Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Lighting and Sound

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Illinois

A Play

Fat Pig

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Maryland

A Penguin Classic Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In Miller’s work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve’s daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity. Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal ethics. This edition features an introduction by Christopher Bigsby. 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.

All My Sons

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#mystery #ivymeadows #pnw #humor #theater #cindybrown

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

"The setting is irresistible, the mystery is twisty, and Ivy is as beguiling as ever, but what I really loved was the depth and complexity of painful human relationships right there in the middle of a sparkly caper. Roll on Ivy #3 " - Catriona McPherson, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Award-Winning Author of The Day She Died "It is not easy to combine humor and murder, but Cindy Brown does it effortlessly. Who else would think of combining The Sound of Music with Cabaret with a serial killer? The result is such fun." - Rhys Bowen, New York Times Bestselling Author of Malice at the Palace "Ivy is a delight She's sweet, smart, and a little zany. You'll find yourself laughing out loud as you race through the pages." - April Henry, New York Times Bestselling Author of Lethal Beauty "The mystery kept me glued to the pages and I enjoyed all facets as each clue got me closer to the killer's identity...had me roaring with laughter...A delightful read and I can't wait to see what happens next in this amusingly entertaining series." - Dru's Book Musings "Ivy Meadows is a likable, funny, hapless narrator. She goes too far, says too much, sticks her nose in where it doesn't belong...But the mysteries are only part of the fun in Cindy Brown's Ivy Meadows Mystery series...Brown's books are well-designed cotton candy, page turners sprinkled with genuine character-based humor and delightfully bad jokes. I greatly enjoyed both Macdeath and The Sound of Murder, and I look forward to the next one." - Show Showdown "The author blends theater lore with a deeper psychological layer, and always on stage is her delightful sense of humor. The concept of a mash-up of The Sound of Music and Cabaret is as brilliant as it is ripe for absurdity, and readers will thoroughly enjoy this extremely fun mystery that entertains until the final curtain call." - Kings River Life Magazine All Ivy Meadows wants is to be an actor. And a private investigator. Plus she'd really like a pair of clean underwear, a place to stay since her apartment caught fire, and to overcome her fear of singing in public. Minor inconveniences aside, Ivy might be on a roll. She's just landed her first real PI case, a seeming suicide in a retirement community. Not only that, but a big New York producer is coming to Arizona to see Ivy in the world premiere of The Sound of Cabaret (singing nuns AND Berlin burlesque). But all is not raindrops on roses. A creep in a convertible is tailing Ivy, a local posse member is way too interested in her investigation, and something is seriously wrong with one of her castmates. And that suicide-could it be murder? As the curtain rises, Ivy finds herself smack in the sights of a serial killer. Related subjects include: cozy mysteries, women sleuths, murder mystery series, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), amateur sleuth books, book club recommendations, humorous murder mytsteries, private investigator mystery series. Books in the Ivy Meadows Humorous Mystery Series: MACDEATH (#1) THE SOUND OF MURDER (#2) OLIVER TWISTED (#3) July 2016 Part of the Henery Press Mystery Series Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all... Author Bio: Cindy Brown has been a theater geek (musician, actor, director, producer, and playwright) since her first professional gig at age 14. Now a full-time writer, she's lucky enough to have garnered several awards (including 3rd place in the 2013 international Words With Jam First Page Competition, judged by Sue Grafton ) and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop. Though Cindy and her husband now live in Portland, Oregon, she made her home in Phoenix, Arizona, for more than 25 years and knows all the good places to hide dead bodies in both cities."

The Sound of Murder

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Wear on spine and edges appropriate for a vintage paperback. 

Connecticut

Butley

Mustapha Matura

Washington

"First published by Methuen London Limited in 1982. This edition with changes to the script and a new cover published 2015"--Title page verso.

Play Mas

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#paperback #Shakespeare #MerchantofVenice #Theater #Play

Texas

The Merchant of Venice

Christopher Fowler

Please note a little damage on spine where a sticker removed some of the paperback cover, see photos for details. Acquired used, perfectly acceptable reading copy. Combine with other books from my shop for bundle savings!

Secondhand so I don’t know its original home, but ships from the nonsmoking home of a squirrel chasing miss-barks-a-lot golden doodle and her humans.

Minnesota

A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

When a bomb claims the life of John May's detective partner of more than half a century, May becomes convinced that the key to the killer's identity lies in his first case together with his partner.

Full Dark House, book 1

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Shepherd Mead

Stanley Bing

Louisiana

With a New Introduction by Stanley Bing

From this classic tome, learn everything you need to know to land the corner office:

·         How to make money

·         How to make more money

·         How to choose the right company (one big enough so that nobody knows exactly what anyone else is doing)

·         How to cultivate the appearance of extreme busyness through strategic desk management

·         How to delegate responsibility (have plenty of assistants!)

First published in 1952, this guide inspired the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, which returns to Broadway in 2011 in a production that stars Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette. Updated with a brilliant new introduction by the king of business satire, Stanley Bing, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is essential reading for the ambitious and the lazy alike.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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#paperback #play #script #theatre #theater 

"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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Caryl Churchill

New York

The Chicago Tribune calls this chilling new play "a masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today."

Far Away

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Gregory Maguire

Some sticker residue on front cover. And a price sticker on back cover. Yellowing pages , no cracked spine. 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

Wicked

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J. Ellen Gainor

#paperback #anthology #drama #theater #nortonanthology 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Alabama

The only one-volume drama anthology that's a Norton.

The Norton Anthology of Drama

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Hugh Wheeler

Christopher Bond

Stephen Sondheim

New Jersey

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

(Applause Libretto Library). Book by Hugh Wheeler Introduction by Christopher Bond "Mr. Sondheim fearlessly explores psychic caverns where civilized people are not dying to go ... A naked Sweeney Todd stands revealed as a musical of naked rage, chewing up everyone in its path as it spits out blood and tears." Frank Rich, The New York Times * "A work of such scope and such daring that it dwarfs every other Broadway musical that even attempts to invite comparison." Rex Reed, New York Daily News

Sweeney Todd

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Peter Vennema

Virginia

The Story of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.

Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece, but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater. Its impact can still be imagined today. There were the theaters, open to the weather and featuring neither sets nor curtains, but equipped with dramatic special effects. There were the companies of actors--the leading men, the comedians, the boys who played women's roles--and the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.

Best of all, there was William Shakespeare, who rubbed shoulders with noblemen and royalty as well as with the rowdy crowds at the foot of the stage. He was suspected of involvement in a treasonous rebellion, and his last play literally brought down the house when cannon effects set fire to the famous Globe theater and it burned to the ground.

Award-winning collaborators Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema have once again created a feast of words and pictures to celebrate the life of a remarkable person from the pages of history: William Shakespeare, a man for all time."

Bard of Avon

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Michelle Knudsen

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

Feeling suspicious about a gorgeous high school librarian who has become the object of her best friend's affections, Cynthia discovers that the man is actually a demon who is sucking the life force from the entire student population. By the best-selling author of Library Lion. Simultaneous eBook.

Evil Librarian

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David Bret

A Scandalous Life

Marlene Dietrich called her "The most immoral woman who ever lived"; Cecil Beaton described her as a "wicked archangel"; but no one better summed up this fascinating woman than Tallulah herself in an unending succession of anecdotes and one-liners, peppered with expletives that became her trademark. Born in Alabama in 1903, she became a big star in London, England in the early 1920's. Branded "an unsafe and unsavory person" by the Hays commission in the 1930's her career went from tremendous stage success in such hits as The Little Foxes and Fallen Angels, to appearances in some of the worst plays ever written, which she turned into triumphs by improvising lewd and outrageous asides to satisfy the cravings of her largely gay audiences. Confessing to over 500 love affairs with both men and women, Tallulah married just once...to a man who divorced her citing mental cruelty. A headline writer's dream throughout her life, at the height of her fame she was said to drink two bottles of bourbon a day, smoke 100 cigarettes and take pills to help her sleep, pills to keep her awake, and pills to help her cope with the pills. But while there always seemed to be someone on hand to record Tallulah's indiscretions, the other side of her personality went largely unrecorded. She raised vast amounts of money for children's charities, delivered stringent speeches against communism and racial and sexual prejudice, and actively supported the presidential campaigns of two friends: Truman and Kennedy. In this highly entertaining book David Bret tells Tallulah's story in the only way it could be told: with shocking honesty and wit. What emerges is a vivid portrait of an immoral and wicked woman whowas every inch a star and remains one of the greatest legends this century has seen.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Colorado

Bonnie Holt Ambrose

A Workbook on Turn-of-the-Century Hats

Workbook on period on turn of the century hats.

The Little Hatmaking Book

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Kylie Adams

This book is in wonderful condition with slight aging around the page edges. The binding remains tight. 

Michigan

Things for B-movie queen Tatiana Fox are looking up when her straight-to-video career gets a boost after she's cast in a bona fide hit. But she can't begin shooting until she finds a nanny for her two-year-old twins. Jack Thorpe, a former Aussie soccer star in search of Hollywood stardom, takes the job. But what begins as a business arrangement quickly turns personal. (August)

Baby, Baby

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A Novel

This is the screenplay of the film starring Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. Ada, together with her nine-year-old illegitimate daughter Flora, and her piano, leave Scotland to arrive in the remote bush of 19th-century New Zealand for a marriage arranged by her father.

The Piano

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Harvey Fierstein

I did read this book and thoroughly enjoyed it from covered to cover. Any little creases are just from being in my bag or from reading it on the subway. It is full of wonderful theater anecdotes, as well as the history of off and off Broadway theater.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Memoir

"A ... memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner, [whose] stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting--Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day--and writing: La Cage Aux Folle, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one of today's most peerless performers, Harvey has never shared his own story until now"--

I Was Better Last Night

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William Shakespeare

Florida

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. These invaluable teaching-study guides also include: Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers. Fact quizzes, sample examinations, and other features that improve student comprehension of what each play is about.

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Lighting and Sound

Neil LaBute

Fat Pig

Arthur Miller; Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)

All My Sons

Cindy Brown

The Sound of Murder

Simon Gray

Butley

Mustapha Matura

Play Mas

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

Christopher Fowler

Full Dark House, book 1

Shepherd Mead; Stanley Bing

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Caryl Churchill

Far Away

Gregory Maguire

Wicked

J. Ellen Gainor

The Norton Anthology of Drama

Hugh Wheeler; Christopher Bond; Stephen Sondheim

Sweeney Todd

Peter Vennema

Bard of Avon

Michelle Knudsen

Evil Librarian

David Bret

Tallulah Bankhead

Shepherd Mead; Stanley Bing (Introduction by)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Bonnie Holt Ambrose

The Little Hatmaking Book

Kylie Adams

Baby, Baby

Jane Campion

The Piano

Harvey Fierstein

I Was Better Last Night

William Shakespeare

Merchant of Venice

Milton Cross

Milton Cross' Complete Stories of the Great Operas