Ebook: Regional Best 2011: nine plays with premiers at regional theaters

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; The Pie Dialogues; Alien Hand Syndrome; Besides, you lose your soul or the History of Western Civilization; Laying Off; Safe; The Boston Forty-Nine Flamingo; Causa Mortis or The Medical Student; Small Things; The Sweet Abyss.;According to a 2008 NEA report, 2,000 regional theaters in the U.S. were presenting plays and musicals to over 58 million audience members each year. A significant percentage of this work was new plays, often written by playwrights living outside of New York City. Regional Best is a collection of nine of the best of those plays, each of which premiered regionally but with national and international quality.