#history #music #theatre #race #biography #worldwar2

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success-and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and the creators (including composer Eubie Blake and lyricist Noble Sissle) sowed the seeds of the Harlem jazz scene and paved the way for people of color on stage and screen, ultimately leading to productions such as West Side Story, Black Panther, and of course, Hamilton"--

Footnotes

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#paperback #french #theatre #theater #diderot This is in French. 

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Oregon

Denis Diderot (1713-1784), ne a Langres, est un ecrivain, philosophe et encyclopediste francais. Diderot fut un des grands animateurs intellectuels du XVIIIe siecle par sa curiosite, sa vaste culture, sa connaissance des langues, son esprit critique et sa force de travail. L'annee 1743 marque egalement le debut de la carriere litteraire de Diderot, par le biais de la traduction. Il traduit The Grecian History de Temple Stanyan. En 1745 parait sa traduction, largement augmentee de ses reflexions personnelles, d' An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit de Shaftesbury, sous le titre Essai sur le Merite et la Vertu, premier manifeste du glissement de Diderot de la foi chretienne vers le deisme, bientot confirme par la publication de sa premiere oeuvre originale, les Pensees Philosophiques en 1746. De 1746 a 1748, il collabore avec Marc-Antoine Eidous et Francois-Vincent Toussaint a la traduction du Medicinal Dictionnary de Robert James.

Paradoxe Sur le Comedien

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No rips, stains or tears. Edges may show slight wear from shelf life.

Pennsylvania

Dear Evan Hansen

#hardcover #musical #theatre #children #aging #love #humor #comedy #fiction #funny

North Carolina

A Novel

Mister Monkey

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#hardcover #brain-damage #theatre #Shakespeare #mental-illness 

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Minnesota

"After waking up in the hospital, Jaye returns to school to discover a mysteriously familiar boy in her class and the trappings of Shakespeare's plays all around her"--

Dreamers Often Lie

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Camryn Garrett

Colorado

Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.

Full Disclosure

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Jordan Tannahill

A deeply personal new play by Jordan Tannahill about mortality and the fragments that constitute a life.This is a pressed bruise. This is Greta Garbo's smile. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations, by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill, is an ode to mortality - that of the playwright's mother, his own, humankind's - a joyful and moving attempt to capture the objects, sensations, and experiences that make up a life. Through a lyrical and iterative text, five performers chronicle a life pulled through time, encountering meteorological phenomena, mythology, political calamity, pop culture, and everyday happenstance along the way. What accumulates is a staggering archive of images, sense memories, and voices asserting that here lived, for a time, a woman.

Declarations

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Texas

#hardcover #fiction #africanamericanwomen #youngadult #ya #romance #theatre #botm 

#nonfiction #performingarts #arts #paperback #shakespeare #theatre #art #england 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The World of Shakespeare

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Scholastic, Inc. Staff

New York

Art, music, drama/theater

The History of Actors, Singers, Costumes, Audiences, and Scenery

The World of Theater

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Horton Foote

Kentucky

Houston businessman Will Kidder and his wife Lily Dale struggle to cope with their grown son's suicide and the secret kept by their son's former roommate.

The Young Man from Atlanta

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Harold Pinter

In a drama set in two bedrooms and a dark space, a man on his deathbed reviews his life, loves, and betrayals with his wife, while his two conspiratorial and emotionless sons sit in the shadows rationalizing their love-hate relationship with their now dying father and their inability to take steps to end the estrangement.

Moonlight

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The Last Yankee & Broken Glass

Israel Horovitz

Two New Plays by Israel Horovitz

Unexpected Tenderness and Fighting over Beverley

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Brian Friel

Three characters - all on stage throughout - speak directly to the audience, giving three points of view to the same story. Molly, blind since infancy, tells of her world before an operation to try to restore her sight. Her husband, itinerant champion of good causes, talks of his passion to help her. Her once famous eye surgeon, now a whsky-sodden recluse in Donegal, sees the operation as his chance to reclaim his reputation.

Molly Sweeney

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Richard Nelson

'The barbarians are sweeping over us and all we do is kiss their ass.' An Englishman and his family live far-flung across the vast American continent. Brought together by tragedy, they find comfort in attacking their adopted country, ridiculing its crude ways and lack of standards. Humour and irony as well as the sense of loss and longing permeate this story of exiles unable to address a world that is passing by.

New England

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Joe Masteroff

Jerry Boue

Sheldon Harnick

She Loves Me

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Sam Shepard

Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone is cutting someone else's throat."

Simpatico

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August Strindberg

The Father

David Hare

In conflict with government, torn with internal dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, the Church of England finds itself enjoying unwelcome publicity. David Hare's play, which details the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission in South London, opened to universal acclaim.

Racing Demon

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Tom Zeigler

Grace and Glorie

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#play #women #feminist #theatre #british #carylchurchill 

Marlene hosts a dinner part in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past- Isabella Bird (1831- 1904), the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258), the mediaeval Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan, the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, and obedient wife out of Chaucer. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the more pressing dilemmas of Marlene herself. A classic of contemporary theatre, Churchill's play is seen as a benchmark for ushering a new generation of playwrights after it was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982. Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind. (John Peter, Sunday Times) This volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of the various interpretations, notes on individual words and phrases and photographs from stage productions.

Top Girls

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Tim Donohue

Jim Patterson

A Realistic Guide

Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facets certain to enlighten students contemplating a theater career, as well as inform counselors, teachers, and parents of available opportunities and the demands of each path. Theater Careers offers valuable details not readily available elsewhere, including - Dozens of informative job descriptions surveying the impressive variety of theater careers, both on and off the stage - Statistics on the working and earning prospects of various careers as drawn from the best sources in the business - Thoughtful assessments of the value of education and training choices, including the most meaningful way to look at the costs of college--estimating net costs, which is seldom described elsewhere--and how to choose a school Straightforward and objective, Theater Careers is an ideal reference for those seeking careers in the theater. Armed with this information, readers will be better equipped to pursue choices that best lead to satisfying and secure employment in the rewarding field of the dramatic arts.

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Footnotes

Denis Diderot

Paradoxe Sur le Comedien

Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul

Dear Evan Hansen

Francine Prose

Mister Monkey

Jacqueline West

Dreamers Often Lie

Camryn Garrett

Full Disclosure

Jordan Tannahill

Declarations

Camryn Garrett

Full Disclosure

Camryn Garrett

Full Disclosure

Anna Claybourne

The World of Shakespeare

Scholastic, Inc. Staff

The World of Theater

Horton Foote

The Young Man from Atlanta

Harold Pinter

Moonlight

Arthur Miller

The Last Yankee & Broken Glass

Israel Horovitz

Unexpected Tenderness and Fighting over Beverley

Brian Friel

Molly Sweeney

Richard Nelson

New England

Joe Masteroff; Jerry Boue; Sheldon Harnick

She Loves Me

Sam Shepard

Simpatico

Richard Nelson

The Father

David Hare

Racing Demon

Tom Zeigler

Grace and Glorie

Caryl Churchill; Bill Naismith (Editor); Non Worrall (Commentaries by); Chris Megson (Contribution by); Jenny Stevens (Contribution by); Nick Worrall (Editor)

Top Girls

Tim Donohue; Jim Patterson

Theater Careers