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Coward Plays: 7: Quadrille; 'Peace in Our Time'; Tonight at 8.30 (World Classics) by Noel Coward Publisher Comments The Seventh volume in the Coward Collection. On Quadrille: "Miss Fontanne plays the madcap Marchioness with the crackle and sheen of a five-pound note. Her eyes mock marvelously, her voice cuts like a knife into a wedding cake, and the scene in Act... (read more) Available March 2012 Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Coward Plays: 6: Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude with Violin (World Classics) by Noel Coward Publisher Comments Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and reconciliations: sexual deviance is... (read more) Available March 2012 Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Collected Plays (Methuen Drama) by Noel Coward Publisher Comments The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'll Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to be produced. These were, as he said, enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks... (read more) Available March 2012 Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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Brecht Collected Plays: 8: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress (World Classics) by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments This collection includes the first English translation of two Brecht plays. Volume 8 contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE (1948) is a... (read more) Available March 13, 2012 Your price: $38.50 New - Hardcover
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History of Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett Publisher Comments Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Updated in this 11th edition, Brockett and Hildy’s History of Theatre, is the most comprehensive and widely used survey of theatre history in the market. This eleventh edition retains all... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $85.25 New - Trade Paper
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Chinglish by David Henry Hwang Publisher Comments "Marvelous . . . the conceit is elegantly of a piece, yet Hwang is able to keep turning it in on itself to reveal new ambiguities, absurdities, subversions and paradoxes."—Chicago Reader "Hwang's plays collectively chart the evolving... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2008-2009 (Best Plays Theater Yearbook) by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins Publisher Comments Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1920, this annual chronicle of the theater in the United States honors 10 new works and three regional plays cited in the Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Awards and Citations competition. With this latest... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $49.99 New - Hardcover
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A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening by Steven Sater Publisher Comments In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Fruhlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater... (read more) Available March 2012 Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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Manifestos and Essays by Richard Foreman Publisher Comments "Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation These writings, collected from two earlier books... (read more) Available April 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Stage Management by Lawrence Stern Publisher Comments Updated in its 10th edition, Stage Management offers readers a practical manual on how to stage manage in all theatre environments. Revered as the authoritative resource for stage management, this text is rich with practical resources, including... (read more) Available February 2012 Your price: $80.75 New - Trade Paper
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Stage Directing: A Director's Itinerary by Michael Wainstein Publisher Comments With Stage Directing: A Director's Itinerary, the student of theatrical directing now has a step-by-step guide to directing a production, from choosing a play to opening night. Unlike other directing textbooks, this practical guidebook provides... (read more) Available February 2012 Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Veil by Conor Mcpherson Publisher Comments "McPherson is quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation."—The New York Times "A theatrical spellbinder with a natural gift for storytelling . . . there is no mistaking the unsentimental passion that makes McPherson such a redemptive... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Othello and Interpretive Traditions (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) by Edward Pechter Synopsis During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what... (read more) Available March 2012 Your price: $29.25 New - Trade Paper
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Don Gil of the Green Breeches: Don Gil de Las Calzas Verdes - 1615 (Hispanic Classics: Golden-Age Drama) by Tirso De Molina Publisher Comments Tirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works. Don Gil of the Green Breeches as befits a high farce is much concerned with... (read more) Available February 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Theatre for Beginners by Richard Maxwell Publisher Comments "One of the few truly original experimental theater auteurs to emerge in New York during the past decade."—The New York Times "Maxwell has carved out a unique place for himself in experimental theater. . .paring down language and gesture so... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Undesirable Elements: Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater by Ping Chong Publisher Comments "The cumulative power of these shared stories is nothing short of astonishing. Ping Chong creates a tremendous tapestry of lives."—Twin Cities Reader This three-piece volume of Undesirable Elements, the community-specific theater works series,... (read more) Available April 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal Publisher Comments A fully researched history of The National Theatre, this invaluable new publication covers its origins, the difficulties of its official opening during the strike-ridden days of the 1970s, and the different approaches of its artistic directors. Daniel... (read more) Available March 2012 Your price: $53.25 New - Hardcover
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New Technologies and the Media (Key Concerns in Media Studies) by Gerard Goggin Publisher Comments Explaining the key theories of technology and media, this book cuts through the jargon and tech-speak to provide a guide to the dynamics of digital technologies. Combining a keen sense of media history as well as up-to-the-minute case studies, the author... (read more) Available April 24, 2012 Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater by Mike Thomas Publisher Comments Since its modest beginning in 1959, The Second City in Chicago has become a world-renowned bastion of hilarity. A training ground for many of todays top comedic talents—including Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Bill Murray... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse by Denis Johnson Publisher Comments Two plays—hilarious and searing in equal measure—by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, Denis Johnson has explored the story of America—especially of the West... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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