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The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays
The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays
by Martin Mcdonagh
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These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest complains, God Himself seems to have no jurisdiction there. The Beauty Queen of Leenane portrays ancient, manipulative Mag and her... (read more)

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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts: Deluxe Modern Classic
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts: Deluxe Modern Classic
by Thornton Wilder
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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most... (read more)

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Wilco: Sunken Treasure
Wilco: Sunken Treasure
by Tim Grierson
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Here is the story of Wilco, a Chicago based band that has evolved from a country-rock act into an eclectic indie-rock collective that touches on many eras and genres in its music: 70s rock, Beach Boys-style pop, noise-rock and folk.  No two Wilco... (read more)

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Acrobaddict
Acrobaddict
by Joe Putignano
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Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center to homeless shelters to shooting heroin on the job to being declared dead. This story goes beyond addiction. It is about the fragility and tenacity of the human... (read more)

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Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B-Movie
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B-Movie
by Chris Nashawaty
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  Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger Corman—one of the most prolific and successful independent producers, directors, and writers of all time, and self... (read more)

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Beautiful Province (Yale Drama)
Beautiful Province (Yale Drama)
by Clarence Coo
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A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coos mesmerizing new... (read more)

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Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (Readers in Theatre Practices)
Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (Readers in Theatre Practices)
by Scott Palmer
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How has light influenced the staging of theatre throughout history?What does light contribute to performance?How does it make meaning?This collection explores the creative potential of light in the theatre. Through a wide range of extracts from... (read more)

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Skin Tight (Modern Plays)
Skin Tight (Modern Plays)
by Gary Henderson
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I'm not afraid, Tom. Sooner or later your life becomes parched. Its rivers run thin. Its mountains have melted into the distance as blue and cool as memories.An ordinary couple with an extraordinary love relive their darkest secrets, deepest passions and... (read more)

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Creating Musical Theatre: Conversations with Broadway Directors and Choreographers
Creating Musical Theatre: Conversations with Broadway Directors and Choreographers
by Lyn Cramer
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Creating Musical Theatre features interviews with the directors and choreographers that make up today's Broadway elite. From Susan Stroman and Kathleen Marshall to newcomers Andy Blankenbuehler and Christopher Gattelli, this book features twelve creative... (read more)

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Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (Readers in Theatre Practices)
Light: Readings in Theatre Practice (Readers in Theatre Practices)
by Scott Palmer
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How has light influenced the staging of theatre throughout history?What does light contribute to performance?How does it make meaning?This collection explores the creative potential of light in the theatre. Through a wide range of extracts from... (read more)

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Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre
Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre
by Ethan Mordden
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Ethan Mordden has been hailed as "a sharp-eared listener and a discerning critic," by Opera News, which compares his books to "dinner with a knowledgeable, garrulous companion." The "preeminent historian of the American musical" (New York Times), he... (read more)

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)
by Jonathan F. S. Post
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both... (read more)

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Creating Musical Theatre: Conversations with Broadway Directors and Choreographers
Creating Musical Theatre: Conversations with Broadway Directors and Choreographers
by Lyn Cramer
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Creating Musical Theatre features interviews with the directors and choreographers that make up today's Broadway elite. From Susan Stroman and Kathleen Marshall to newcomers Andy Blankenbuehler and Christopher Gattelli, this book features twelve creative... (read more)

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The Moth
The Moth
by Catherine Burns
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For the first time in print, celebrated storytelling phenomenon The Moth presents fifty spellbinding, soul-bearing stories selected from their extensive archive (fifteen-plus years and 10,000-plus stories strong). Inspired by friends telling stories on a... (read more)

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Hamlet
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
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To be or not to be?Hamlet is, arguably, Shakespeare's most well-known play, with its compelling lead character, stunning language, and philosophical underpinnings. This drama of the procrastinating Danish prince who ponders whether or not to revenge his... (read more)

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A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
by Alice Kessler Harris
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sLillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter... (read more)

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Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
by Patrick Carnegy
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"...one of the most marvellous books I have read this year...Patrick Carnegy recounts with deep scholarship combined with good humour, Wagner's obsession with special effects."---A.N. Wilson, The Daily Telegraph Rupert Christiansen - The... (read more)

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Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arth (Vintage)
Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arth (Vintage)
by Stella Adler
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Stella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark... (read more)

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Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics
by Lincoln (edt) Dahlberg
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Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics offers a systematic examination of the relationship between post-Marxist discourse theory and critical media politics. The volume interrogates discourse theory - as read via the work of Ernesto Laclau and... (read more)

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
by Christopher Durang
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Winner of the 2013 Tony Award® for Best Play Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Play Winner of the Drama League Award for Best Production of a Play Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics... (read more)

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