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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
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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)

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Fences (86 Edition)
Fences (86 Edition)
by August Wilson
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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)

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Fences: A Play
Fences: A Play
by August Wilson
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 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)

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Essential Theatre (10TH 11 - Old Edition)
Essential Theatre (10TH 11 - Old Edition)
by Oscar G. Brockett
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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)

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Topdog/Underdog
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
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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)

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Tempest ((Rev)92 Edition)
Tempest ((Rev)92 Edition)
by Aime Cesaire
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A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest. Cesaire’s rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism and their... (read more)

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The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
by Peter Brook
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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)

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And Then, You Act : Making Art in an Unpredictable World (07 Edition)
And Then, You Act : Making Art in an Unpredictable World (07 Edition)
by Anne Bogart
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From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process. Writing clearly and passionately, Bogart speaks to a wide... (read more)

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Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts
Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts
by August Wilson
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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)

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Jitney
Jitney
by August Wilson
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Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson's projected 10-play cycle (one for each decade) on the black experience in twentieth-century America. A... (read more)

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Colored Museum (88 Edition)
Colored Museum (88 Edition)
by Michael Wolfe
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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)

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King Hedley II (05 Edition)
King Hedley II (05 Edition)
by August Wilson
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“Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man. He’s a petty thief named King who will stop at nothing for a better life. . . . King Hedley is a big play... (read more)

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Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
by Steven D. Katz
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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)

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Water By the Spoonfull (12 Edition)
Water By the Spoonfull (12 Edition)
by Quiara Alegria Hudes
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Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "A beautiful, heartbreaking knockout of a play, as startling and innovative and human on the page as on the stage."?Junot Díaz A soldier returns from Iraq and struggles to find his place in the... (read more)

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Gem of the Ocean (05 Edition)
Gem of the Ocean (05 Edition)
by August Wilson
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“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)

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The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama)
The Piano Lesson (Plume Drama)
by August Wilson
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August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer... (read more)

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A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
by Lorraine Hansberry
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Seven Guitars (Plume Drama)
Seven Guitars (Plume Drama)
by August Wilson
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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)

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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture)
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Race and American Culture)
by Eric Lott
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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)

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Theater Experience (11TH 09 - Old Edition)
Theater Experience (11TH 09 - Old Edition)
by Edwin Wilson
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The ideal theatre appreciation text for courses focusing on theater elements, The Theatre Experience encourages students to be active theatre-goers as they learn about the fundamentals of a production. By addressing the importance of the audience, Wilson... (read more)

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