A feminist meditation book written with a light touch, but a deep politic. In the words of feminist philosopher Mary Daly, " It is a work of burning, uncompromising vision and daring... a beacon of hope in these chilling times of compromise, timidity and apparent defeat. This book is Pure Fire."

Nine of Gage's most popular one-act plays, including: Bite My Thumb, Patricide, Jane Addams and the Devil Baby, Battered on Broadway, Louisa May Incest, The Rules of the Playground, The Obligatory Scene, The Pele Chant, and Entr'acte, or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped.

A collection of three award-winning, full-length comedies by Carolyn Gage: The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, Sappho in Love, and Thanatron.

Finally A book for lesbians who are tired of "passing" at auditions and in acting classes and workshops Here at last, from one of the most talented and inventive contemporary playwrights, is a book of thirty-two monologues and sixty scenes by, for, and about lesbians. This collection includes scenes with characters taken from lesbian history: Jane Addams, Charlotte Cushman, Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane, Sappho, Babe Didrikson, Benedetta Carlini, Renee Vivien, Natalie Barney, and Eva LeGallienne. It also includes women from history whose sexual orientation may or may not have been documented,...

..". a classic in every feminist's library."-Sacramento Arts and Entertainment Examiner. A collection of four short stories and one full-length play about lesbian goddesses, princesses and woman princes, super-heroines, and fairy godmothers Becca and the Woman Prince: A European princess meets an African woman prince in this romantic, multicultural, feminist fairy tale The Princess of Pain: A woman struggling with disabilty sets out on a ten-goddess quest for answers. Illustrated by Sudie Rakusin The Furies: Three lesbian super-heroines debate the wisdom of accepting a young survivor into...

Gages award-winning collection of plays, including The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman, The Parmachene Belle, Cookin with Typhoid Mary, Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist, Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, and Artemisia and Hildegard. National winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Drama.

A collection of ten of Gage's hardest-hitting one-act plays, including: Black Eye, The Ladies' Room, The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Millennial Gold-diggers, A Labor Play, Heterosexuals Anonymous, The Boundary Trial of John Proctor, The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide, The Gage and Mr. Comstock, The P.E. Teacher, and The Rules of the Playground.

Stigmata dramatizes the rise and fall of the 17th century, Italian nun, Benedetta Carlini, who becomes elected abbess on the strength of her miraculous manifestation of stigmata, and who is eventually tried by the Inquisition for perpetrating a hoax, as well as committing "peccatum mutum"-- the so-called "silent sin" of homosexuality.

The show is a big, brassy, full-cast, mainstage musical, featuring a high school gymnasium dance and beauty pageant, a choreographed jazz interpretation of a women's basketball game, a pajama party on the Olympic train, a tango at the country club, and one of the most stunning love duets in musical theatre. Numbers include "Let the Boys Lead the Dance," "Raise the Bar ," "Readin' the Green," and Babe's theme song, "Winning Makes Up for It All." Sample of songs at www.myspace.com/babeanolympicmusical.

This is a one-woman show about the playwrights experiences of hitchhiking through America in the early 1970s-specifically about hitchhiking from Boulder to Los Angeles, to San Francisco and back with another woman in the summer of 1973. In this tale of lost lesbian love,Gage incorporates the tales of other women crossing the "Rapelands" of the West: Sacajawea, Janis Joplin, Thelma and Louise, and the Women of the Oregon Trail.