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Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde by Konstanti Rudnitsky Synopsis An account of the extraordinary developments of the Russian theatre from the first decade of the 20th century up to 1932. These fruitful years saw an aesthetic revolution during which directors, designers, playwrights and artists responded to Lenin's... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook Publisher Comments First published in 1968, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre, from perhaps the most influential director of the twentieth century. In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity by Margaret Llewellyn-jones Synopsis Exploring the works of Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness, Tom Murphy, and Thomas Kilroy, the author presents an introduction on the historical context of Irish culture, with particular attention being paid to the works performed in the 1990s.... (read more) Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Theater by Eric Bentley Publisher Comments This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Siege of the Arts by Robert Brustein Publisher Comments In this new gathering of his work, the celebrated critic, theatre director, and playwright expands on a theme he first developed in his influential essay "The Decline of Culture." Mr. Brustein turns his witty, penetrating, and sometimes scathing gaze on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent by Anthony Rapp Publisher Comments Anthony Rapp captures the passion and grit unique to the theatre world as he recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent. Anthony had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet Publisher Comments The purpose of theater, like magic like religion…ids to inspire cleansing awe. With bracing directness and aphoristic authority, one of our greatest living playwrights addresses the questions: What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flowering Spirit: Classic Teachings on the Art of No by Zeami Publisher Comments The Flowering Spirit is a new translation of Fushikaden, the 15thcentury classic text by Zeami, founder of the No theater. Written sometime between 1400 and 1418, Fushikaden became a secret, sought-after guide to life for Zeamis acting troupe. Not until... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Haunted Theaters: Playhouse Phantoms, Opera House Horrors, and Backstage Banshees by Tom Ogden Publisher Comments Haunted Theaters comprises more than two dozen suspenseful stories of spooky happenings and ghostly tales in historic theaters, opera houses, and other stages in the United States (Broadway and beyond), Canada, and England. Some of the spirits are actors;... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (06 Edition) by R. Knapp Publisher Comments "Knapp speaks with an original voice and offers fresh perspectives. This will be regarded as one of the major books in the field."--Geoffrey Block, University of Puget Sound, General Editor, Yale Broadway Masters "This extraordinary, original book leaves... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Essential Theatre by Oscar Gros Brockett Book News Annotation A textbook for either an introductory course for theater majors, or a course on theater appreciation for non majors. Undergraduate level. Latest edition, 1988; first published 1976. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $64.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Monkey Business Theatre by Robert M. Laughlin Publisher Comments In 1983, a group of citizens in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, formed Sna Jtz'ibajom, the Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya writers' cooperative. In the two decades since, this group has evolved from writing and publishing bilingual booklets to writing and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Theater Voices: Conversations on the Stage by Steve Capra Publisher Comments This collection of interviews with twenty-six leaders of the stage explores their personal visions of the theater. By representing a wide range of disciplines--directors, actors, playwrights, critics, and teachers--the book allows for a variety of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists by Herbert H Keyser Publisher Comments This volume collects, for the first time, 28 biographies of the greatest songwriters and lyricists of Broadway musicals. It goes below the surface to see what made them tick and to uncover the secrets of their success - as well as the personal foibles... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Open Door (93 Edition) by Peter Brook Publisher Comments From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Irish Drama & Cultural Identity by Margaret Llewellyn-Jones Publisher Comments Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the... (read more) List Price $31.96 Your price: $28.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture #80: Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre by Rena Fraden Publisher Comments During the 1930s the Work Progress Administration funded the Federal Theater Project to sustain unemployed theatrical workers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major urban centers, employing over 12,000 people and presenting countless... (read more) List Price $163.50 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook by Richard Drain Publisher Comments "Twentieth Century Theatre" is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners-- directors, playwrights... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America by Stefan Kanfer Publisher Comments An in-depth study of the history of Yiddish theater in America follows it from its origins in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, its journey to the Lower East Side of New York in 1910s and 1920s with Jewish immigrants, and its ultimate decline in the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies by Lauren Redniss Publisher Comments The Ziegfeld Follies, Florenz Ziegfeld's stage spectaculars, promised the best performers, the most lavish sets, and the most ravishing girls. Doris Eaton Travis was one of these prized beauties–and, at 14, was chosen as the youngest chorus girl in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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