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The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin

Author : Kirsten Childs

Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Page : 52 pages

File Size : 40,56 MB

Release : 2003

Category : African American women

ISBN : 9780822218791

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What's a black girl from sunny Southern California to do? White people are blowing up black girls in Birmingham churches. Black people are shouting "Black is beautiful" while straightening their hair and coveting light skin. Viveca Stanton's answer: Slap on a bubbly smile and be as white as you can be! In a humorous and pointed coming-of-age story spanning the sixties through the nineties, Viveca blithely sails through the confusing worlds of racism, sexism and Broadway showbiz until she's forced to face the devastating effect self-denial has had on her life.



Bella: An American Tall Tale

Author : Kirsten Childs

Publisher : Concord Theatricals

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 10,64 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0573707375

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When Bella boards a train west to reunite with her Buffalo soldier sweetheart, she encounters the most colorful and lively characters ever to roam the Western plains. Bullets and fists will fly, heads and hearts will break, but—blessed with a big heart, and a voluptuous figure—Bella will breeze on through it all.



The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington

Author : James Ijames

Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 11,34 MB

Release : 2018-06-18

Category : Drama

ISBN : 0822238179

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The recently widowed “Mother of America” lies helpless in her Mount Vernon bed, ravaged by illness and cared for by the very slaves that will be free the moment she dies. As she begins to slip away, she falls deep into a fever dream of terrifying theatricality that investigates everything from her family to her historical legacy.



A Problem Like Maria

Author : Stacy Ellen Wolf

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 26,95 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Music

ISBN : 9780472067725

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The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand



Dangerous Lady

Author : Martina Cole

Publisher : Headline

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 27,40 MB

Release : 2008-09-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0755350707

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* Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. * In gangland London, Maura Ryan is queen... Martina Cole's extraordinary first novel DANGEROUS LADY introduced a totally original genre of thriller, paving the way for her multiple No. 1 bestsellers, including BETRAYAL and GET EVEN. 'Right from the start [Cole] has enjoyed unqualified approval for her distinctive and powerfully written fiction' [The Times] No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone. Once you're hooked on Maura Ryan, be sure to read MAURA'S GAME, the second book from 'the undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian).



Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids

Author : Maurice Sendak

Publisher : Paw Prints

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,37 MB

Release : 2009-07-31

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ISBN : 9781442068285

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On the front steps and in the cellar of ten-year-old producer-director Rosie's Brooklyn row house, Rosie herself and her Nutshell friends put on a musical extravaganza.



The Cambridge Companion to the Musical

Author : William A. Everett

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 503 pages

File Size : 13,41 MB

Release : 2017-09-21

Category : Music

ISBN : 1107114748

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Book Description

An expanded and updated edition of this acclaimed, wide-ranging survey of musical theatre in New York, London, and elsewhere.



Grimly Handsome

Author : Julia Jarcho

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 82 pages

File Size : 28,88 MB

Release : 2018-02-14

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1350066389

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Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else. In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell Christmas trees on the sidewalk; two cops work to solve a killing spree; and a young woman finds herself transforming in ways she could never have imagined. A darkly comic thriller exploring the margins of a city and the violent fantasies they inspire. Julia Jarcho's Obie Award-winning American play has its UK premiere at The Site, a new space at the Royal Court in December 2017.



The Battle of Green Lanes

Author : Cosh Omar

Publisher : Oberon Books

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 26,62 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Drama

ISBN :

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A hard-hitting, controversial new play



Trouble in Mind

Author : Alice Childress

Publisher : Theatre Communications Group

Page : 82 pages

File Size : 11,25 MB

Release : 2022-06-21

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1636700160

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“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play’s stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here with an essay by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.