Download or read book The Chopin Playoffs written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The time is 1947, and Stanley Rosen and Irving Yanover, lifelong friends now approaching young manhood, find themselves pitted against each other on two fronts. Both are piano prodigies, and will be rivals in a forthcoming, and prestigio

Download or read book An Israel Horovitz Trilogy written by Israel Horovitz and published by . This book was released on with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Trilogies written by Israel Horovitz and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three plays in "The Growin-up-Jewish Trilogy" are based on Morley Torgov's book, "A Good Place to Come From." "The Alfred Trilogy" is three parts of the seven-part play cycle entitled, "The Wakefield Plays."

Download or read book The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy written by Robert J. Andreach and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This book analyzes recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women. There are five chapters beginning with Opposing Families (trilogies of, e.g., Lanford Wilson, Foote, Machado, and McCraney are examined). Carson, Rabe, and McLaughlin are among those in the Classical Reimaginings chapter while Coen, Berc, and Wolfe constitute the Medieval Reimaginings chapter. Van Itallie, Havis, Rapp, and Hwang, among others, create New Forms. LaBute, Fierstein, and Nelson, among others, create New Selves. The concluding chapter is devoted to Ruhl's Passion Play, which spans 400 years of theatre-creating from Elizabethan England to Hitler's Germany to the Reagan era in America.

Download or read book A Rosen by Any Other Name written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1987 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Preparing for his bar mitzvah, Stanley Rosen is disconcerted by his proud mother's promise to commission a chopped liver sculpture in his likeness, but even more concerned about his father's decision to change the family name from Rosen

Download or read book The Hotel Play written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The setting is a hotel in the tropics where a beleaguered desk clerk tries to placate, amuse and occasionally seduce the widely varied clientele who come and go during the course of the play's quick flowing action, each acting out a brie

Download or read book Dps written by and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oldtimers Game written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The place is the locker room of the Northshore (Minnesota) Otters, a Triple-A baseball club struggling through a lackluster season. It's the day of the annual Oldtimers Game, and several former Otters are on hand, including Old John La

Download or read book Shooting Gallery and Play for Germs written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1973 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: SHOOTING GALLERY. The scene is a carnival shooting gallery, where a young man has (for several months) been shooting at a mechanical bear, obstinately determined to win his wife a goldfish. He has spent all their money, his wife is e

Download or read book Another Season s Promise written by Anne Chislett and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: After a lifetime of working the rich Canadian farmland which he inherited from his father, Ken Purves, who expanded too quickly in the good years, now finds himself caught in a web of mounting debts and shrinking income. Several other lo

Download or read book Around the World in 21 Plays written by Lowell Swortzell and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of plays by such authors as Moliere, August Strindberg, Langston Hughes, Susan Zeder, Wendy Kesselman, and Laurence Yep.

Download or read book Year of the Duck written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: As the play begins, the members of a small-town community theatre are assembling to begin rehearsals of Ibsen's The Wild Duck . Harry Budd, a local photographer, is to play Hjalmar Ekdahl (also a photographer); his real life daught

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture written by Glenda Abramson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout. Experts from all over the world contribute entries ranging from 200 to 1000 words broadly, covering the humanities, arts, social sciences, sport and popular culture, and 5000-word essays contextualize the shorter entries, and provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world. Ideal for student and general readers, the articles and biographies have been written by scholars and academics, musicians, artists and writers, and the book now contains up-to-date bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, comprehensive cross referencing, and a full index. This is a resource, no student of Jewish history will want to go without.

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barefoot in the Park, Our Town, The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Odd Couple. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater presents the plays and personages, movements and institutions, and cultural developments of the American stage from 1930 to 2010, a period of vast and almost continuous change. It covers the ever-changing history of the American theater with emphasis on major movements, persons, plays, and events. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American theater.

Download or read book Lebensraum written by Israel Horovitz and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a cast of three to play forty sharply-drawn characters, this bold work of penetrating intelligence is based on the fanciful, explosive idea that a German Chancellor might, as an act of redemption, invite six million Jews to Germany and promise them citizenship and jobs.

Download or read book North Shore Fish written by Israel Horovitz and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in a fish packing plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the action of the play centers on the daily routine of the workers, mostly women, who have come to regard North Shore Fish as a way of life. But despite the ribald humor, juicy go

Download or read book Sweet Sue written by Albert Ramsdell Gurney and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action of the play is set in Susan's home in a New York suburb--Susan being a romantically-minded, divorced mother of three, and a very successful artist and designer of greeting cards. It is summer and Jake, the Dartmouth roommate of