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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange Publisher Comments From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Raisin in the Sun (95 Edition) by Lorraine Hansberry Publisher Comments By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Brecht on Theatre : the Development of an Aesthetic (64 Edition) 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 $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen by Steven D. Katz Publisher Comments A complete catalogue of motion picture techniques for filmmakers. It concentrates on the 'storytelling' school of filmmaking, utilizing the work of the great stylists who established the versatile vocabulary of technique that has dominated the movies... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks Publisher Comments Using the metaphor of a carnival freak-show, Suzan-Lori Parks finds poetry and comedy, as well as drama and meaning, in one of the most embarrassing episodes in our collective history: the life of the Venus Hottentot, a South African woman who, due in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Musical : a Look At American Musical Theater (Rev 95 Edition) by Richard Kislan Synopsis This revised and expanded edition of Kislan's acclaimed study of America's musical theater includes a new section on "Recent Musical Theater: Issues and Problems."... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.00 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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Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style (7TH 10 Edition) by Francis Hodge Publisher Comments Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play to working with actors and designers to bring it to life. The authors emphasize that the role of the director is that of an artist-leader working... (read more) List Price $124.00 Your price: $114.10 New - Hardcover
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World of Theatre : Tradition and Innovation - Text Only (06 Edition) by Mira Felner Publisher Comments The World of Theatre is the first introduction to theatre book to truly focus on diversity and globalism, integrating coverage of multicultural, international and experimental theatre throughout. Theatre is presented as a global and multicultural form... (read more) List Price $137.80 Your price: $104.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Guitars (Plume Drama) by August Wilson Publisher Comments It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love and Theft : Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (95 Edition) by Eric Lott Publisher Comments For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chickencoop Chinaman; And, the Year of the Dragon: Two Plays 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 $20.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $21.00 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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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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rez Sisters : a Play in Two Acts (88 Edition) by Tomson Highway Publisher Comments "Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award" This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts by August Wilson Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of Fences and The Piano Lesson The glow accompanying August Wilsons place in contemporary American theater is fixed.” Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Theatre: Then and Now by William Missouri Downs Publisher Comments This invigorating new introductory text makes timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of Hollywood television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to, predates, and influences the... (read more) List Price $166.25 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fences: A Play by August Wilson Publisher Comments The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mountaintop (11 Edition) by Katori Hall Publisher Comments Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2009, The Mountaintop is a historical-fantastical two-person play, set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where at 6.01 PM the following day—April 4, 1968—Martin Luther... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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