For more than 25 years, Paul Rudnick’s plays have been making America split its stitches in laughter. Now, this collection of his plays will remind readers far and wide of the great influence that Rudnick’s comedic timing has had on the world of American theater.

Here are I Hate Hamlet, the play that marked Rudnick’s onstage beginning and that forms the basis of his unforgettable, New Yorker-excerpted essay “I Hit Hamlet;” Jeffrey, the long-running Off-Broadway smash about gay life during the aftermath of the AIDS crisis in the early ‘90s—and the basis for the hit film starring Patrick Stewart, Steven Weber, and Nathan Lane; and three other onstage smashes filled with Rudnick’s signature rapier wit.

The Collected Plays of Paul Rudnick is a must-have item for any fan of this theatrical master —and a necessary addition to all courses in dramatic literature.