Page Against the Machine Book Group (November 2025 Theme)

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For November 2025, we're reading plays. Any drama, comedy, play of your choice.


Updated October 7, 2025
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84, Charing Cross Road
Roose-Evans, James.
Paper Book
This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949...
Appropriate ; An octoroon
Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden
Paper Book
Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers. In Appropriate, strained...
Death of a salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paper Book
Reprint of the 1967 ed. published by Viking Press, New York.
Desdemona : a play about a handkerchief
Vogel, Paula.
Paper Book
THE STORY: Having slept with Othello's entire encampment, Desdemona revels in her bawdy tales of conquest. Her foils and rapt listeners are the other integral and re-imagined women of this Shakespeare tragedy: Emilia, Desdemona's servant and the wi
Fences : a play
Wilson, August.
Paper Book
From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone...
Gray's anatomy
Gray, Spalding
Paper Book
In middle age Spalding Gray has entered "the Bermuda Triangle of Health," that place where the body begins to break down in alarming and humiliating ways. His immediate problem is an eye complaint that could be corrected with minor surgery. But for the high priest of high anxiety, nothing is ever...
Heroes and saints & other plays
Moraga, Cherr
Paper Book
Heroes and Saints & Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrí¬e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: Shadow of a Man, winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; Heroes and Saints, winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle...
Hurlyburly : a play
Rabe, David.
Paper Book
Full Length, Drama Characters: 4 male, 3 female Interior Set This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller. Characters nose...
Lanford Wilson : 21 short plays
Wilson, Lanford
Paper Book
Long day's journey into night
O'Neill, Eugene
Paper Book
Lost in Yonkers
Simon, Neil.
Paper Book
"Neil Simon has done it again, with a craftmanship and skill probably unmatched in the contemporary English-speaking theater." -Clive Barnes, New York Post What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question that lies at the heart of this funny and heartrending play by one of...
M. Butterfly
Hwang, David Henry
Paper Book
Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government-and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song...
Moon over Buffalo : a comedy
Ludwig, Ken.
Paper Book
A perfect Ganesh
McNally, Terrence.
Paper Book
The perfectionist and other plays
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
Prelude to a kiss
Lucas, Craig.
Paper Book
Sixteen short plays
Horovitz, Israel.
Paper Book
Speed-the-plow : a play
Mamet, David.
Paper Book
Full Length Dramatic Comedy / 2m 1f / 2 ints. Revived on Broadway in 2008 the original production starred Joe Mantegna Ron Silver and Madonna in this hilarious satire of Hollywood a culture as corrupt as the society it claims to reflect. Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a currently hot...
Three tall women : a play in two acts
Albee, Edward
Paper Book
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for best play, as well as a number of other prestigious awards, Three Tall Woman has been called Albee's finest achievement. In his triumphant return to the New York and London stages, Albee demonstrates insight and vision with a moving look at mortality. Stunning ....
Two trains running
Wilson, August.
Paper Book
Set during the civil rights movement, at the lunch counter of Memphis Lee's diner.
Vital signs : a play
Martin, Jane.
Paper Book
Monologues / Characters: 2 male (optional) 6 f Scenery: Bare stage The author of Talking With and other hits has never been funnier or more compelling than in this suite of theatrical miniatures over thirty two minute monologues. The two men in the cast are optional foils for the six...

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