num_pages: 145
description: The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day. The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal musical flow. In the resulting mosaic each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what they are or wish they were becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes.
language: English
title: The Hot L Baltimore: A Play
titlecomplete: The Hot L Baltimore: A Play (Mermaid Dramabook)
genres: Plays, Drama, Theatre
ratings_count: 270
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Obie
category: Best American Play
publisher: Hill & Wang