New Collection PLAYS FOR THREE to Celebrate Release at Drama Book Shop Next Week

The Drama Book Shop will host Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, editors of the new collection, Plays For Three. The evening will feature readings, discussions and signings.

Lane and Shengold will be joined by playwrights Rob Ackerman, Pete Barry, Catherine Filloux, Amlin Gray, Kitt Lavoie, Anna Moench, A. Rey Pamatmat and performers Jeanine T. Abraham, Stuart Green, Anna O'Donoghue and Andy Reinhardt.

Plays For Three, priced $18.95, is a unique anthology of 23 outstanding plays for three actors by an exciting mix of established and emerging playwrights. Everyone's heard that Two's company, three's a crowd. That may be true on a date, but on stage, three is a magic number. Add a third character to any interaction and the dramatic possibilities increase exponentially: suddenly there's competition, intrigue, shifting allegiances, comic misunderstandings, secrets and lies. Triangles make excellent drama, and three-handers offer the kind of substantial and challenging roles that actors love. "Plays for Three" offers six full-length and seventeen short plays featuring dramatic trios of every sort.

Eric Lane and Nina Shengold are editors of twelve contemporary play collections. Their other titles for Vintage Books include "Plays for Actresses, Leading Women: Plays for Actresses II, Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, Take Ten II: More Ten-Minute Plays, Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation, "and "Talk to Me: Monologue Plays. "For Viking Penguin, they edited "The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues, The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays, Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays, The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays "(Lambda Literary Award nominee), and "Telling Tales: New One-Act Plays."

The Tony Award-winning Drama Book Shop, currently celebrating its 99th Anniversary, is located at 250 West 40th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues. For more info, visit www.dramabookshop.com.