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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Introduction To Play Analysis (05 Edition) by Cal Pritner About the Author Cal Pritner began teaching in Kansas City public schools; after serving in the military, he earned MA and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois, Urbana. As a theatre professor he has taught at: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Illinois... (read more) List Price $44.10 Your price: $36.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Publisher Comments When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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On Directing Film by David Mamet Publisher Comments Calling on this unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies, House Of Games and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing — from... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Creative Spirit: an Introduction To Theatre (5TH 11 Edition) by Stephanie Arnold Publisher Comments Focusing on the collaborative and creative processes that go into productions, The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre introduces students to the theatre through the plays themselves and the people who write them, create them, and act in them... (read more) List Price $120.65 Your price: $97.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Essential Theatre (10TH 11 Edition) by Oscar G. Brockett Publisher Comments Whether you are a theatre major looking forward to a career in the arts, or a non major interested in an overview to help you better appreciate theatre as an audience member, THE ESSENTIAL THEATRE is a welcome and helpful resource. Written by highly... (read more) List Price $139.40 Your price: $112.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks Publisher Comments A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks's latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, forettling a lifetime... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Colored Museum (88 Edition) by Michael Wolfe Synopsis The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven "exhibits" undermine black stereotypes old and new, and return to the facts of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon : Two Plays (81 Edition) by Frank Chin Publisher Comments Book of Plays: The Year of the Dragon barges through the comfortable stereotypes of the Asian American-the quiet, hardworking contented character who keeps to himself, rarely bothering the white community. It is not an 'easy' play. The language is... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fences (86 Edition) by August Wilson Synopsis Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Italian Comedy (66 Edition) by Pierre L. Duchartre Publisher Comments Illustrated history of the beginnings, growth and influence of the commedia dell arte. Describes improvisations, staging, marks, scenarios, acting troupes, and origins.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Theatre : a Concise History, Updated (3RD 98 Edition) by Phyllis Hartnoll Publisher Comments Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, worldwide in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gem of the Ocean (05 Edition) by August Wilson Publisher Comments “No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker “A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Stages of Drama : Classical To Contemporary Theater (5TH 03 Edition) by Carl H. Klaus Publisher Comments With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays — Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the... (read more) List Price $102.50 Your price: $83.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare's Stagecraft (67 Edition) by J. L. Styan Publisher Comments For many years, critics and students of Shakespeare have tended to stress that his plays are poetic structures embodying 'themes', and these structures have been analysed in great detail. Professor Styan advocates another approach. The plays were written... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Theatre, Brief Version (9TH 11 Edition) by Robert Cohen Publisher Comments This lively introduction to theatre offers equal measures of appreciation of theatrical arts and descriptions of the collaborative theatrical crafts. The author's enthusiasm for and knowledge of the current theatre, highlighted by contemporary production... (read more) List Price $137.95 Your price: $91.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom : a Play (85 Edition) by August Wilson Publisher Comments The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blues for Mister Charlie (95 Edition) by James Baldwin Publisher Comments In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone (90 Edition) by August Wilson Synopsis Drama / Casting: 6m, 5f / Scenery: Interior Sets Set in a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author's series chronicling black life in each decade of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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