1987 edition of Pygmalion, the basis of My Fair Lady. Bought it for $6 in a used bookshop  #paperback #myfairlady #play #theater #drama #classics #bernardshaw

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The text of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Pygmalion

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This book has been used to teach American theater students for decades and has been translated into numerous languages. The author was an American theater historian and president of the American Theatre Association. Solid book published in 1968. 741 pages, lightly tanned. Some underlining and margin notes in the first 100 pages; see pics for some of the heaviest examples. Some wear to the board edges all around. No DJ. #theater #nonfiction #hardcover #arts #acting #arts (Shelf 4F)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

History of the Theatre

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Illinois

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of The Merchant of Venice retains the text and Introduction prepared by M. M. Mahood and features a new introductory section by Charles Edelman. Where Mahood focuses in her Introduction on the expectations of the play's first audience and on our modern experience of seeing and hearing the drama performed, Edelman explores the play's sexual politics. He also foregrounds recent scholarship on the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time and surveys the international scope and diversity of theatrical interpretations of the text in the 1980s and 1990s. He pays particular attention to the ways in which directors and actors tackle the troubling figure of Shylock.

The Merchant of Venice

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Washington

In the spring of 1435, Joliffe and his fellow players are sent to the village of Ashewell not only to stage plays, but to uncover some dark secrets about the town's three wealthy families: the Ashewells, the Medcotes, and the Gosyns. A rivalry has been brewing among the families, entangling the entire town in a web of seduction, deception, and blackmail.

Matters go beyond the breaking point when someone turns to murder to settle their grievances.  And if one murder is good, why not another?  If all the world is a stage, then it's up to Joliffe to bring the curtain down on this tragedy--before another man takes his final curtain call...


A Play of Knaves

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Oregon

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."  This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

A Raisin in the Sun

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How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community, or Professional Theate R

This guide offers guidance in selecting a musical suited to the production capacities, budget, and tastes of a particular acting company, amateur or professional. Over 200 shows are profiled, with details of plot, music, dance, casting, rights, publicity, and other practical matters.

Let's Put on a Musical!

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Pennsylvania

A Teacher's Guide to Modern Drama

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North Carolina

A Tragi-comedy

Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: "I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness," and The Visit is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo. The play takes place "somewhere in Central Europe" and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed.

The Visit

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Utah

Like It Never Happened

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The Novel

** INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **USA TODAY BESTSELLERWSJ BESTSELLERINDIE BOUND BESTSELLER From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore--even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend. As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.

Dear Evan Hansen

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Virginia

THE STORY: Sara Goode, an enormously successful American woman working as the British representative of a major Hong Kong bank, is about to celebrate her fifty-fourth birthday, and she isn't exactly too happy about it. Firmly ensconced in her lovel

The Sisters Rosensweig

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In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives. A critical hit when it premiered Off-Broadway, this comedy, by one of the country's most produced and highly regarded young playwrights, was awarded the coveted 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Flick (TCG Edition)

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Texas

The three Theban plays

Sophocles

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Fortune’s Journey 

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Idaho

Isda should have died. Cast into a well for being one of the magical few who can manipulate memories when people sing, she was rescued by the local opera house's owner. All he asks in exchange for keeping her safe is that she use her power to keep his customers happy...and that she stay out of sight.

Then Isda meets Emeric Rodin, and she finds in his memories hints of a way to break free of her gilded prison. Haunted by this possibility, she searches his mind for the answers she's craved her whole life. But even as she struggles with growing feelings for Emeric, she learns that in order to take charge of her own destiny, she must become what the world always feared she would be--a monster.

"Lush and lavish, Sing Me Forgotten hit all the right notes." --Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows

"A deliciously magical feminist twist on the beloved classic The Phantom of the Opera." --Kester Grant, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Court of Miracles

Sing Me Forgotten

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Like new condition! #paperback #girls #kids #childrens #friendship #relationship #elementary #stage #theater #juvenilefiction

Missouri

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls

Stage Fright

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Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 female

Scenery: Interior

America's premier comic playwright crosses the Atlantic for a suite of hilarious comedies set in a deluxe London hotel a sedate place until these characters check in. In Settling Accounts, the suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long time business manager, caught absconding with the writer's money, at gun point. The villian concocts increasingly farfetched explanations of what he was doing at Heathrow with

London Suite

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Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Florida

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander, but is betrothed to Demetrius--much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius. It seems that love could never be so complicated!

When Hermia and Lysander escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them--and Helena chases him. With the magic of the forest bewitching the hand of fate, perhaps their dreams of love will come true. . . .

Beautifully presented for a modern teen audience with both the original play and prose retellings selected from the Your Midsummer Night's Dream writing contest on inkpop.com, this is the must-have edition of William Shakespeare's timeless classic.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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This paperback is in like new condition, with no evidence that it has been read. No wear to the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, with no damage to the covers. Printed in 1998, 240 pp.

Minnesota

As part of the Newly Revised Signet Classic Shakespeare series this edition of Henry V contains- an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theatre by the general editor, Sylvan Barnet; a special introduction to the play by the editor, John Russell Brown; the source from which Henry V is derived; dramatic criticism from the past and present; a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors and productions; text, notes and commentaries; and an up-to-date list of recommended readings.

Henry V

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Othello

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Iowa

Emma Allen couldn't be more excited to start her sophomore year. Not only is she the assistant stage manager for the drama club's production of Hamlet, but her crush Brandon is directing, and she's rocking a new haircut that's sure to get his attention. But soon after school starts, everything goes haywire. Emma's promoted to stage manager with zero experience, her best friend Lulu stops talking to her, and Josh--the adorable soccer boy who's cast as the lead--turns out to be a disaster. It's up to Emma to fix it all, but she has no clue where to start. One night after rehearsal, Emma stays behind to think through her life's latest crises and distractedly falls through the stage's trap door . . . landing in the basement of the Globe Theater. It's London, 1601, and with her awesome new pixie cut, everyone thinks Emma's a boy--even Will Shakespeare himself. With no clue how to get home, Emma gamely plays her role as backstage assistant to the original production of Hamlet, learning a thing or two about the theater, and meeting an incredibly hot actor named Alex who finds Emma as intriguing as she finds him. But once Emma starts traveling back and forth through time, things get really confusing. Which boy is the one for her? In which reality does she belong? Will Lulu ever forgive her? And can she possibly save two disastrous productions of Hamlet before time runs out? Praise for Saving Hamlet: "I love, love, love Saving Hamlet. I love its characters--smart, sassy, irreverent--and its gender-bending both in the 21st and 17th centuries. I love its intelligent take on high school theater geeks."-- Jane Yolen, author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Sword of the Rightful King, and Owl Moon

Saving Hamlet

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Tennessee

An Autobiography - Vanity Will Get You Somewhere

The noted actor traces his life from his tidewater, Virginia beginnings and goes behind the scenes of his stage plays and movies with intimate stories of his adventures with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Katharine Hepburn, and others

George Bernard Shaw; Dan H. Laurence (Editor); Feliks Topolski (Illustrator)

Pygmalion

Gunter schone

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Oscar G. Brockett

History of the Theatre

M. M. Mahood (Editor); A. R. Braunmuller (Contribution by); Brian Gibbons (Contribution by); William Shakespeare; Charles Edelman (Contribution by)

The Merchant of Venice

Margaret Frazer

A Play of Knaves

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Peter Filichia; Watson-Guptill

Let's Put on a Musical!

Stewart H. Benedict

A Teacher's Guide to Modern Drama

Friedrich Dürrenmatt translated by Patrick Bowles

The Visit

Emily Adrian

Like It Never Happened

Val Emmich; Steven Levenson; Benj Pasek; Justin Paul

Dear Evan Hansen

Wendy Wasserstein

The Sisters Rosensweig

Annie Baker

The Flick (TCG Edition)

Penguin Classics

Sophocles

Bruce Coville

Fortune’s Journey

Jessica S. Olson

Sing Me Forgotten

Meg Cabot

Stage Fright

Neil Simon

London Suite

Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare; John Russell Brown (Editor)

Henry V

William Shakespeare

Othello

Molly Booth

Saving Hamlet

Joseph Cotten

Vanity Will Get You Somewhere