John Patrick Shanley

This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about stubborn moral certainty in the face of a lack of firm evidence – a big hit on Broadway. Chosen as the best play of the year by over ten newspapers and magazines, Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with her conscience in the face...

"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx... Prodigal Son is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath jokes and banter." -- Davide Cote, Time Out New York "Shanley chooses characters stretched to the breaking point between rage and love... His...