TCG Publishes Suzan-Lori Parks' THE BOOK OF GRACE

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced the publication of The Book of Grace by Suzan-Lori Parks. The play premiered at The Public Theater in New York City in the spring of 2010, with subsequent productions in 2011 at the ZACH Theatre in Austin and Company One Theatre in Boston.

Encouraged by his stepmother to return home to South Texas, a young man reunites with his abusive father, unearthing an explosive combination of deep-seated passion and ambition. Written by Suzan-Lori Parks as a companion piece to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, this fierce and intimate three-person drama is published with the playwright's final, revised text.

In 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog. Her other plays include Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, f-ing A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, and The America Play. In 2007, her 365 Days/365 Plays was produced in more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Ms. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and Master Writer Chair at The Public Theater.

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