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PERESTROIKA & The "Plays Are Literature Campaign." Collected plays by LUCY WANG, JON SPANO, BARBARA ALFARO

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TCG, Theatre Communications Group, published Tony Kushner's  PERESTROIKA , the second part of Angels of America in 1994 .  Would   book reviewers mention a book of this play, a huge cultural breakthrough?  As a book publicist and playwright, I was excited about this idea, as was the publisher, who created The "Plays are Literature Campaign." Packages of books with materals supporting this book as literature were sent. A couple weeks later, I began my follow-up. Was the exclusion of published playscripts arbitrary? "Everyone knows,  plays are only reviewed  in performance." But in England, play scripts in books are reviewed.  Some are reviewed both IN PERFORMANCE and when the book is published. Why? Playscripts are accepted, like poetry, as a form of  LITERATURE!  The   Plays are Literature Campaign  showed Angels in America was a  unique literary achievement published in two books.   Perestroika was a worthy exc...