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THE BIG PICTURE

PRIME TIME CLOSET A HISTORY OF GAYS AND LESBIANS ON TV

THE ACTOR AND THE TEXT

ONE-ACT COMEDIES OF MOLIERE

THE THEORY OF THE MODERN STAGE

WORDS WITH MUSIC: CREATING THE BROADWAY MUSICAL LIBRETTO

Heaven's Gate, by comparison, was a party in Paradise. Some of cinema's legendary artists - renowned for their work with Fellini, Godard, Fassbinder, and Herzog among others - would unwittingly unite to create the greatest financial disaster in movie history: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Andrew Yule goes behind the scenes of Gilliam's epic and unravels, twist by agonizing twist, the contorted drama which saw the original budget of $23.5 million rocket to an astronomical $46 million - making it one of the most expensive features in history. Hardcover.

NATIONAL BLACK DRAMA ANTHOLOGY

Lawrence J. Quirk delves into every personal and professional aspect of Bob Hope''s long, complex and dramatic life; rising by sheer dint of will to great wealth and fame. Why did Hope become so identified with sponsoring the Vietnam War? What''s the real scoop on his relationship with Bing Crosby? How far astray did Hope''s frankly oversexed nature lead him from the marriage he successfully maintained with Dolores for over sixty years? Quirk writes about Hope based on long experience. He knew and interviewed Bob Hope while serving as an army seargeant during the Korean war and later as entertainment editor, and interviewer of top stars for over forty years. Quirk approaches his subject with original observations born of years of studying this most celebrated, yet in some ways most mysterious of entertainment giants.

SHAKESPEARE:A POPULAR LIFE

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature. Includes: The Blue Light and Other Stories, A Christmas Carol (Dickens), Stories of God, Rumi.

From the London ÊSunday TelegraphÊ: ÊActing ShakespeareÊ is extraordinary. The tone of the voice is unmistakably Sir John''s the atmosphere congenial. We''re in the company of our greatest actor who holds in his hands the last links of a chain of tradition leading to Shakespeare himself ... this book is crucial for anyone who believes that Shakespeare on the stage should be Shakespeare at his greatest ... Gielgud is by turns wise witty and wicked but unfailingly modest.

This book is an attempt to trace and illuminate, through interviews with colleagues, friends, and contemporaries, different perspectives about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

ÊTheatre and Drama in the MakingÊ introduces readers not only to important primary sources but to the uses made of them by distinguished theorists critics and historians. Unlike other texts it discusses theatre as a whole embracing both the art of dramatic writing and the art of performance. Included in this new edition are greatly expanded sections covering Latin Theatre and Drama and The Golden Age of Spain as well as all the exciting new archaeological information relating to the excavation of the Rose and the Globe. The introduction to each essay has been revised and enlarged so that together they may be read independently as a concise and accurate narrative of theatre history. From Aeschylus to Cald©ron from Agatharcus to Serlio from Thespis to Burbage from Aristotle to Sidney here is the story of Western Theatre in all its glorious variety.

QED is a seductive mix of science, human affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity... not to be missed."- John Simon, New York MagazineThe play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life." - Nancy Franklin, The New YorkerWith a moving and powerful introduction from Alan Alda.Who knew that quantum electrodynamics could make for a dramatic read? In the hands of the late, great physicist Richard Feynman, it does. Feynman''s theory of QED is just one of the many topics the playwright Peter Parnell explores in this nearly-one-man show, a recent Broadway triumph for star Alan Alda as Feynman.Set in Feynman''s office on the weekend of his realization that he has terminal cancer, this play is an intellectual tour-de-force that captures the unique, hilarious, and puckish genius that Feynman was. From his work on the Manhattan Project to the death of his beloved first wife, from his mission to reconstruct the Challenger space shuttle tragedy to his Nobel-prize winning physics ideas, the resume of Feynman''s life is fascinating. But Parnell gives us more, letting fill in the details of his life. When he reads a letter he wrote to his wife after her death, or flirts with a student, or chillingly recalls walking around Manhattan calculating the damage an atomic bomb could do, we, grow to love the man behind the scientist. And we read in fascination as he puzzles out the problem of his own death.Combining the current interest in science and math in the entertainment world with one of the most entertaining scientists in U.S. history, QED is a tour-de-force.

"There is no book about Hollywood as riveting as this documentary." - Allan Carr, Vanity Fair There is no question that the 1954 version of A STAR IS BORN holds a special place in the pantheon of classic movies. It was director George Cukor''s first foray into musicals, his first color film, and it was, without a doubt, Judy Garland''s greatest screen performance.With incredible detail and color, Ronald Haver gives us the fascinating story of the making, marketing and restoration of this groundbreaking classic. Here is how producer Sid Luft orchestrated the deal for his wife, how Cukor was selected to direct, how James Mason was cast to co-star and how Moss Hart''s script was developed. Here are the myriad techincal problems, the clashes of personalities and the shocking emotional ups and downs of the film''s star. Here, finally, is the author''s own mission to restore the film to its original length and glory in the 1980s.

INGRID: INGRID BERGMAN A PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY

Mix one American director with a German producer on a period extravaganza set the locations in Italy and Spain and start the cameras rolling without enough money to do the job. Then sit back and watch disaster strike. That is the scenario Andrew Yule has painstakingly reconstructed. The more problems and reverses the greater our interest: costly postponements overwhelming language difficulties elephants and tigers turning on their trainers illnesses sets not being ready special effects breaking down and cameo stars (from Marlon Brando to Sean Connery) backing out of the project. You name it Andrew Yule reports it!

ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN THE SCREENPLAY

JACOB'S LADDER

Pearl Cleage ΓÇó David Dozer, Rich Orloff ΓÇó Jacquelyn Reingold ΓÇó Murray Schisgal ΓÇó Nicky Silver ΓÇó Shel Silverstein ΓÇó Wendy Wasserstein ΓÇó donald Steele ΓÇó Billy Aronson.

SAVAGES SHAKESPEARE

The complete play scripts to: ÊThe MisanthropeÊ by Moliere English version by Richard Wilbur; ÊPhaedraÊ by Racine English version by Robert Lowell; ÊThe CidÊ by Corneille English version by James Schevill; and ÊFigaro''s MarriageÊ by Beaumarchais English version by Jacques Barzun.

Mel Gussow''s critically-acclaimed biography of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (ÊSeascapeÊ ÊA Delicate BalanceÊ ÊThe Zoo StoryÊ) who first electrified the American theatre scene in the 1960s with his groundbreaking ÊThe Zoo StoryÊ followed by the legendary ÊWho''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Ê

The script to the touching and funny play by Alan Zweibel about his relationship with famed comiedienne Gilda Radner.

This enduring biography of the popular writer begins with Ferber''s last years in New York City, exploring the setting in which she did all of her great writing. Diaries, copious correspondence, and the cooperation of distinguished living friends have resulted in a rich portrait of a period and a literary circle not yet fully documented, and an insightful engaging analysis of a woman writer highly influential in the shaping of twentieth century America.

Thomas Quinn Curtiss has reunited George Jean Nathan with his cohort, H.L. Mencken together with the rest of their set: Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Edmund Wilson, Sean O''Casey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Knopf, Jack London and Somerset Maugham. The magnificent abandon of their enterprise and the hard drinking Bohemian wisdom of their writing propelled them and fueled generations of readers with their wit and philosophy. This is a biography of an era of men whose stories could only be written by an eyewitness.

The major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Syinka and Havel. The best available collection of theoretical writing on the theatre from both the Eastern and Western traditions.

If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia.

Twenty-four leading voice experts speak out on the changing role of voice on stage. Essay topics include: Re-Discovering Lost Voices Û Thoughts on Theatre Therapy and the Art of Voice Û Finding Our Lost Singing Voices Û Voice Training Where Have We Come From? Û Vocal Coaching in Private Practice Û more.