Penguin Group USA Inc, January 2000. Paper Back. Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene with the premiere of BASH at NYC's Douglas Fairbanks Theater in 1999 in a wildly praised production that featured Calista Flockhart, Paul Rudd, and Ron Eldard. It went on to play at the Almeida..... More
Dial Press, February 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. A timeless collection of essays about the theatre by the celebrated biographer and drama critic at "The New Yorker," Theatre criticism, writes John Lahr in his introduction to "Light Fantastic," should conjure "the life of the theatre as well as the life of..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, June 1997. Trade Paperback. John Lahr describes the lives and careers of playwrights, directors and performers, providing a vivid backdrop to his critique of particular productions in this book of theatrical criticism, history and gossip. He also makes the reader feel present at the run-up to an..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and..... More
Pathfinder Press / A Merit Book, January 1971. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First paperback printing. Some darkening and stains to cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. [200 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, December 2010. Hardcover. In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959)..... More
Haus Publishing, May 2012. Paper Back. In 2005, a group of actors in Kabul performed Shakespeare's Love s Labour's Lost to the cheers of Afghan audiences and the raves of foreign journalists. For the first time in years, men and women had appeared onstage together. The future held no limits..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. From director, playwright, and screenwriter Arthur Laurents--author of 'Gypsy, West Side Story, Rope, ' and 'The Snake Pit, ' among others--comes a dazzling portrait of his world and of the artists, directors, personalities, and actors who came of age after the Second..... More
Smith & Kraus, December 2013. Trade Paperback. The corners are bumped. The text is clean and the binding tight. More
Tulane University, 1968. Soft Cover. Octavo with tanned spine. Mild foxing. Marginal tanning/foxing to (blank, white) back cover. Previous owner's name inked across top of first inside page. [119 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, April 1989. Hardcover. This book traces the career of the Russian revolutionary theater director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, from his early years as a founding member of the Moscow Art Theater with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, through his Symbolist period, his experiments with commedia dell'arte and other popular forms, and..... More
Applause Books, April 2004. Paper Back. (Applause Books). A cycle of eleven episodes told in Story Theater form, a narrator speaking and life-sized puppets performing simultaneously, The Greek Myths tells the story of Greek mythology from the first moments of creation through its version of the story of the flood..... More
Theatre Communications Group, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play. Now a major motion picture! A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people. --TimeOut New York..... More
Crown, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Emerging at last from six years of legal entanglements involving the Tennesee Williams estate, this intimate and important portrait of Tennesee Williams, written with all the colorful detail and personal insight of a well-crafted novel, spans the unknown years of the playwright's life, as he..... More
Princeton Architectural Press, August 2004. Soft Cover. Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "reality television," there was Times Square. For a century, it has stood as the blazing Crossroads of the World; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry, but always spectacular epicenter of American commercial culture. Times Square..... More
Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, October 1992. Trade Paperback. More
the modern library, January 1937. Cloth. The jacket has a 2.5 inch tear on the spine, also other chipping and tiny cuts. Price clipped. Mylar wrapped to preserve. There is an ex-libris plate on the front paste down endpaper, minor edge rubbing on the boards. More
W. W. Norton & Co., January 1970. Cloth. Bound in black oil cloth with gold lettering along the spine .2nd printing. Jacket price clipped but otherwise crisp and clean. More
Dutton Books, June 1993. Hardcover. The daughter of one of America's most prolific and enduring composers (Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) pens an engaging portrait of her father, her family, and the life they shared in the giant shadow cast by his fame. Photographs..... More
Red Wheel Weiser & Conari Press, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Catalogs Shakespeare's life, the Elizabethan era, his use of language, actors and actresses starring in film versions of his plays, memorable lines and expressions, and theaters and acting companies devoted to Shakespeare. More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2010. Hardcover. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical South Pacific has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in..... More
Expansion Press, January 1986. Paper Back. Solid spine. Clean interiors. Mild foxing/discoloration. More
Turtle Bay Books: imprint of Random House, Inc., November 1992. Hardcover. More
Vintage, May 1993. Trade Paperback. In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat..... More
Grove Press, 1983. Soft Cover. The Woods, described by the Chicago Daily News as a "beautifully conceived love story," is a modern dramatic parable in which a young man and woman who spend a night in his family's cabin experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled by..... More
