Books by Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman's early plays include Passing By, Cracks and Rio Grande, all originally presented by Playwrights Horizons in New York. Bent premiered at the Royal Court in 1979, transferred to the Criterion Theatre and was then presented on Broadway, where it received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won the Dramatist Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. It has been voted one of the NT2000 One Hundred Plays of the Century. His next plays were Messiah (1983), When She Danced (1988), A Madhouse in Goa (1989), Some Sunny Day (1996) and Rose (1999). Rose received an Olivier nomination for Best Play and transferred to Broadway the following season. Sherman has written an adaptation of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India for Shared Experience (2002) and a new version of a Luigi Pirandello play, Absolutely! (Perhaps) (2003). Sherman Plays: 1 was published by Methuen Drama in 2004.