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The Letters of Noel Coward
by Noel Coward  Publisher Comments The definitive collection of letters of the incomparable Coward reveals a unique and irresistible portrait of a society and age--from the Blitz to the Ritz. Profoundly savvy, witty, and often surprisingly moving, this collection presents the artist at...
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Sam Shepard
by Don Shewey Publisher Comments Sam Shepard's outlandish, nightmarish, yet lyrical plays The Tooth of Crime, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and dozens of othershave garnered him a Pulitzer Prize and a lasting reputation as one of America's greatest living...
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South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Self-Discovery
by Hesper Anderson Publisher Comments "My mother killed herself on the first day of spring." So begins South Mountain Road, Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery. When Hesper Anderson...
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Gielguds Letters
by Richard Mangan Synopsis A 20th century life seen through the letters of one of the great English actors of his generation....
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Tom: The Unknown Tennesse Williams
by Lyle Leverich Publisher Comments Now in paperback--the riveting, revelatory, and sole authorized account of the critical first decades of Tennessee Williams' life. "A huge accomplishment. Lyle Leverich's "Tom" is thorough and passionate, an astonishing tale".--John Lahr, "The New Yorker"...
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Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce
by Sylvia Jukes Morris Publisher Comments Detailed and rich with mesmerizing narrative, Rage for Fame recounts the story of the flowering years of Clare Booth Luce--a former congresswoman and editor of Vanity Fair--a striking woman whose private life was as intriguing and spectacular as her...
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Harriet Bosse :Strindberg's muse and interpreter
by Carla Waal Publisher Comments Harriet Bosse, a delicate beauty with rich theatrical talent, was an inspiration for the prominent and controversial playwright August Strindberg. After their three-year marriage collapsed, she became his interpreter to the world, guardian of the...
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Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theatre, Philosophy
by Toril Moi Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of his death, this is a major critical study of Henrik Ibsen by a leading literary theorist....
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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 spectacular, 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 the...
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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy
by Park Honan Publisher Comments One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe was also a secret agent as well as the central figure in a murder mystery. Now, Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched and detailed biography of Marlowe to...
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Conversations with Pinter
by Mel Gussow Publisher Comments For more than twenty years, Mel Gussow, a drama critic for the New York Times, has been meeting Harold Pinter to talk about work and life, plays and people. At the core of this book is a series of lengthy interviews - some of the most extensive that...
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Memoirs
by Tennessee Williams Publisher Comments For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story. <BR>When "Memoirs" was first published...
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John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man (Vintage)
by John Heilpern Publisher Comments John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression...
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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
by Kenneth Tynan Synopsis Critic Kenneth Tynan, the impresario who created "Oh Calcutta", was also an eccentric and connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. His diaries record a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics....
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Arthur Miller a Life
by Martin Gottfried Synopsis Arthur Miller's life spans more than four decades and includes marriage to Marilyn Monroe, numerous plays, novels and an autobiography. Martin Gottfried utilizes private letters from and to Arthur Miller, to craft a biography of this playwright, cultural...
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Cambridge Companion To Chekhov (00 Edition)
by Vera Gottlieb Publisher Comments Accessible and up to date Companion on one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire....
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Motel Chronicles
by Sam Shepard 
Publisher Comments Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural...
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Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy
by John Patrick Diggins Publisher Comments In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O’Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the...
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The Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legends of Del Close
by Kim Johnson Publisher Comments Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close—cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco’s the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic,...
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David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre
by Ira Nadel Publisher Comments Author, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter, David Mamet is often referred to as the quintessential American writer. His works are known for their clever and terse dialogue and have earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross and Oscar...
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