"Four playlets, each of which takes places in a suite of the Beverly Hills Hotel, comprise this wacky comedy: 'Visitors from New York'--in which a divorced couple (he's now California macrobiotic and she's New York business-executive chic) meet to discuss their daughter's future. 'Visitors from Philadelphia'--in which a family man in town for his nephew's bar mitzvah wakes up to find a very drunk call girl (thoughtfully supplied by his brother-in-law)...

Rita desperately hungers for an education. To escape her dreary life as a hairdresser and confining existence at home, she enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university. Despite her husband's resentment, Rita learns and grows.

In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into a man and a woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates. From her turf battles at the supermarket to the desperate clichés of self-affirmation he learns at his "personality workshop," they run the gamut of everyday life's small brutalizations until they meet, with disastrous inevitability, at the Harmonic Convergence in Central Park. Daisy, of Baby With the Bathwater, struggles...

This 1942 play became a 1945 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The main characters in this romantic comedy are a lonely widow, Jamie Rowan, and military scientist, Patrick Jamieson. Rowan decides to help the war effort by marrying Jamieson who has set up a research lab in her house. Based on prior experience (good and bad), both believe that marriage can succeed without love. Naturally, the two fall in love.

"The Day Room", Don DeLillo's first play, is a black comedy that explores the chaos caused when the onlooker is unsure of the status of a team of medics in a psychiatric unit. Are they really bona fide staff or patients just pretending to be?

The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives.--imdb.com. "In a small-town dime store in West Texas, the "Disciples of James Dean" gather for their twentieth reunion. Now middle-aged women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed Giant two decades ago in nearby Marfa. One of them, an extra in the film, has a child whom...

The wealthy heirs of a wealthy but ailing old man named Sidney Holloway have purchased the Wild Moose Lodge in the Adirondacks as a place for daddy to live out his last days. During an innocuous game of "murder" suggested by one of the clan, mousey young Lorraine Holloway is murdered for real. Who done it? Could it have been the legendary "Butcher Moose" which haunts the mountains? Or, is it a member (or members) of the eccentric Holloway family itself?...