Download or read book Terrence McNally written by Terrence McNally and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dedication Or The Stuff of Dreams written by Terrence McNally and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four-time Tony Award-winning author Terrence McNally returns with a powerful new play about how far one will go for one's love of the theater. In a small upstate New York town, Lou, a speech and drama teacher, and Jessie, a dog groomer at The Dapper Dog, bring joy to their community through running an amateur theater company. They become obsessed with buying a derelict movie theater and turning it into Captain Lou and Miss Jessie's Magic Theater for Children of All Ages. The only obstacle in reaching their dream is Annabelle Willard -- a terminally ill and manipulative widow who owns half the town. Will these naive dreamers be able to grasp the brass ring, and at what cost?

Download or read book Corpus Christi written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The most controversial and talked about play of the 1998 theatrical season begins: We are going to tell you an old and familiar story. But from that point on, nothing feels quite familiar again. What follows is a story that parallels t

Download or read book It s Only a Play written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It's the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer (Julia Budder) is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs

Download or read book Three Plays by Terrence Mcnally written by Terrence McNally and published by Plume. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lisbon Traviata, is a powerfully moving tragicomedy about a crumbling homosexual marriage. And in Frankie and Johhnie in the Claire de Lune, a man and a woman, not young, not old, no great beauties, either one, come together in a fresh and witty display of emotional fireworks. McNally himself describes the final piece, the bitingly honest and uproariously funny It's Only a Play, as his attempt to describe what it was like to work in Broadway in the 1980s.

Download or read book A Perfect Ganesh written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two outwardly unremarkable, middle-aged lady friends throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each one having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book The Lisbon Traviata written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The first act is set in the fussily ornate apartment of Mendy, a ferociously dedicated opera buff who begs and cajoles his friend Stephen to let him borrow his copy of the pirated Maria Callas recording of La Traviata made during

Download or read book Lips Together Teeth Apart written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A gay community in Fire Island provides an unlikely setting for two straight couples who are discovered lounging poolside, staring out to sea. Sally, married to Sam, a New Jersey contractor, has inherited the house from her brother who died of

Download or read book The Magic Tower and Other One act Plays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume gathers some of Williams' most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas, including "The Pretty Trap," a cheerful take on "The Glass Menagerie," and "Interior: Panic," a stunning precursor to "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Download or read book Mothers and Sons written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At turns funny and powerful, MOTHERS AND SONS portrays a woman who pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has a young son. Challenged to face how society has changed around her, generations collide as she revisits the past and begins to see the life her son might have led.

Download or read book Bad Habits written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the first play, DUNELAWN, we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence in such

Download or read book Love Valour Compassion written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: At a beautiful Dutchess County farmhouse, eight men hash out their passions, resentments and fears over the course of three summer weekends. There's Perry and Arthur, a professional couple of long standing, whose relationship, while stra

Download or read book Terrence McNally written by Terrence McNally and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1994 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains fifteen short plays by playwright Terrence McNally.

Download or read book And Away We Go written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times change, but life in the theatre remains the same: chaotic, sometimes brutal, but often euphoric, too. AND AWAY WE GO jumps through time from backstage in ancient Athens to a rehearsal at the Globe, from Versailles’ Royal Theatre to the first reading of a new play by Chekhov—with an unlikely stop in Coral Gables and the American premiere of Waiting for Godot along the way.

Download or read book Golden Age written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's opening night of Vincenzo Bellini's new opera I Puritani in Paris, and the Italian composer is determined to win the adulation of not only his audience, but his colleagues and rivals as well. When the curtain falls, will a thunderous ovation cement his prominence? Or has Bellini unwittingly composed his own swan song? Blending 21st-century language with the timeless beauty of 19th-century bel canto opera, GOLDEN AGE portrays the final act of an artist whose desire for greatness has eclipsed all else.

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Download or read book Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Constructed as a series of vignettes, skits and brief incidents, the play portrays the life and attitude of one Tommy Flowers--irrepressible cut-up, determined freeloader and disenchanted rebel against society. In the course of his advent