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Ghost Light: A Memoir by Frank Rich Publisher Comments There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Elf Girl by Rev Jen Publisher Comments Meet Rev Jen. Patron saint of the uncool. Cheerleader for nonconformists, geeks, and oddballs the world over. From her tiny rent-controlled apartment on Manhattans hip Lower East Side, she holds court over a wacky cast of friends and lovers with an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man (Vintage) by John Heilpern Publisher Comments John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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J. M. Barrie and the Theatre by H.M. Walbrook Synopsis Since 1902, the year of the production of The Admirable Critchon, Sir J. M. Barrie has been one of the most interesting figures in the British Theatre. No other dramatist has given so much delight to so many people and at the same time lived so apart... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Luigi Pirandello (Bloom's Major Dramatists) by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-145) and index.... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Moliere: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott Publisher Comments Molière's long-lost trunk of letters and manuscripts has yet to be found amidst the dust of some Parisian attic, but in spite of that, a story of his life can be told from documentary evidence, reminiscence, gossip and innuendo, and inferences from... (read more) List Price $120.25 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee Publisher Comments Gypsy Rose Lees memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir by Bob Smith Publisher Comments Smith gracefully weaves the stories of his bittersweet childhood and his life's work with illuminating passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. A brilliant reminder of the redemptive power of literature, it will make readers fall in love with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arthur Miller: 1962-2005 by Christopher Bigsby Publisher Comments "This second half of Christopher Bigsby's masterly and illuminating biography has all the virtues of the first. Rich in compelling detail, comprehensive in its coverage of his subject's private and public life, it tells Miller's tale with a fine... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Samuel Beckett: Playwright & Poet by Christopher Murray Publisher Comments With a tree, a country road, and two tramps waiting haplessly for a Godot who never comes, Samuel Beckett epitomized for theatergoers around the world the at-once comical and terrifying condition of being human in an uncertain universe. He would follow... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone by Shirley Gordon Jackson Publisher Comments Before playwright Charles Gordone (1925–1995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for No Place to Be Somebody, in 1970. His search for a home in the West led him in 1987 to Texas A&M... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by John Lahy Synopsis Critic Kenneth Tynan, the impresario who created "Oh Calcutta", was also an eccentric and connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. His diaries record a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics.... (read more) Your price: $7.48 Used - Hardcover
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Arthur Miller: His Life and Work by Martin Gottfried Publisher Comments Arthur Miller has been delivering powerful drama to the stage for decades with such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. But, remarkably, no one has yet told the full story of Miller's own extraordinary life... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Notebooks by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments Meticulously edited and annotated, Tennessee Williams's notebooks follow his growth as a writer from his undergraduate days to the publication and production of his most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness to the heights of his literary... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Hardcover
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott Publisher Comments With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott pioneered sizzle history (USA Today). Now she returns with the gripping and expansive story of America's coming-of-age — told through the extraordinary life of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Stephen Sondheim: A Life by Meryle Secrest Publisher Comments In the first full-scale life of the most important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, with Love and Laughter by Sid Caesar Publisher Comments The legendary television star tells the backstage stories of the classic comedy of YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, CAESAR'S HOUR. and other landmark programs It is no exaggeration to say that without Sid Caesar, comedy in America would have been a lot less funny. He... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Letters of Noel Coward (Vintage) by Noel Coward Publisher Comments Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from Coward provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cousins: A Memoir by Athol Fugard Publisher Comments In Cousins, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written his most moving and personal work to date. Illustrated with numerous family photographs, this deceptively simple memoir examines the author's life from his earliest childhood memories through... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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