Download or read book Blithe Spirit written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war.' Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades thereafter. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him. "A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort" Professor Allardyce Nicoll
Download or read book America s Longest Run written by Andrew Davis and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America&’s Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre traces the history of America&’s oldest theater. The Philadelphia landmark has been at or near the center of theatrical activity since it opened, as a circus, on February 2, 1809. This book documents the players and productions that appeared at this venerable house and the challenges the Walnut has faced from economic crises, changing tastes, technological advances, and competition from new media. The Walnut&’s history is a classic American success story. Built in the early years of the nineteenth century, the Walnut responded to the ever-changing tastes and desires of the theatergoing public. Originally operated as a stock company, the Walnut has offered up every conceivable form of entertainment&—pageantry and spectacle, opera, melodrama, musical theater, and Shakespeare. It escaped the wrecking ball during the Depression by operating as a burlesque house, a combination film and vaudeville house, and a Yiddish theater, before becoming the Philadelphia headquarters for the Federal Theatre Project. Because Philadelphia is located so close to New York City, the Walnut has served as a tryout house for many Broadway-bound shows, including A Streetcar Named Desire, The Diary of Anne Frank, and A Raisin in the Sun. Today, the Walnut operates as a nonprofit performing arts center. It is one of the most successful producing theaters in the country, with more than 350,000 attending performances each year.
Download or read book A Life in the Theatre written by David Mamet and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of scenes we see two actors - a seasoned pofessional and a novice - backstage and onstage going through a cycle of roles and an entire wardrobe of costumes.
Download or read book Popcorn Falls written by James Hindman and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy when a neighboring town threatens to turn them into a sewage treatment plant. Their only hope – open a theater! Two actors play over twenty roles in a world of farce, love, and desperation, proving once and for all that art can save the world.
Download or read book Walnut Street Theatre written by Bernard Havard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walnut Street Theatre, located at the corner of Ninth and Walnut Streets, is Americas oldest theater, a national historic landmark, and the state theater of Pennsylvania. Since its opening in 1809, world-famous stars, such as Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Marlon Brando, have performed on its stage. Many of the greatest works in American theater premiered there, including A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and Neil Simons first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn. In 1982, under the direction of Bernard Havard, the Walnut became a not-for-profit producing theater company. Today, with over 56,000 subscribers annually, it is the most subscribed theater company in the world. Through vintage images from the theaters archives and the Free Library of Philadelphias Theatre Collection, Walnut Street Theatre rediscovers the Walnuts rich past.
Download or read book Private Lives written by Noel Coward and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een gescheiden echtpaar ontmoet elkaar weer na vijf jaar, terwijl zij beiden op huwelijksreis zijn met hun nieuwe partner.
Download or read book Flat Stanley and the Missing Pumpkins written by Jeff Brown and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Flat Stanley I Can Read adventure, Stanley visits his relatives at the farm and helps his uncle win big at the pumpkin contest! There are so many fun ways for Flat Stanley to help on his uncle’s farm in the fall. Being flat comes in handy when picking corn and even acting like a scarecrow! But when pumpkins begin to disappear right before the county fair, will Flat Stanley be able to help? Flat Stanley and the Missing Pumpkins is a is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.
Download or read book The Philadelphia Story written by Philip Barry and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1942 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four hours in the life of a Philadelphia belle, during which she discards an about-to-be second husband to remarry her first mate.
Download or read book America s Longest Run written by Andrew Davis and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces the history of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia from its founding in 1809. Documents the productions and players at the theater, and the difficulties it has faced from economic crises, changing tastes, and competition from new media"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Top secret Personal Beeswax written by Barbara Park and published by Random House Childrens Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious companion to the best-selling series features Junie's own original writings along with drawings, stickers, and lots of blank pages with creative prompts designed to get kids drawing and writing about their own top-secret, personal beeswax.
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes A Drama in Four Acts written by Doyle A.C. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. “Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts” is a four-act play by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, based on several stories about the world-famous detective.
Download or read book Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Download or read book Becoming Dr Ruth written by Mark St. Germain and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper, to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly-arrived in America, Mark St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman's untold story. BECOMING DR. RUTH is filled with the humor, honesty, and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became "Dr. Ruth," America’s most famous sex therapist.
Download or read book Dancing Lessons written by Mark St. Germain and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DANCING LESSONS centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger’s syndrome, who seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. The dancer, Senga, however, is recovering from an injury that may stop her dancing career permanently. As their relationship unfolds, they’re both caught off-guard by the discoveries—both hilarious and heartwarming—that they make about each other and about themselves.
Download or read book The Musical of Musicals written by Eric Rockwell and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2m, 2f / Musical / Unit Set The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form, from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. The basic plot: June is an ingenue who can't pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord. Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein
Download or read book Walnut Street Theatre Philadelphia September 20 1869 Change of Time First Night Of the Engagement of Mr Edwin Booth Who Will Appear for the First Time in Two Years as Hamlet Visitors at the Theatre are Requested to Remain Seated Till the Close of the Play as the Noise Occasioned by the Impatient Few Mars the Pleasure of the More Intellectual Portion of the Audience that Wish to Witness the Completion of the Performance Change of Time Monday Evening Sept r 20 1869 The Performance Will Commence at Quarter of 8 O clock with Overture Hamlet Kaliwoda After which Will be Presented Shakspere s Tragedy in Five Acts of Hamlet Hamlet Prince of Denmark Mr Edwin Booth written by Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays written by Adrienne Kennedy and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first new work in a decade, Adrienne Kennedy journeys into Georgia and New York City in the 1940s to lay bare the devastating effects of segregation and its aftermath. The story of a doomed interracial love affair unfolds through fragmented pieces--letters, recollections from family members, songs from the time--to present a multifaceted view of our cultural history that resists simple interpretation. This volume also includes Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side and Mom, How Did You Meet The Beatles?
