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Art of Dramatic Writing Rev Edition
by Lajos Egri  
Powells.com Staff Pick If you begged me to give you the title of one "how-to" book on the topic of screenwriting and wouldn't give up until I told you, then it would have to be this classic introduction to the craft. Often used as a textbook in screenwriting classes...
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The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Theater in the Americas)
by Jeffrey Ullom Publisher Comments Far from the glittering lights of Broadway, in a city known more for its horse racing than its artistic endeavors, an annual festival in Louisville, Kentucky, has transformed the landscape of the American theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville—...
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Playwriting: The Structure of Action
by Sam Smiley Publisher Comments A classic guide to dramatic writing now revised and expanded for a new generation of playwrights and screenwriters...
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Women Writing Plays: Three Decades of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
by Alexis Greene Publisher Comments Women's playwriting burgeoned in the United States and the United Kingdom as part of the feminist movement of the 1970s. Ever since, playwriting women have been embracing new subjects, experimenting with form, and devising new ways of looking at the...
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Tom Stoppard : Plays 5 (99 Edition)
by Tom Stoppard Publisher Comments Plays Five: "Arcadia" "The Real Thing" "Night & Day; " "Indian Ink; " "Hapgood" This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language...
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The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
by Stuart Spencer Publisher Comments An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing <BR>During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular...
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Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road With Mary Martin and Carol Channing
by James Kirkwood Publisher Comments Kirkwood, the co-writer of the book of the great musical A Chorus Line, also wrote the stage play Legends, for which Carol Channing and Mary Martin embarked on a nationwide, bound-for-Broadway tour. This book chronicles the slow disintigration of the...
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Playwriting: A Practical Guide for Students of All Ages
by Noel Greig Publisher Comments What makes a story work? "Playwriting "offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance, and contains a wealth of exercises for all individuals and groups involved in making theatre. It can be used in a range of contexts: either as a...
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Insightment
by John Chambers Synopsis Five new plays. The meek / berk / interfaces / belongings / the look Chambers view of the decay of modern society is brilliantly expressed through alternately stylised and naturalistic language with plenty of sex and humour intermingled The...
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A Mambo Duet
by Eugene Rodriguez Synopsis A Mambo Duet is a collection of two plays, Mambo Louis and the Dancing Machine and The Mambo Cafe. Mambo Louie and the Dancing Machine is a Romantic Comedy played out in the Mambo clubs of New York City. Mambo Louie, is a "hump" at the phone company, but...
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Erik Miteus
by J. D. Peterson Publisher Comments Though at least two worlds have scorned the literature of the infamous, ancient Ornian writer JP Homer, it has not prevented his works from being read by both adult and youth alike with surprise and appreciation for the lunatic wit. Like the epic poem...
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Writing: Working in the Theatre (Working in the Theatre Seminars)
by Robert Emmet Long Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Tony Awards(, this volume features the behind-the-scenes words of the actors, writers, directors, and producers who make Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theatre, and London's West End come alive....
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Performing the Goat: A Collection of One Act Plays
by Darren Brealey Publisher Comments This book holds a very interesting group of plays. They seem to hold their targets very precisely, as the settings do not have a locale-specific context. Fergus' Envy invites us to the eccentric Lord Florien Thrust's mansion where a week-long birthday...
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British Theatre of the 1990S
by Mireia (edt) Aragay Publisher Comments This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre--the 1990s. Featuring interviews with key names in the field (including Max...
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G B Shaw's Unconventional Hero in Three Plays for Puritans
by Malgorzata Bielecka Publisher Comments What makes George Bernard Shaw's work great and unique is his interest in human beings. He won the Nobel Prize for the idealism and humanity portrayed in his work. In Three Plays for Puritans, published in 1901, he intended to broaden the reader's...
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Audience Literary Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3
by M. Stefan Strozier Synopsis "audience" is a literary journal of short stories, plays, poetry, author interviews, and more, from the very best writers around the world....
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A Game for All Seasons
by Michael Munro Synopsis Words and worlds spin around a core of the heavenly giants, in this wonder written for the eye to behold, and whisper in the summer evenings, and among equals in the northern realms, of the heather clad daydreams, that pave a way to our modern frontier...
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Hell Hostage: The Play
by Tonshea Carroll Publisher Comments Rodney Price and Fernando Torres, wanted for slayings and kidnappings throughout the South, are holding their next three victims. It is to be the perfect crime that could promise them easy money and another get-away. But something goes wrong. One of the...
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Writing Musical Theater
by Steven Rosenhaus Publisher Comments This complete guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through the writing of both songs and libretto, to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it...
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Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats
by M. Stefan Strozier Synopsis Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats is a 2-act play about an American Iraq war veteran struggling with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. The characters are drawn with precision, and the dialogue is exact, even that of the veterans portrayed. The emotional issues...
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