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New Scripts and Play Collections

Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays by Lewis Morrow
Call Number: PS3613.O77852 B58

Publication Date: 2022
...what the end will be by Mansa Ra
Call Number: PS3618.A2 W43

Publication Date: 2023
Clyde's by Lynn Nottage
Call Number: PS3564.O795 C58

Tony Award's Best Play nominee (2022)
Exception to the rule by Dave Harris
Call Number: PS3608.A7823 E93

Publication Date: 2023
English by Sanaz Toossi
Call Number: PS3620.O5865 E54

Publication Date: 2023

Pulitzer Prize in Drama winner (2023)
Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Call Number: PS3560.A2583 G58

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2016)
WE/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority by Debbie Lamedman (Editor)
Call Number: PN4305.M6 W48

Publication Date: 2022
Okinum by Émilie Monnet
Call Number: PQ3919.3.M5594 O4513

Publication Date: 2022

- in three languages--English, French, and Anishnaabemowin
The Minutes by Tracy Letts
Call Number: PS3612.E887 M56

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2018) and Tony Award for Best Play (2022)
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Call Number: PR6069.T6 L46

Publication Date: 2020

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, 2023
Ain't No Mo' by Jordan E. Cooper
Call Number: PS3603.O582658 A36

Publication Date: 2023

Nominated for Tony Award for Best Play (2023)
The Light by Loy A. Webb
Call Number: PS3623.E3897

Publication Date: 2019

The St. Louis Black Repertory Company presented The Light in their 2023 season.
Hangmen by Martin McDonagh
Call Number: PR6063.C377 H36

Publication Date: 2017

New Scores and Vocal Selections

A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (music and lyrics)
Call Number: M1508.J2356 S77

Vocal score (piano with chord symbols).
Songs: Intermission song -- Today -- We wanna know -- Inner white girl -- Didn't want nothin' -- Exile in Gayville -- Second wave -- Tyler Perry writes real life -- A sympathetic ear -- Inwood Daddy -- Boundaries -- Periodically -- Precious little dream/AIDS is God's punishment -- Memory song -- A strange loop
Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (music and lyrics)
Call Number: M1508.M568 H33

Publication Date: 2021

Vocal score (piano with chord symbols).
Songs: Wedding song -- Livin' it up on top -- All I've ever known -- Way down Hadestown -- Hey, little songbird -- When the chips are down -- Wait for me -- Why we build the wall -- Our lady of the underground -- Flowers -- Epic III -- We raise our cups.
Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (music and lyrics)
Call Number: M1508.P32 D43

Publication Date: 2021

Vocal score (piano with chord symbols)
Songs: Waving through a window -- For forever -- Sincerely, me -- Requiem -- If I could tell her -- The anonymous ones -- You will be found -- Only us -- Words fail -- So big/so small -- A little closer -- The anonymous ones
Mean Girls by Nell Benjamin (lyrics), Jeff Richmond (music)
Call Number: M1508.R535 M43

Publication Date: 2019

Vocal score (piano and chord symbols)
Songs:
A cautionary tale -- It roars -- Where do you belong? -- Meet the plastics -- Stupid with love -- Apex predator -- What's wrong with me? -- Sexy -- Someone gets hurt -- Revenge party -- Fearless -- Stop -- More is better -- World burn -- I'd rather be me -- I see stars.
Some Like It Hot: by Marc Shaiman (music & lyrics); Scott Wittman (lyrics)
Call Number: M1508.S5 S6

Vocal score (piano with chord symbols).
Songs: What are you thirsty for? -- You can't have me (if you don't have him) -- Vamp! -- I'm California bound -- A darker shade of blue -- Zee Bap -- At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee -- Poor little millionaire -- Some like it hot -- Let's dance the world away -- Fly, mariposa, fly -- You coulda knocked me over with a feather -- He lied when he said hello -- Ride out the storm -- Baby, let's get good.
Everybody's talking about Jamie by Tom MacRae (lyrics); Dan Gillespie Sells (music)
Call Number: M1508.S456 E94

Vocal score (piano with chord symbols).
Songs: And you don't even know it -- The wall in my head -- Spotlight -- The legend of Loco Chanelle -- If I met myself again -- Everybody's talking about Jamie -- It means beautiful -- Ugly in this ugly world -- He's my boy -- Out of the darkness
The Prom by Chad Beguelin (lyrics), Matthew Sklar (music)
Call Number: M1508.S556 P76

Publication Date: 2019

Vocal score (piano with chord symbols)
Songs: Changing lives -- Just breathe -- It's not about me -- Dance with you -- The acceptance song -- You happened -- We look to you -- Tonight belongs to you -- Zazz -- The lady's improving -- Love thy neighbor -- Alyssa Greene -- Barry is going to prom -- Unruly heart -- It's time to dance.
Six: the Musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (music and lyrics)
Call Number: M1508.S3376 S59

Publication Date: 2020

Vocal score (piano and chord symbols)
Songs: Ex-wives -- No way -- Don't lose ur head -- Heart of stone -- Haus of Holbein -- Get down -- All you wanna do -- I don't need your love -- Six.
Fun Home by Lisa Kron (lyrics); Jeanine Tesori (music)
Call Number: M1508.T47 F86

Vocal score (piano and chord symbols). Songs: It all comes back : opening -- Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue -- Come to the Fun home -- Changing my major -- Maps -- Raincoat of love -- Ring of keys -- Days and days -- Telephone wire -- Edges of the world -- Flying away : (finale) -- Pony girl
The Band's Visit by David Yazbek (music and lyrics)
Vocal score (piano with chord symbols)
Songs: Waiting -- Welcome to nowhere -- It is what it is -- The beat of your heart -- Soraya -- Omar Sharif -- Papi hears the ocean -- Haled's song about love -- Something different -- Itzik's lullaby -- Answer me.