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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

1963 - Complete text of the performance for the Shakespeare recording society, Inc., New York

HAMLET 

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Pennsylvania

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
 
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
 

Love's Labor's Lost (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2000)

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Novel

Dear Evan Hansen Barnes and Noble Edition

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe)

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.

James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare's staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

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Ohio

A Play in Four Acts

A play revealing the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association

The Crucible

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In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father’s will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. In creating Shylock, Shakespeare seems to have shared in a widespread prejudice against Jews. Shylock would have been regarded as a villain because he was a Jew. Yet he gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, in many productions, he emerges as the hero. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that “droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.” The authoritative edition of The Merchant of Venice from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading Essay by Alexander Leggatt The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

The Merchant of Venice

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A wide variety of scenes! #drama #theatre #theater #classics 

Minnesota

Scenes and Monologues from Contemporary Plays

Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene study, selected from the best plays from recent theater seasons.

More than 20 monologues for both men and women, carefully chosen to display the widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for auditioning actors. A large selection of parts for woman provide exciting opportunities to sharpen acting skills in roles that brought accolades from New York's toughest critics. More than 80 scenes in all, many previously unpublished, allow every actor, professional, amateur or student, to choose from either smart, sassy, often outrageous comedy or deeply moving drama--a unique, balanced collection of the most successful contemporary plays.

The Actor's Scenebook

North Carolina

Art, music, drama/theater

Tenor

The first book of broadway solos

Baritone/Bass

The First Book of Broadway Solos

Soprano

Mezzo-soprano 

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Iowa

A Play

In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way: the specter-like Alice, ringleader of the neighborhood; Esra, a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother is MIA--again; and Ivan, a stranded businessman trying to make his way home. As Gideon makes futile attempts to break into an apartment that may or may not be his, an unsettling connection between Ivan and Esra develops while Alice and Gideon look on helplessly. Unable to make sense of their predicament, let alone alter it, the four float aimlessly in and out of seeming reality only to find themselves more lost when the electricity finally comes back on.

Once again exploring the tenuous membrane that separates comfortable, everyday existence from the desperate margins of society, Flynn portrays an urban dystopia disturbingly similar to our own world while poignantly tapping into the loneliness and peril of city life.

Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

Through the Window

The official behind-the-scenes book of the hit musical that won 6 Tony Awards! A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he's always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Both deeply personal and profoundly contemporary, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a new American musical about life and the way we live it. The book-produced by Melcher Media, the team behind Hamilton, Wicked, Rent, and many more-tells the story of the musical from its conception nearly a decade ago to the Broadway stage. From developing the idea to writing the show, composing, casting, and rehearsals, DEAR EVAN HANSEN appeals to fans far and wide offering them the opportunity to continuously revisit the show, and for those who haven't seen the musical, reading the book will make them feel like they have. Filled with interviews with the cast and crew, original behind-the-scenes photography, a deeper look into Evan's fictional world and the visual world of the show, unreleased lyrics, and of course the libretto, as well as reflections on the creators own formative memories from their adolescence as it relates to the show's themes, and important examinations of how we present ourselves online and mental health, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a beautifully produced, thoughtful, and uplifting book.

Dear Evan Hansen

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The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967.

The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA-have assembled a team of eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used.

The new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals well into the twenty first century.


The Sonnets (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2001)

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A team of eminent scholars has been assembled to prepare new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems, for the new Pelican Shakespeare series. This series, incorporating more than 30 years of Shakespearean scholarship since the acclaimed original series was published between 1956 and 1967, will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals well into the 21st century. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favourite features of the original, this volume includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, a comprehensive and enlightening introduction to the play Antony and Cleopatraand a note on the text used.

Antony and Cleopatra (Penguin Books, 1999)

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"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)

The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.

Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* New, more readable trade trim size
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Cymbeline (Penguin Books, 2000)

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Michigan

** 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.

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Florida

The RECEPTIONIST and the THUGS

The thugs -- Full length in one-act / Comedy / 2m, 6f / Interior -- A dark comedy about work, thunder, and the mysterious things that are happening on the 9th floor of a big law firm. When a group of temps try to discover the secrets that lurk in the hidden crevices of their workplace, they realize they would rather believe in gossip and rumors than face dangerous realities.

The Office Plays and The Drunken City

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Light annotations in chapter on Shakespearean adaptation. Fascinating study for #theatre students! #japanesetheatre #shakespeare. See photos for full table of contents. 

Maryland

From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism - Revised Edition

Widely recognized as the standard history of Japanese theatre for Western readers, this work by Benito Ortolani is now available for the first time in paperback. From ancient folk and ritual performances to modern dance theatre, it provides concise summaries about each major theatrical form, situating the genre in its particular social, political, and cultural contexts and integrating a vast array of detail on such topics as staging, costuming, masks and properties, repertory, acting techniques, and noteworthy actors. Complete with illustrations and an extensive bibliography, this book serves undergraduates and specialists both as a reference and as a cultural history of Japan seen from the perspective of the performing arts.

The Japanese Theatre

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New Jersey

Macbeth: The DVD Edition includes everything you've come to expect from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions of Shakespeare's plays -- facing-page explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, illustrations from the Folger archives -- combined here with a bonus DVD of a performance of Macbeth recorded before a rapt audience in the Folger's intimate Elizabethan Theatre. Conceived and directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Aaron Posner, this acclaimed production showcases the inventive magic of Teller, who, with Posner, contributes a new foreword to this edition, writing about their vision of the play as a "supernatural horror thriller." Macbeth: The DVD Edition is the perfect volume for those encountering the play for the first time and for those finding brilliant new insights into a classic. THIS DVD EDITION INCLUDES: • DVD of the 2008 Folger Theatre/Two River Theater Company production -- with over 50 minutes of special features, including interviews with the directors, actors, designers, and scholars • Foreword by directors Teller and Aaron Posner on the staging of Macbeth • Freshly edited text based on the 1623 First Folio • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • A key to the play's famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language in Macbeth • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books • An essay by Susan Snyder that provides a modern perspective on the play

Macbeth

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Ex-library 

An epic ensemble piece in the vein of Fame and Let's Get Lost, You in Five Acts is a eulogy for a friendship-the heartbreaks, the betrayals, the inside jokes, the remember-whens. And the tragedy that changed everything.

It's always been you-you know that, right?

At a prestigious New York City performing arts school, five friends connect over one dream of stardom. But for Joy, Diego, Liv, Ethan and Dave, that dream falters under the pressure of second-semester, Senior year. Ambitions shift and change, new emotions rush to the surface, and a sense of urgency pulses between them- Their time together is running out.

Diego hopes to get out of the friend zone. Liv wants to escape, losing herself in fantasies of the new guy. Ethan conspires to turn his muse into his girlfriend. Dave pines for the drama queen. And if Joy doesn't open her eyes, she could lose the love that's been in front of her all along.

An epic ensemble piece in the vein of Fame and Let's Get Lost, You in Five Acts is a eulogy for a friendship-the heartbreaks, the betrayals, the inside jokes, the remember-whens. And the tragedy that changed everything.

You in Five Acts

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Mississippi

Vocal Selections - Vocal Line with Piano Accompaniment

(Vocal Selections). A dozen vocal selections from the Tony Award-winning score by Jason Robert Brown for this musical adaptation of the bestselling novel. Songs are presented in vocal lines with piano accompaniment. Includes: Almost Real * Always Better * Another Life * Before and After You/One Second and a Million Miles * Falling into You * It All Fades Away * Temporarily Lost * To Build a Home * What Do You Call a Man like That? * When I'm Gone * Wondering * The World Inside a Frame.

The Bridges of Madison County

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Summer and Smoke; Orpheus Descending; Suddenly Last Summer; Period of Adjustment

Four plays by the gifted writer of prose and pioneer of modern theater, together in one volume.

William Shakespeare

HAMLET

William Shakespeare; Peter Holland (Editor, Introduction by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by); A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by)

Love's Labor's Lost (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2000)

Val Emmich

Dear Evan Hansen Barnes and Noble Edition

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Arthur Miller; Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)

The Crucible

William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

The Merchant of Venice

Michael Schulman; Eva Mekler

The Actor's Scenebook

Hal leonard

The first book of broadway solos

Hal Leonard

The First Book of Broadway Solos

Hal Leonard

The first book of broadway solos

Hal Leonard

The first book of broadway solos

Nick Flynn

Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins

Steven Levenson; Benj Pasek; Justin Paul

Dear Evan Hansen

William Shakespeare; John Hollander (Editor, Introduction by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by); A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by)

The Sonnets (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2001)

William Shakespeare; A. R. Braunmuller (Editor, Introduction by, Series edited by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by)

Antony and Cleopatra (Penguin Books, 1999)

A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by); William Shakespeare; Peter Holland (Editor, Introduction by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by)

Cymbeline (Penguin Books, 2000)

Val Emmich; Steven Levenson; Benj Pasek; Justin Paul

Dear Evan Hansen

Adam Bock

The Office Plays and The Drunken City

Benito Ortolani

The Japanese Theatre

Arthur Miller; Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)

The Crucible

William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

Macbeth

Una LaMarche

You in Five Acts

Jason Robert Brown (Composed by)

The Bridges of Madison County

Tennessee Williams

Four Plays