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Applause for a Cloud 9781939568991
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Sayumi Kamakura's Applause for a Cloud uses the haiku form to attend to everyday life with a cosmological acuteness, invoking wonder on macro and micro scales.Sayumi Kamakura juxtaposes a surreal... -
The Art of Horror Movies: Revised and Updated by Steven Jones
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.54This magnificent companion to The Art of Horror looks at the entire history of the horror film, from the silent era right up to the latest releases and trends. This revised edition includes more... -
Monologues from Shakespeare's First Folio for Older Men: The Tragedies by Neil Freeman
Booksplease Price: $20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493056989Author Neil FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot... -
Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett: A One-Act Play by Anne & Emmett LLC 9781493052554
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.83Anne & Emmett is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a... -
The Worst We Can Find: MST3K, RiffTrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies by Dale Sherman 9781493063918
Booksplease Price: $27.97Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and its various offshoots, such as Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic, have been making fun of movies for over thirty years. In the process, they captured the spirit... -
Brainteasers for Broadway Geniuses: 500 Puzzlers to Perplex Even the Biggest Fans by Peter Filichia 9781493074952
Booksplease Price: $25.43BRAINTEASERS FOR BROADWAY GENIUSES: (OR... QUESTIONS THAT WILL SEND YOU GOOGLING)Book InformationISBN 9781493074952Author Peter FilichiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe... -
The Playwright's Toolbox by Justin Maxwell 9781493077823
Booksplease Price: $27.97THE PLAYWRIGHT'S TOOLKITBook InformationISBN 9781493077823Author Justin MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot Press -
Letters to a Young Playwright: Practical and Impractical Advice on the Art of Playwriting Adam Szymkowicz 9781493088195
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.31Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a working playwright. At a time when the entire business model of American theatre seems on the verge of implosion—and most dramatists survive only through... -
The Taking of New York City: Crime on the Screen and in the Streets in 1970s Big Apple Andrew Rausch 9781493078714
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.41THE TAKING OF NEW YORK CITY: CRIME ON THE SCREEN AND IN THE STREETS IN THE 1970S BIG APPLEBook InformationISBN 9781493078714Author Andrew RauschFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint ApplausePublisher... -
Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean Jason Colavito 9781493085651
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.24JAMES DEAN: THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN REBELBook InformationISBN 9781493085651Author Jason ColavitoFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot Press -
The Best American Short Plays 2018–2019 by John Patrick Bray
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.08Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other. Revolving around the theme of 'this is who we are,"... -
Becoming Nick and Nora: The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy by Rob Kozlowski
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.69As Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the husband-and-wife team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic... -
Small Explosions: Bold and Combustible New Monologues for All Ages and Genders by Adam Szymkowicz 9781493071371
Booksplease Price: $17.11One minute: that's all the time an actor needs to make a scorching impression-to pull in an audience, make them care, laugh, cry, remind them that life is worth living, or help them forget that life... -
Letters from an Actor by William Redfield 9781493084609
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.54The legendary 1964 Broadway run of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud is one of the most famous productions of Shakespeare's most important play. Audacious for its time in concept and execution, it... -
Cinema of Swords: A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes) by Lawrence Ellsworth 9781493065622
Booksplease Price: $51.21Cinema of Swords is a combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw... -
Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out Jennifer Ashley Tepper 9781493080311
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.64WOMEN WRITING MUSICALS: THE LEGACY THAT THE HISTORY BOOKS LEFT OUTBook InformationISBN 9781493080311Author Jennifer Ashley TepperFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot... -
The SNL Companion: An Unofficial Guide to the Seasons, Sketches, and Stars of Saturday Night Live Stephen Tropiano 9781493072606
Booksplease Price: $41.06SATURDAY NIGHT FOREVERBook InformationISBN 9781493072606Author Stephen TropianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot Press -
The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 by Lawrence Harbison 9781493060450
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.38The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theatre enthusiasts looking for new and compelling... -
The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 by Lawrence Harbison 9781493053315
Booksplease Price: $21.78Renowned editor Larry Harbison brings together approximately one-hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays. The... -
The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965 by Barry Monush
Booksplease Price: $98.97For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen... -
The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me by Tom Santopietro
Booksplease Price: $20.91Fifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The... -
She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty by Lawrence Harbison
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.38She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women Over Forty is a collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. About Honor... -
![The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] by Adam Long 9781493077298](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2022011/2021549/9781493077298__89728.1708522094.jpg?c=1 "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] by Adam Long 9781493077298")
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] by Adam Long 9781493077298
Booksplease Price: $18.37TheatreAbout the AuthorAdam Long (London), Daniel Singer (Southern California), and Jess Winfield (Hollywood) are the original members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.Book InformationISBN... -
James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze by Thom Shubilla 9781493079766
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.08JAMES BOND AND THE SIXTIES SPY CRAZEBook InformationISBN 9781493079766Author Thom ShubillaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot Press -
SHEMP!: The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy Burt Kearns 9781493074211
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.96SHEMP! THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE THREE STOOGES' SHEMP HOWARD, THE FACE OF FILM COMEDYBook InformationISBN 9781493074211Author Burt KearnsFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot... -
The Real Life Of Laurence Olivier Roger Lewis 9781493086856
Booksplease Price: $26.70A captivating, seductive and monumental celebration of the life and career of one of the greatest actors of the 20th century.Book InformationISBN 9781493086856Author Roger LewisFormat PaperbackPage... -
Morphenomenal: How the Power Rangers Took Over the World Joshua Moore 9781493081615
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.38When it first appeared on American television sets in 1993, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was like nothing else on TV. The brainchild of Israeli music producer Haim Saban, the show stitched together... -
I AM MCLOVIN: How Superbad Became the Biggest Comedy Hit of its Generation Andrew Buss 9781493079827
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.20When Superbad was released on August 17th in 2007, it proved itself to be a massive success right out of the gate, especially for those in the film's target millennial demographic. The film wound up... -
The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020 by Lawrence Harbison 9781493053254
Booksplease Price: $21.47Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays... -
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies, Revised and Updated by Ted Chapin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.69Have you ever been curious about what it takes to get an original Broadway musical to opening night? Ted Chapin, college student at the time, had a front row seat at the creation of Stephen... -
The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 by Lawrence Harbison
Booksplease Price: $20.91The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison. This volume is ideal for theater enthusiasts looking for new and compelling... -
LineStorm Playwrights Present Go Play Outside: Twenty-Five Short Plays Written for the Great Outdoors by Lolly Ward 9781493061433
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.16LineStorm Playwrights is a well-known group of twelve accomplished playwrights from the Portland, Oregon, area who have had their works performed around the world and who also collaborate on and... -
Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War by David Craig 9781493079179
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.41On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie The Day After premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear... -
Janet Langhart Cohen's Anne & Emmett: A One-Act Play by Anne & Emmett LLC 9781493056040
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.45Anne & Emmett is an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the thirteen-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a... -
When the British Musical Ruled the World by Robert Sellers 9781493071333
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.26For decades, British stage musicals struggled to compete against the dazzling Broadway productions that came roaring in from across the pond. But that tide was turned at last in 1978, when Tim Rice... -
God's Fools: Laughing Saints, Delirious Prophets, and the Sacred Makers of Comedy Jason Crawford 9781493080595
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.64From the self-abasements of Charlie Chaplin and Lenny Bruce's provocations to the present-day culture warring over figures like Dave Chappelle and Hannah Gadsby, comedians have always been not simply... -
Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters: What Harper Lee's Book and the Iconic American Film Mean to Us Today by Tom Santopietro 9781493052523
Booksplease Price: $27.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493052523Author Tom SantopietroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe... -
The Rest of the Story: A Life Completed by Arthur Laurents 9781493065226
Booksplease Price: $27.01Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy, Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo. He also garnered impressive... -
Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein: The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks Bruce G. Hallenbeck 9781493078004
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.02BLAZING SADDLES MEETS YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: HTE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE YEAR OF MEL BROOKSBook InformationISBN 9781493078004Author Bruce G. HallenbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint... -
Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother Robert S. Bader 9781493087969
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $30.73Zeppo was the Marx Brother who didn't want to go into the family business. A juvenile delinquent in his teen years, before joining his brothers on stage, Zeppo balanced two careers: auto mechanic and...