Wings: A Play
Hill and Wang, 1981. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Darkened at margins. Curled cover at fore-edge side. Unmarked interiors. Third printing. [78 pp.]. More
Drama
Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition
Farrar Straus & Giroux / Hill & Wang / Mermaid Dramabook, June 1960. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, bright, sound without interior markings. [89 pp.]. More
The Dream of Peter Mann -- PL.26
Penguin Books, January 1960. First Trade. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild foxing. Inked doodle inside half title page. Sticker residue front cover. (93 pp.). More
Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the..... More
Three French Farces (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Books, January 1973. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Darkening of cover verso and margins to internal pages. Fingerprint stains. [288 pages]. More
Bash : 3 Plays
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
Light Fantastic
Dial Press, March 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
Light Fantastic
Dial Press, March 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
Light Fantastic (Revised)
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
Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles
Overlook Press, September 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. In Show and Tell, John Lahr, "probably the most intelligent and insightful writer on theater today" (The New York Times Book Review), reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahr's utterly winning and incisive profiles probe some of the..... More
The Mod Donna and Scyklon Z: Plays of Women's Liberation
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
To Broadway, To Life!: The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick (Broadway Legacies)
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
Frank Langella's Cyrano
Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, May 1999. Trade Paperback. "CYRANO need not have diminished emotional impact when divorced from the grand acting style for which the play was conceived. Its lyrical scenes still etch a portrait of Cyrano as a man of uncompromising bravery except in matters of the heart. They..... More
Theories of Comedy - Critical Writings From the Classical Period to the Present
Anchor Doubleday, January 1964. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original in well worn mass market with slightly cocked spine. Sun lightened at spine. Previous owner's name is written in ink upon half title page. {529 pages with two page list of then available Anchor titles.]. More
Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Revisited by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage and Robert Wilson
Continuum, August 2001. Hardcover. Between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook; Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage; and Hamlet - A Monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version - at least in..... More
The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2013
Smith & Kraus, December 2013. Trade Paperback. The corners are bumped. The text is clean and the binding tight. More
Molière: the comedy of unreason (Tulane studies in Romance languages and literature, no. 2)
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
Vsevolod Meyerhold (Directors in Perspective)
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
SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES AND OTHER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
Chatto and Windus, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. First UK in brown cloth. Gold lettering (starting to fade) on spine. Top textblock edge tinted with dark brown. Top corner of textblock appears chewed possibly by a rodent. Dustjacket is missing. Mildly bowed boards. [232 pages]. More
Alfred Jarry: The Man With the Axe
Panjandrum, March 1984. Paper Back. Inked name on inside of front cover. More
The Greek Myths: Puppet Plays for Children from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Applause Books)
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
Dear Evan Hansen (Tcg Edition)
Theatre Communications Group, May 2017. Paper Back. Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical "Dear Evan Hansen lodges in your head long after you've seen it or heard it or read it. It feels like a pure expression from young writers at a crossroad of coming to terms..... More
Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
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
Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. The bedrock, authoritative account of the little-known early life of Tennessee Williams. "Plainly a work of distinction...It will be great service to Williams's reputation and among other things may bring more of the young to an appreciation of his achievement."--Arthur..... More
Robin Babb : Actor's Apprentice
Gardners Books, August 2003. Hardcover. More
