About the Plays:

In this edition of John Patrick Shanley's complete plays, you will encounter one of America's major dramatists in all his many expressive incarnations and moods. His restless poetic spirit takes refuge in a whole array of forms; he impatiently prowls the aisles of comedy, melodrama, tragedy and farce as he forges an alloy all his own.

13 by Shanley is a collection of plays by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Moonstruck including:
• The Big Funk (Cast: 2 female, 3 male),
• Savage in Limbo (Cast: 3 female, 2 male),
• Danny and The Deep Blue Sea (Cast: 1 female, 1 male),
• Welcome to the Moon (Cast: 1 female, 4 male),
• The Red Coat (Cast: 1 female, 1 male),
• Down and Out (Cast: 1 female, 2 male),
• Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night,
• Out West (Cast: 1 female, 1 male),
• A Lonely Impulse of Delight (Cast: 2 male),
• Women of Manhattan (Cast: 3 female, 2 male),
• The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Cast: 1 female, 2 male),
• Italian-American Reconciliation (Cast: 2 female, 3 male), and
• Beggars in the House of Plenty (Cast: 3 female, 2 male),
• Also includes an introduction by John Patrick Shanley.

About the Playwright:

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Shanley has written some two dozen off-Broadway plays since the 1970s, but he is best known for Doubt, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. He has also written extensively for TV and film, and his credits include the teleplay for Live from Baghdad and screenplays for Five Corners and Moonstruck, for which he won an Academy Award for original screenplay.