Terry Baum; Carolyn Myers | One Dyke’s Theater | Terry Baum’s Dos Lesbos (1981) inspired the first anthology of lesbian plays in the history of the universe–Places, Please!–in 1985. The ten plays i
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen | Draw the Circle | ‘The hilarious and deeply moving story of conservative Muslim mother at her wits’ end, a Muslim father who likes to tell jokes, and a queer American w
Lois Fine | Freda And Jem’s Best of the Week | Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having flings. When she meets Freda, her preconceiv
Anthony Trey | How Black Mothers Say I Love You | ‘Claudette still can’t forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their
Jen Silverman | Collective Rage: a Play in Five Betties | ‘Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. Meanwhile, Betty
Adrienne Rich | Ariadne. a Play in Three Acts And Poems | First edition of the poet’s extremely rare first book, privately printed by her parents when she was just ten years old. Adrienne Rich’s father was th
Jean Genet | The Maids | A play, accomapnied by Deathwatch, another play.
Genet drew the plot of “The Maids” from a 1933 tabloid murder but transformed the true crim
Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing
Jane Chambers | 2 From Chambers | Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and A Late Snow
Lillian Hellman | The Children’s Hour | A rumor of lesbianism (unfounded) wrecks a school, and the lives of the women who own and manage it.