Theater - History & Criticism
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Acting Out: How a Prison Theatre Workshop Broke Free
$27.95 Add to cartWhen Richard Hoehler first walked through the doors of a medium security prison in upstate New York, he assumed it would be a one-time thing. As a busy freelance writer, actor and teacher he had nonet
- Author: Hoehler, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1493085557
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Add to cartHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York
$35.00 Read moreBeyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians… [more below]
- Series: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
- Author: Elliott, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389190
- Language: English
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A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe
$23.95 Read more- Series: Social and Economic Studies #36
- Author: Brookes, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0919666590
- Language: English
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The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater
$25.95 Read moreThis volume gathers sixty years of essays, speeches, and manifestos by the founding mother of the resident professional theatre movement. As a founder and artistic director of the flagship Arena Stage
- Author: Fichandler, Zelda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1559369752
- Language: English
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Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater
$35.00 Read moreChicago is a bona fide theater town, bursting with an explosive, innovative vitality that’s fed every sector of the entertainment industry–from Hollywood to Broadway to Studio 8H–for as long as it’s… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1572842342
- Language: English
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Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
$34.95 Read moreAn updated paperback version of the book heralded as “a new benchmark in Marx scholarship” by the Los Angeles Times
Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed the- Author: Bader, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0810145758
- Language: English
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Theater for Beginners
$14.95 Add to cart“One of the strongest directors out there–an artist committed to making us see the world for what it is.” — New Yorker
Maxwell “belong[s] to the top tier of avant-garde auteurs in New York.” — Jaso- Author: Maxwell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1559364866
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Read moreHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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Journey to Mexico
$34.00 Add to cartOn 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls of Mexico City to the … [more below]
- Author: Artaud, Antonin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: March 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1940625645
- Language: English
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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
$14.95 Add to cart120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. Captions.
- Series: Dover Books on Fine Art
- Author: Perzynski, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440141
- Language: English
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Brainteasers for Broadway Geniuses: 500 Puzzlers to Perplex Even the Biggest Fans
$34.43 Add to cartFilichia presents brainteasers that require more than an ordinary knowledge of Broadway facts that will send even the most seasoned theater lovers looking for answers.
- Author: Filichia, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074954
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Oppressed
$17.95 Add to cart“Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is ‘at home’ now wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, co… [more below]
- Author: Boal, Augusto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0930452496
- Language: English
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Rent
$39.95 Read moreIn these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can’t: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds.
Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broad
- Author: Larson, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 21 1997
- ISBN10: 0688154379
- Language: English
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100 Plays to Save the World
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a guide to one hundred plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis
100 Plays to Save the World is a book to provoke as well as inspire–to start co
- Author: Freestone, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1636701442
- Language: English
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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George
$25.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with George Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broad- Author: Lapine, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1250849136
- Language: English
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Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
$30.28 Add to cartAvailable for the First Time in Paperback!
From Aristotle’s Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould’s landmark work,- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Gerould, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1557835276
- Language: English
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Everything about Theatre–Student Text
$20.95 Add to cartThe purpose of a high school drama or theatre arts program is to introduce students to as many aspects of drama as possible, to allow them to experience for themselves the diversity and excitement of … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 1, 1996
- ISBN10: 1566080193
- Language: English
