Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the national organization for theater, founded in 1961, and North America’s largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature – has announced that the TCG Books Play Collection is now live on Drama Online with 110 titles, and will be completed with a further 90 titles later in 2022.
“TCG Books has always believed that plays are literature, deserving of the same care and attention as novels, poetry, and other forms of the written word,” said Teresa Eyring, Executive Director and CEO of TCG. “By partnering with Drama Online, we can help bring the extraordinary work of these writers to new generations of theater students and scholars, expanding the dramatic canon.”
Developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber & Faber, Drama Online’s award-winning digital library was created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. The fast-growing study resource now features over 3,500 play texts from 1,300 playwrights, over 400 audio plays, 365 hours of video, and 450 scholarly books from leading theater publishers and companies. Offering a complete multimedia experience – available on subscription and purchase by institutions only – the platform presents users with a unique opportunity for reading, watching, or listening to a play in the same digital space.
When complete, the TCG Play Collection will include work by Seth Barrish, Thomas Bradshaw, Eric Bogosian, Alice Childress, Ping Chong, Nilo Cruz, Culture Clash, Larissa FastHorse, Richard Foreman, Athol Fugard, Spalding Gray, Philip Kan Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Tina Howe, Lisa Kron, Tony Kushner, Young Jean Lee, Tracy Letts, Romulus Linney, David Mamet, Richard Maxwell, Martyna Mayok, Ellen McLaughlin, Dominique Morisseau, Richard Nelson, Lynn Nottage, John O’Neal, Dael Orlandersmith, Adam Rapp, José Rivera, Sarah Ruhl, Carl Hancock Rux, Heidi Schreck, Donna Walker-Kuhne, Naomi Wallace, Anne Washburn, and Michael Weller, and translations of Russian dramatists from Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky.