Download or read book Jimmy Shine written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1969 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As described by The New York Post : The play is about a starving young painter living in a Greenwich Village loft...He is immediately established as mildly freaky: beer chilling on top of an ice cube, a mat of hair pasted on his che

Download or read book The Pushcart Peddlers written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: In the first play, THE PUSHCART PEDDLERS, the greenhorn, Shimmel, fresh from the old country, meets the older, wiser Cornelius and is inveigled into buying his pushcart business. Complications arise when Cornelius returns with another

Download or read book Twice Around the Park written by Murray Schisgal and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson starred on Broadway in these hysterically funny one acts. A Need for Brussel Sprouts finds a middle aged actor hoping to land a TV commercial for pizza by playing opera full blast in his apartment while pretending to be the tenor. Enter the irate lady cop who lives upstairs and intends to give him a summons for disturbing the peace. They are both lonely and one thing leads to another. In A Need for Less Expertise, a couple whose marriage is on the rocks after 26 years have procured a self help audio tape designed to improve their spiritual awareness, their health and their sex life as a last ditch effort to save their marriage.

Download or read book Dustin Hoffman written by Jeff Lenburg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, Dustin Hoffman is a rare acting genius and Hollywood legend. From innocent Benjamin Braddock to autistic savant Raymond Babbit, his stellar movie performances have won him numerous awards, ecstatic popular acclaim and worldwide fame. Well-known celebrity biographer Jeff Lenburg tells the inside-story of this award-winning actor in this fully revised, revealing biography. With great attention to detail, the author examines the man and his work Hoffman's coming of age, his brilliant career, his bravura acting style, his classic films and behind-the-scene stories- as well as the marriages and personal life of this demanding and difficult actor.

Download or read book An American Millionaire written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The hero is the millionaire co-owner of a textile plant who seems to have all that one could wish for--but who finds himself thoroughly miserable. As things have gone from bad to worse his wife (whom he loves) has left him; he is overweig

Download or read book Luv written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1966-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As described by the New York Times: When the play begins there is Harry Berlin, looking like a shaved, mustachioed beatnik who has sunk so low that honest beatniks would disown him. He has no future except to jump off the bridge and is about t

Download or read book The Actor s Scenebook written by Michael Schulman, Ph.D. and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1984-05-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene study, selected from the best plays from recent theater seasons. More than 20 monologues for both men and women, carefully chosen to display the widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for auditioning actors. A large selection of parts for woman provide exciting opportunities to sharpen acting skills in roles that brought accolades from New York's toughest critics. More than 80 scenes in all, many previously unpublished, allow every actor, professional, amateur or student, to choose from either smart, sassy, often outrageous comedy or deeply moving drama—a unique, balanced collection of the most successful contemporary plays.

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Download or read book Broadway Plays and Musicals written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the American theater, this is the first single-volume book to cover all of the activities on Broadway between 1919 and 2007. More than 14,000 productions are briefly described, including hundreds of plays, musicals, revivals, and specialty programs. Entries include famous and forgotten works, designed to give a complete picture of Broadway's history and development, its evolution since the early twentieth century, and its rise to unparalleled prominence in the world of American theater. The productions are identified in terms of plot, cast, personnel, critical reaction, and significance in the history of New York theater and culture. In addition to a chronological list of all Broadway productions between 1919 and 2007, the book also includes approximately 600 important productions performed on Broadway before 1919.

Download or read book Play Time written by Murray Schisgal and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In a neo-naturalistic, comedic style, integrating original songs, verbal banter, dances and vaudeville turns, PLAY TIME explores the lives of five contemporary characters in an age of waning convictions. The story told is that of a stock

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-11-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book The Lee Strasberg Notes written by Lola Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before published transcripts from Lee Strasberg's teachings at his school in New York City in the last ten years of his life.

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-01-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Download or read book At this Theatre written by Louis Botto and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains the informal history of forty theatres that were built, as either legitimate houses or movie palaces and that are currently operating as legitimate theatres"--p. xiii.