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vi, 297 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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The 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 short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time.
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531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him"--
"Ever since Ma Rainey's Black Bottom captivated Broadway audiences, August Wilson established himself as the most important American playwright of the last fifty years. His decade-by-decade cycle of ten plays about the African American experience in the twentieth century put Black...
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explore the life and legacy of August Wilson, the playwright some call America's Shakespeare, who chronicled the twentieth-century black experience. Features James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, new dramatic readings, and rare footage.
Explores the life and career of American playwright August Wilson.
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xiv, 393 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details, production history, biography of the playwright, literary aspects of the drama, critical reaction to the play, major awards, the play's influence,...
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480 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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""An original voice, appealing quirkiness, and an astute sense of what makes people tick."-Daily News (New York)" There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation."-The New York Times. With her quartet of plays set in small-town Vermont, twenty-nine-year-old Annie Baker is making a big impact on the American theater. Circle Mirror Transformation, which takes...
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77 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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A two-act play written in 1979-80 by Tennessee Williams concerning the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. A critical and commercial failure, it was Williams' last play to debut on Broadway during his lifetime. The play takes place over a one-day visit Scott pays the institutionalized Zelda at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, with a series of flashbacks to their marriage in the twenties.
55) Six plays
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494 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Six acclaimed plays by Lillian Hellman span nearly twenty years of the American theater from 1934 to 1951.
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New Directions paperbook volume 217
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xii, 238 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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