Company: A Musical Comedy
Random House, January 1970. Book Club. Hardcover. Octavo. In edgeworn jacket. Black textured paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine and blind stamped RH colophon front board. Book Club edition. [118 pages]. More
Drama
Raisin in the Sun
Random House Inc, September 1995. Hardcover. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically..... More
Aristophanes: Four Comedies
Mariner Books, October 1962. Trade Paperback. New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index. More
Olivier at Work: The National Years: An Illustrated Memoir
Routledge, December 1990. Trade Paperback. One of British actor Sir Laurence Olivier's greatest achievements was to set up The Royal National Theatre and lead it from 1963 to 1973. Olivier's closest colleagues have written 36 short essays, accompanied by rarely seen photographs, celebrating the actor and his working methods. Compiled..... More
Quartermass II A Play for Television in Six Parts (Complete & Unabridged)
Penguin, 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean & sound with slight shelfwear. [174 pages]. More
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Tale University Press, 1962. Trade Paperback. underlining and marginalia throughout. More
Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1)
Penguin Classics, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life..... More
J.B.: A Play in Verse
Houghton Mifflin, August 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. J. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses..... More
A study of the Drama
Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press, Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Mild edgewear. Foxing and stain spotting to textblock edge. Previous owners name written in ballpoint ffep. Tanning to end pges. [320 pages]. More
Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods
Smith & Kraus, February 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Sanford Meisner on Acting
Random House Inc, June 1987. Trade Paperback. This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Throughout these pages Meisner is..... More
Under Milk Wood A Play For Voices NDP73
A New Directions Paperback. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 10th printing with shelfwear. [107 pages]. More
Final Dress 1955/1974 (A Memoir)
Touchstone Book / Published by Simon & Schuster, 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First Touchstone paperback edition. Complete number string: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Mild shelf wear. Some light scars and scratches to cover, especially front. Superficial vertical crease running down center..... More
Theatre of the Absurd
Vintage, January 2004. Trade Paperback. In 1953, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type..... More
Shakespeare's Stagecraft
Cambridge University Press, October 1967. Trade Paperback. Outlines the potentialities and limitations of the Elizabethan playhouse and how Shakespeare exploited them, discussing the plays as a sequence of stage effects planned to enrich, modify and reinforce each other. Spine is creased. Minor shelf wear on head and foot of spine..... More
Shakespeare's Life and Times: A Pictorial Record (Princeton Legacy Library, 1782)
Princeton University Press, July 1975. First Thus. Paper Back. This handsomely illustrated biography provides a dramatic, human view of Shakespeare as he lived his life. Narrative and pictures follow Shakespeare from his birth and boyhood in Stratford, through his career in the London theatre, and back to Stratford during the..... More
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
David R. Godine, January 1976. Book Club. Hardcover. {5 & 3/4'} In jacket with edgewear and creased upper left corner. Burgundy paper covered boards. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep.[92 pages]. More
The Threepenny Opera
Grove Press, 1964-06-01. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Suddenly Last Summer
Signet, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Very cool MTI edition with front cover featuring image of Elizabeth Taylor from movie and back cover featuring production still of Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift; book contains 8 pages of production stills from the movie; copy has expected wear and yellowing. More
At the Royal Court: 25 years of the English Stage Company
Amber Lane Press, January 1981. First Edition. Cloth. {8 & 1/4 x 10'} Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. Jacket is missing. [201 pages]. More
Shakespeare Sounded Soundly: The Verse Structure and the Language : A Handbook for Students, Actors, and Directors
Capra Pr, January 1988. Hardcover. Octavo in edgeworn jacket. Black textured paper covered boards. Gold & white lettering along spine. Previous owner's name written in ballpoint on front pastedown. Sound binding. [227 pages]. More
Much Ado: A Summer with a Repertory Theater Company
Agate Midway, October 2016. First Edition. Cloth. "Engaging and insightful." --Booklist Much Ado, written by award-winning journalist Michael Lenehan, gives readers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the lauded American Players Theatre's 2014 production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout has called the..... More
The Threepenny Opera in a New Translation
Vintage, January 1977. Book Club. Hardcover. Octavo with sun lightened jacket. Tan paper covered boards with black lettering along spine edge. Previous owner's name written in ink front free end papers. [81 pages]. More
Brendan Behan's New York, With drawings by Paul Hogarth
Hutchinson of London, 1964. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 10'} In edgeworn jacket. Flap not clipped. UK edition. Burgunday cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated end pages with darkened spine. [159 pages]. More
Hamlet
Washington Square Press, August 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant..... More
