Dramatists
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
$17.99 Add to cartBill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship–updated with a new i
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062564625
- Language: English
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Arthur Miller: American Witness
$26.00 Read moreA great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights
“Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Lahr, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0300234929
- Language: English
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A Man of Much Importance: The Art and Life of Terrence McNally
$36.95 Read moreFor nearly sixty years, playwright Terrence McNally has been a force in American theater. His work, encompassing plays, musicals, teleplays, and opera, has been performed around the world. McNally is
- Author: Byrne, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493053779
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy
$35.00 Read moreIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the ‘Birthplace’ – remains the chief shrine. It’s not as r
- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1350409359
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$21.99 Add to cartThe second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author.
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unf- Series: Back Bay Books
- Author: Hellman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0316352888
- Language: English
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Act One: An Autobiography
$25.00 Add to cartMoss Hart’s Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled wit… [more below]
- Author: Hart, Moss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050898
- Language: English
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Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
$19.95 Add to cartSam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including Tr
- Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: October 15, 2013
- ISBN10: 0292761961
- Language: English
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My Manservant and Me
$15.95 Add to cartA madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written f… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621521
- Language: English
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Smile: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cart* A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post‘s Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence *
From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize f- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1982150955
- Language: English
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of th- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0807039837
- Language: English
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Who Was William Shakespeare?
$6.99 Add to cartThe beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world’s most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Mannis, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 28, 2006
- ISBN10: 0448439042
- Language: English
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Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy
$27.95 Read moreA poignant, deliciously anecdotal account of a talented artist’s Oz-like journey in the worlds of Off-Broadway, Broadway, and Hollywood
The Tony Award-nominated writer of The Tale of the Allergist’s W- Author: Busch, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1637744145
- Language: English
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True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times
$30.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rol… [more below]
- Author: Greenfield, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0525575952
- Language: English
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Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint
$28.00 Add to cart*Winner of the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Life Writing*
“A wickedly entertaining” (The New York Times) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man’s relentless sear- Author: Durkee, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982127147
- Language: English
