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"Featuring scenes from the ten best plays"--Jacket.
Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780879101831
"Featuring scenes from the ten best plays"--Jacket.
Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN :
The yearbook gives listings of casts and technical personnel for on- and off-Broadway productions, a summary of the season, synopses and lengthy extracts of dialogue from the best plays, and facts and figures on the New York and regional theater.
Author : Howard Stein
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2000-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557832320
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2000-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557833174
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557834256
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429675984
The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the forty-year long career of dramatist Tony Kushner as playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and public intellectual and political activist. Following an introduction examining the influences of Kushner’s development as an artist, this updated second edition features individual chapters on his major plays, including A Bright Room Called Day, Hydriotaphia, or The Death of Dr. Browne, Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Homebody/Kabul, Caroline, or Change, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, along with chapters on Kushner’s adaptations, one-act plays, and screenplays, including his two Academy Award-nominated screenplays, Munich and Lincoln. A book for anyone interested in theater, film, literature, and the ways in which the past informs the present, this second edition of The Theater of Tony Kushner explores how his writings reflect key elements of American society, from politics and economics to race, gender, and spirituality, all with the hope of inspiring America to live up to its ideals.
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Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Glenn Young
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781557834263
A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.
Author : Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476675554
There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from classical plays like Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and Euripides' Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France, and present-day productions like Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd, Stephen King's Carrie and dark 21st-century plays by Clive Barker and Conor McPherson. The book compiles the history and behind-the-scenes tales surrounding stage productions about monsters, hauntings and horrors both historical and imagined. Included are the nightmarish adaptations of popular writings from Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, as well as plays starring popular characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Woman in Black. More than 500 plays are documented, accompanied by dozens of photographs. Entries include plot synopses, existing production data, and evaluations by critics and scholars.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313052891
Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American dramatists have made enormous contributions to the theater and their works are included in numerous editions and anthologies. Some of the most popular plays of the 20th century have been written by African Americans, and high school students and undergraduates study their works. But for all their popularity and influence, African American playwrights have received less critical attention than poets and novelists. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of more than 60 African American dramatists from the 19th century to the present.