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The Alchemy of Theatre, The Divine Science: Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration (Applause Books)

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Applause: October 2006

Seller ID: 323122

ISBN: 1557836981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The editor of Playbill's At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields. Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights: playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman. Also featured are Chita Rivera and Edward Albee; costume designer William Ivey Long; set designer Robin Wagner and director and choreographer Susan Stroman.
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Knickerbocker Holiday a Musical Comedy in Two Acts

By: Anderson, Maxwell

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Anderson House: January 1938

Seller ID: 65305

ISBN: B00085LLIW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Radio Family (The German List)

By: Bachmann, Ingeborg

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Seagull Books: July 2014

Seller ID: 291140

ISBN: 0857421913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her poems, short stories, and novels, and won numerous awards for her work. Sadly, her life ended abruptly in October of 1973 when a lit cigarette burned down her apartment causing Bachmann to suffer severe burns that would eventually prove fatal. The author was only forty-seven, and her tragic death left what could have been a long and lustrous writing...
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Six Elizabethan Plays: 1585-1635

By: Bald, R. C.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div: June 1963

Seller ID: 66344

ISBN: 0395051355

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht

By: Bennett, Benjamin

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press: October 1986

Seller ID: 66305

ISBN: 0801493919

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What Is Theatre?: Incorporating The Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967

By: Bentley, Eric

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: May 2000

Seller ID: 350885

ISBN: 0809096951

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Introduction by Donald Lyons
"What Is Theatre?," originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays cover the premieres of works by T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Jean Anouilh, and Arthur Miller, among others, as well as subjects as far-ranging as Charlie Chaplin and the Peking Opera--and each contains insights that are still relevant. "What Is Theatre?" is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what our American the...
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Opera (Rough Guides)

By: Boyden, Matthew

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Rough Guides: June 1997

Seller ID: 367104

ISBN: 1858281385

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Rough Guide to Opera is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four centuries of music drama. US News & World Report save that "this lively guide to plots and personalities, brings opera to the masses, " Features in the updated edition include biographical sketches of more than 150 composers, entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas both famous and obscure, and incisive CD reviews.
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History of the Theatre

By: Brockett, Oscar G.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon: April 1977

Seller ID: 283124

ISBN: 0205057748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

By: Brook, Peter

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Touchstone: June 1995

Seller ID: 348914

ISBN: 0684829576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influential stage director of the twentieth century.

As relevant as when it was first published in 1968, groundbreaking director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing a theatrical performance--of any scale. He describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to ...
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The seagull: A comedy

By: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Dramatic Pub. Co: January 1992

Seller ID: 298793

ISBN: 0871291231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Romeo and Juliet: A Practical Guide for Teaching Shakespeare in the Middle Grade Classroom (Shakespeare Plays in the Classroom)

By: Chirinian, Alain

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Good Apple: November 1997

Seller ID: 364813

ISBN: 1564179923

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Invite William Shakespeare into your classroom These comprehensive resources provide everything you need for intensive, motivating units on Shakespearean drama. Help students befriend Shakespeare as they "rebuild" the Globe Theater, create character scrapbooks, write play reviews, concoct a "love potion, " conduct character interviews, and conclude their study with a Renaissance feast
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The Power of the Actor

By: Chubbuck, Ivana

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Gotham: August 2005

Seller ID: 322187

ISBN: 1592401538

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood.

The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor guides you to dynamic and effective results. For many of today's major talents, the Chubbuck Technique is the leading edge of acting for the twenty-first century. Ivana Chubbuck has developed a curriculum tha...
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William Congreve

By: Congreve, William. Alex. Charles Ewald, Editor

Price: $19.95

Publisher: A. A. Wyn: January 1949

Seller ID: 66289

ISBN: B000IGJKMA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The New Milton Cross' Complete Stories of the Great Operas

By: Cross, Milton

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Doubleday: October 1955

Seller ID: 259630

ISBN: 0385043244

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Fundamentals of Play Directing

By: Dean, Alexander

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Holt Rinehart Winston: January 1989

Seller ID: 150101

ISBN: 003014843X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An introduction to modern stage directing. Focuses on fundamentals, with an emphasis on the director's interaction with actors. The material is organized in a step-by-step teaching format, from explanations to demonstrations and exercises.
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ANATOMY OF DRAMA

By: Esslin, Martin

Price: $4.59

Publisher: Hill and Wang: December 1977

Seller ID: 348911

ISBN: 0809005506

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

print price and ISBN with bar code on back cover
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Complete Book of the American Musical Theater

By: Ewen, David

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: January 1965

Seller ID: 366624

ISBN: B0045QHQSO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Producing Theatre: A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide (Limelight)

By: Farber, Donald C.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Limelight: August 2004

Seller ID: 353311

ISBN: 0879101032

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For the professional and student here is a basic guide to raising money obtaining rights and bringing a play to the stage. Appendices include actual examples of commonly used legal forms and contracts. ...likely to remain for some time to come the authoritative reference in its field. Variety
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