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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Complete Resource for Aspiring Actors

Professional acting is both an art and a business, and this book advises beginning actors on how to cope successfully on both fronts. Opening chapters describe the difficulties every budding actor encounters and explains basic acting techniques, which include memory exercises and methods for developing stage presence. Chapters that follow instruct in--


 * Reading the play with understanding and learning to build the character that the actor will be portraying
 * Developing the actor's voice, imitating regional accents, and more
 * Expressing the character's thoughts and ideas through body posture and movement
 * Adapting acting techniques to different media: stage, film, TV, and radio
 * Learning the business side of acting by selling one's talents effectively
   
   The author strips away preconceptions and clichés often associated with acting, and pinpoints common mistakes that inexperienced actors need to overcome and avoid. More than 300 instructive illustrations.

The Acting Bible

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A Novel

The New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series brings us back to Vigàta in the nineteenth century for a rip-roaring comic novel.

1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named Prefect for Vigàta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theater. The Brewer of Preston, it's called, and the Vigàtese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night.

The Brewer of Preston

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Pygmalion

Ohio

This was one of my favorite writing projects mainly because he is a local guy and lived in the same town where I went to school and I certainly can identify with the many years he lived in difficult circumstances. Keeping his belt tight. Resisting the temptations to drink alcohol. Working hard for minimal reimbursement. He knew he had a talent and he didn't want to waste it. This monologue play is 7,000 words and contains his personal history, his professional history, many of his jokes, a description of his 14 years working with Frank Sinatra, a description of his childhood home in Harvey, Illinois in Chicago's South Suburbs, hi s dreams and disappointments and successes, and generous time donations to many benefit performances. It is not completely comprehensive. That would take many volumes to cover his entire active life, but the reader or performer will certainly get a good taste of who Tom Dreesen is and how he got to where life has taken him.I like that he doesn't use vulgarity. So many new comics do, but he doesn't. His story and comedic material is presentable to all ages and sensibilities. There are some risqu� sections, but that is the way most people think and speak. I like the way he communicated with his associates, especially Frank Sinatra and David Letterman. I really like that he is loyal to his childhood friendships, his family and his church. Enjoy this play. Get to know Tom Dreesen as I have and get a taste for his sense of humor. He is a good man. Ambitious, but not selfish. This is taste of his life. I enjoyed it and I know you will also.

Tom Dreesen Monologue Play

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This book is the classic guide to initiating dramatic activities in the classroom. "Creative Drama in the Classroom" teaches the non-specialist how to plan simple activities and to adapt material for use in creative drama and language arts programs.   In this book, the author introduces students to a variety of genres and strategies, including mime, play structure, improvisation, and using drama the special education curriculum. Unlike other texts, McCaslin focuses on drama as an art form as well as a teaching tool.   The author, the late Nellie McCaslin, was a theater historian and educator who was considered the country's leading authority on children's theater, died on Feb. 28, 2005 at St. Vincent's Manhattan Hospital at the age of 90.  Example of a simple improvisational scene:  "The scene is a toy shop on Christmas Eve. It is midnight, and the owner has just closed the door and gone home. At the stroke of midnight, the toys come alive and talk together. They may consist of a toy solider, a rag doll, a beautiful doll, a clown, a teddy bear, a jack-in-the-box, etc. Let us know by your conversation and movements who you are and why you were not sold." #Drama #Education #Teaching #Creativity #Theater #Psychodrama

Creative Dramatics in the Classroom

Script and lyrics for Tony Award winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. #paperback #broadway #theater 

Illinois

An original musical that explores the poignant desire for human connection in the tumultuous life of one young man. Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it―teeming with the irrepressible emotions all too familiar with anyone who's ever been a teenager. After a tragedy strikes, Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, but is it ultimately for the better?

Dear Evan Hansen (TCG Edition)

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Washington

A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband's wedding ring--the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian's small theater company--Good Company--afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now? With Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's signature tenderness, humor, and insight, Good Company tells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us.

Good Company

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#shakespeare #paperback #Tina Packer #illustrated #treasury #collection #theater #poetry #RomeoAndJuliet #Hamlet #Othello #TheTempest box 40 ￼ Please note: there is a $7.50 purchase minimum when buying from our shop. There is a platform fee, packaging, and travel costs. Our prices are extremely low and so please if you don’t need another book, please buy one for a friend. Thanks for understanding. Box 40

Texas

Oversized book. 11 1/4 x 9”

A collection of prose retellings of ten familiar Shakespeare plays, each illustrated by a well-known artist or artists."

Tales from Shakespeare

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Minor wear on the edges of the book and dust jacket. Slightly yellowed pages. 

Seventeen-year-old Bertie strives to save Theater Illuminata, the only home she has ever known, but is hindered by the Players who magically live on there, especially Ariel, who is willing to destroy the Book at the center of the magic in order to escapeinto the outside world.

Eyes Like Stars

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#paperback #vintage #fiction #drama #theater #classics

New Jersey

A Doll House; the Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; the Master Builder

Among the greatest and best known of ibsen's works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his probing of social problems, realistic dialogue, and depiction of his characters' inner lives as well as their actions. Rich in symbolism and often autobiographical, each of these dramas deals convincingly and provocatively with the universal human emotions of greed, fear, and sexual hostility, and confronts the eternal conflict between reality and illusion. These Rolf Fjelde translations, newly revised for this edition, have been widely acclaimed as the definitive versions of the major works of the father of modern theater.

Four Major Plays: Volume 1

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Sightings of a ghostly figure in the Paris opera house lead to a discovery of a disfigured genius who secretly lives among its passageways

The Phantom of the Opera

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New York

A Comedy For Young People With Audience Participation in 3 Acts

Circus In The Wind

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

An Anthology

Volume 1 of this two-volume set contains 26 plays including Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"; Sophocles, "Antigone"; Seneca, "Medea"; Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus"; Heywood, "A Woman Killed with Kindness"; Johnson, "Every Man in His Humour"; Beaumont and Fletcher, "The Maid's Tragedy"; Sheridan, "The School for Scandal"; plus plays from the Orient, medieval plays, and more.

World Drama

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Solid book on the history of the theatre with lightly tanned pages and many B&W photos and illustrations. A quick scroll through shows 18 pages with light margin notes or underlining, and previous owner name on ffep. Boards sunned with some stains and scuffs, corners and spine bumped. No DJ. Published 1966. #theater #history #performingarts #nonfiction #hardcover #vintage (Shelf 7B)

Fifth Edition Revised 

The Development of the Theatre

Good condition! No major flaws. Ships securely and with care! #paperback #juliuscaesar #shakespeare #play #classics #rome #historicalfiction #government #theater #williamshakespeare 

Julius Caesar

#paperback #1920s #dualperspective #fiction #historical #lgbtq #newyork #theater 

Wisconsin

A Novel by the Author of Orphan #8

NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Bachelor Girl plunges the reader deep into life during the Jazz Age...and the revealing of other secrets and confessions will keep readers up all night looking for answers." --Booklist (starred review)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 comes a fresh and intimate novel in the vein of Lilac Girls and The Alice Network about the destructive power of secrets and the redemptive power of love--inspired by the true story of Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest in 1939 to an unknown actress, Helen Winthrope Weyant.

When the owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, takes Helen Winthrope, a young actress, under his wing, she thinks it's because of his guilt over her father's accidental death--and so does Albert Kramer, Ruppert's handsome personal secretary. Helen and Albert develop a deepening bond the closer they become to Ruppert, an eccentric millionaire who demands their loyalty in return for his lavish generosity.

New York in the Jazz Age is filled with possibilities, especially for the young and single. Yet even as Helen embraces being a "bachelor girl"--a working woman living on her own terms--she finds herself falling in love with Albert, even after he confesses his darkest secret. When Ruppert dies, rumors swirl about his connection to Helen after the stunning revelation that he has left her the bulk of his fortune, which includes Yankee Stadium. But it is only when Ruppert's own secrets are finally revealed that Helen and Albert will be forced to confront the truth about their relationship to him--and to each other.

Inspired by factual events that gripped New York City in its heyday, Bachelor Girl is a hidden history gem about family, identity, and love in all its shapes and colors.

Bachelor Girl

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This book is currently on consignment. It is available for sale, but may be removed if sold locally. Excellent vintage condition except for name on front cover. No markings inside. #plays #scripts #theater

Montana

When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.

Major Barbara

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Good vintage condition. #memoir #playwright #theater 

A Memoir

This National Book Award winner is a brilliant and uncompromising memoir by one of the greatest playwrights in American history. 



Caustic, genius, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth." Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world -- and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own. Wendy Wasserstein's introduction to this new edition provides a fascinating literary and historical context for reexamining Lillian Hellman's life and achievement.

An Unfinished Woman

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Georgia

Moving and romantic, this coming-of-age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed in an introduction by the author's granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L'Engle herself as a young woman--"vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer."

During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. She's never felt so alive.

And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeth's ever kissed who has really meant something to her.

Then Elizabeth's perfect summer is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was.

Praise for The Joys of Love:

"The Joys of Love [is] a story of first love and the romance of the theater. Written in the early '40s by Madeleine L'Engle (author of A Wrinkle in Time), who died last year, the book has been published for the first time thanks to the efforts of her granddaughters." --Parade magazine, a Kids Summer Reading 2008 pick

"Ardent fans [will be] . . . grateful for a last chance to dip into something new by the author." --The Christian Science Monitor

"L'Engle completists will be interested in this early (1940s) and heretofore unpublished novel about a young and idealistic actress's apprenticeship in summer theater. The writing is earnest and emotional." --The Horn Book

"Teens . . . will warm to the author's characteristic, slice-to-the-heart expressions of emotion, while the realistic portrayal of the summer-stock theater scene will draw aspiring actors." --Booklist

"It will . . . interest readers who want to know more about the author of the groundbreaking A Wrinkle in Time, especially because in an introduction by L'Engle's granddauther Léna Roy identifies it as semiautobiographical." --Publishers Weekly

"L'Engle revisits her own theater experiences at the beach in the 1940s, making this novel's salty breezes, musty shared quarters, and boardwalk burgers vivid." --School Library Journal

"A joy indeed." --Kirkus Reviews


Books by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time Quintet
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time

A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson

Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time.

The Austin Family Chronicles
Meet the Austins (Volume 1)
The Moon by Night (Volume 2)
The Young Unicorns (Volume 3)
A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book!
Troubling a Star (Volume 5)

The Polly O'Keefe books
The Arm of the Starfish
Dragons in the Waters
A House Like a Lotus

And Both Were Young

Camilla

The Joys of Love

The Joys of Love

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#paperback #shakespeare #hamlet #theater #theatre

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

HAMLET 

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South Dakota

Five plays by this virtuoso of the theatre have been gathered in one volume and given scholarly attention. Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative. Irish in origin, he worked and wrote in England and America where for twenty years he led the touring circuit. His plays reflect the different theatrical traditions, Irish, English and American, in which he was a crucial figure. Two plays are published here for the first time this century, Used Up and Jessie Brown. The Shaughraun and The Octoroon are outstanding examples of melodrama; Old Heads and Young Hearts is one of the few notable nineteenth-century comedies. Peter Thomson's introduction assesses Boucicault's place in the nineteenth century in both England and America, and shows that his work cannot be ignored by any serious student of drama.

Plays by Dion Boucicault

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Maryland


A companion to UEP's Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). A genre that has left more of a mark on British and American culture than we may imagine" (Gothic Studies).

London's Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End. It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy. On its side were some of the finest actors on the English stage, in the shape of Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, and a team of extremely able writers, including Noël Coward.

London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror considers the importance and influence of the English Grand Guignol within its social, cultural and historical contexts. It also presents a selection of ten remakarble English-language Grand Guignol plays, some of which were banned by the Lord Chamberlain, the censor of the day, and have never been published or publicly performed. Among the plays in the book is a previously unpublished work by Noël Coward, The Better Half, first performed at the Little Theatre in 1922.

The reviewer in the journal Gothic Studies wrote, of the authors' previous book: "having recently taught a module on Grand Guignol with third year drama students, it is also worth noting that this book captured their imaginations in a way that few other set texts seem to manage."










London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror

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North Carolina

Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece that raises basic questions about human behavior that are still vigorously debated by students and scholars. Photos and illustrations. (Poetry/Plays)

Oedipus the King

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For fans of the high-stakes tension of the New York Times bestsellers Luckiest Girl Alive and The Lying Game, comes "a brilliantly paced thriller that gets under your skin in the best possible way" (Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister) about female ambition and what happens when fake violence draws real blood.

After years of struggling in the Chicago theater scene, ambitious actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime. The catch? The mercurial Malcolm Mercer is the director and he's known for pushing his performers past their limits--on stage and off.

Kira's convinced she can handle Malcolm, but the theater's cofounder, Joanna Cuyler, is another story. Joanna sees Kira as a threat--to her own thwarted artistic ambitions, her twisted relationship with Malcolm, and the shocking secret she's keeping about the upcoming production. But as opening night draws near, Kira and Joanna both come to the realization that Malcolm's dangerous extremes are nothing compared to what they're capable of themselves.

An edgy, addictive, and fiendishly clever tale of ambition, deceit, and power suited for fans of the film Black Swan, Temper "revels in its mind games, delivering twist after twist as it races toward a Shakespearian climax. The final page will leave you gasping" (Amy Gentry, author of Last Woman Standing).

Michael Powell

The Acting Bible

Andrea Camilleri; Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)

The Brewer of Preston

Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

Acie Cargill

Tom Dreesen Monologue Play

Nellie McCaslin

Creative Dramatics in the Classroom

Steven Levenson; Benj Pasek (Composed by); Justin Paul (Composed by)

Dear Evan Hansen (TCG Edition)

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Good Company

Tina Packer; Gail de Marcken (Illustrator); Diane Dillon; B. Moser (Illustrator); K. Nelson (Illustrator); Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France) Staff

Tales from Shakespeare

Lisa Mantchev

Eyes Like Stars

Henrik Ibsen; Rolf Fjelde (Foreword by)

Four Major Plays: Volume 1

Gaston Leroux; Lowell Bair (Translator)

The Phantom of the Opera

Aurand Harris

Circus In The Wind

Barrett H. Clark (Editor)

World Drama

Allardyce Nicoll

The Development of the Theatre

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

Kim Van Alkemade

Bachelor Girl

George Bernard Shaw; Dan H. Laurence (Editor)

Major Barbara

Lillian Hellman

An Unfinished Woman

Madeleine L'Engle; Lena Roy (Introduction by)

The Joys of Love

William Shakespeare

HAMLET

Dion Boucicault; Peter Thomson (Editor)

Plays by Dion Boucicault

Richard Hand; Michael Wilson; Richard J. Hand

London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror

Sophocles Sophocles

Oedipus the King

Layne Fargo

Temper