Cost of Living

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Cost of Living delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, ability, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after becoming quadriplegic in an accident. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent Princeton graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide.

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Sanctuary City

In post-9/11 Newark, NJ, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally remain in the country and pursue the future he imagines for his life. But as time hurtles on and complications mount, the young friends find that this act challenges and fractures the closest relationship either has ever had.

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Ironbound

At a bus stop in a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant cleaning lady, is done talking about feelings; it’s time to talk money. Over the course of 20 years, three relationships, and three presidencies, Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security, but never both. A darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a woman for whom love is a luxury—and a liability—as she fights to survive in America.

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Queens

The lives of two generations of immigrant women collide across time in a basement apartment in Queens. When Renia first arrived here, she found a group of women who, like her, uprooted their lives and arrived in America with nothing. Now the landlord, Renia finds herself face to face with a young woman on a search who forces her to question anew the costs of leaving one home for the tenuous promise of another. Epic, personal, and political, Queens explores the price of American progress for women, the pasts we run from, the dreams of futures we run towards, and the people who shepherd us along the way.

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