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A much-anticipated biography-twenty years in the making-of the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture.In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny...

'A gentle, lyrical, Chekhovian evocation of the past, with that special unpretentious charm that special works sometimes have.' NEW YORK TIMES At an auto-parts warehouse in Brooklyn, life seems frozen in time: as workers of every age commute in,...

Adapted from Lewis Carroll Fantasy / More than 50 characters plus extras (doubling possible) / Ints./exts. Produced and revived on Broadway, this is the most successful dramatic version of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass: a journey into...

"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369633Author Aleshea HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

1986. Ghana's prestigious Aburi Girls Boarding School. Queen Bee Paulina and her crew excitedly await the arrival of the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter. It's clear that Paulina is in top position to take the title until her place is threatened by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081153Author Craig SodaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 328g

In celebration of the Tennessee Williams centennial in 2011, The Library of America presents its acclaimed two-volume edition of his plays in a collector's boxed set. Gathering thirty-two works written from the 1930s to the 1980s, this collection...

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn't pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, the network seize on their newfound populist prophet, and...

The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order. Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Drama) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781559362665Author Sarah RuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874408423Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 76gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105589Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

With his creativity, acrobatic talent and sheer speed, Joao Felix can make top-level football look effortless. But Joao's journey to the top has not been easy. As a skinny kid he'd already given up on football once, before harnessing his inner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107774Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1312Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1576gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803696287Author Gloria Hamilton-FordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365260Author John Patrick ShanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

Set in the midst of the Cold War, Lee Blessing's powerful and startling play dramatises a stand-off between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators as they battle for supremacy. Full of tension and humour A Walk in the Woods shows how the relationship between...

"Son, that girl, she's a nice girl, but she don't study accounting. Her lips move when she read the horoscope - that ain't the mark of a future accountant!" Since his wife died, ex-cop Walter 'Pops' Washington has filled his palatial rent-controlled...

A play about what it means to be a "girl" in this day and age. The girls in this play show great strength, revealing their vulnerabilities in language that is honest and extremely compelling. Split into three sections, the characters speak entirely in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375398985Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study GuidesPublisher Gale, Study GuidesWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)...

Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity. Queerness in musicals challenges their typical heteronormativity but...

In a Gotham-like city, a depletion of the Earth's water supply has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The privilege to pee is regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging for one of humanity's most basic needs. From...

Go where there's violence. Silicon Valley. The future. A rocket launches. Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. He sets out to change the world. Only violence stands in his way. Christopher Shinn's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363648Author David AdjmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

"The greatest American playwright of his generation" (New York Magazine) Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award as the best play of the year. A Lie of the Mind is described by its author as a "love ballad...a little legend about love". Frank Rich of...

I'm a killer I told youI told you that all alongYou were the dummy to believeI could ever be anything elseTwo teenagers fall in love on Long Island. There's fun and dancing, sports and team spirit, there's the woods and beer and physical hard work. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010507Author Frederick KnottFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The Rose Tattoo is larger than life-a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama-it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has ever been in love or ever will be. Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina delle Rosa has withdrawn from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525618645Author Harvey FiersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

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In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But how serious an offence this is, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762772Author Matthew BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrights Cryptogram: "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781336038Author Jane LogieFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710384Author James IjamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571199839Author Rebecca GilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber & FaberWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 140mm *...

History and science collide in the fascinating history of anatomy, from artistic explorations by Leonardo da Vinci and the full-body papier-mache model produced by Louis Auzoux to the crimes of William Burke and William Hare in 19th-century Edinburgh. ...

Characters: 4 male, 2 female Tony Award Winner, Best Play 1983 Includes: The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First! "A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...

Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his...