Download or read book The Best Plays of 2002 2003 written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume includes essays on the selected plays, but not the text of the play.
Download or read book The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2003 2004 written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of essays, facts and figures for Broadway and off- Broadway productions and synopses of the ten best plays of the year.
Download or read book The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2007 2008 written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here in this 86th edition of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook are all of the many features that have long distinguished this indispensable reference work on the American theater. What makes the series unique is its unequaled depth and breadth of information on the season under review and its record of the key achievements in theater over a multitude of earlier seasons: detailed listings of all plays produced on and Off Broadway, and hundreds Off Off Broadway, between June 2004 and May 2005; essays by distinguished theater critics and commentators on all 10 of the chosen plays; listings of the longest-running plays and of the winners of the notable theater awards, in many cases ever since those awards were established; and the full membership of the Theater Hall of Fame." "But the scope of this book extends far beyond New York, recognizing as it does the vitality and the innovative contributions of resident theaters throughout the country. The invaluable survey of the season around the United States includes the American Theatre Critics Association's Steinberg New Play Award and Citations, plus a directory of more than 300 new play productions and readings at resident theaters everywhere." "As always this compendious book is illustrated with scores of photographs of productions in New York and around the United States." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Best Plays of 2001 2002 written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers plays produced in New York, awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.
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Download or read book The Best Plays Theater Yearbook written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by Limelight Editions. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual chronicle of United States theater continues its long tradition of preserving the history of theater in the United States. For this 87th edition, essays by noted theater critics and writers celebrate the season and the ten best plays of 2005-2006. In addition to providing a variety of historical perspectives for the study and enjoyment of theater lovers, Best Plays includes a compendium of facts and figures about the year in United States theater, all illustrated with 100 black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays Volume Two written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). This second volume of the best monologues from the Best American Short Plays series features a diverse selection drawn from the outstanding works from many of today's best American playwrights. In these monologues, the playwrights capture much of the flavors, feelings, and thoughts of American culture over the past several decades. The result is a collection of taught, engaging monologues offering fascinating perspectives. They are written with an eye toward the stage that makes them excellent source material for actors young and old alike. And they offer a freshness and directness that make them excellent companions for readers attracted to good, often quirky, and always engaging contemporary literature.
Download or read book Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays Volume One written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays, Volume One is a must for actors of all ages beginners as well as seasoned veterans and belongs in the libraries of all theater teachers looking for new and exciting material for their students. The monologues in this volume are excerpted from the outstanding series Best American Short Plays, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today, presenting taut, engaging single-character pieces that range from zany comedy to poignant tales of love and loss. Each monologue includes a short introduction and a reference identifying where to locate the entire play, should anyone choose to pursue production beyond the monologue. Long or short, serious or not, this collection is must-have material for anyone interested in acting. The monologues also succeed as excellent companions for the casual reader.
Download or read book Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays Volume Three written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Really? Words can break spirits, destroy confidence. They can also build hope and incite great acts of heroism. Playwrights know this, and so do theater audiences. Otherwise, why go? Words matter and carry clout every bit as dangerous as a hammer or crowbar. This, too, playwrights know. The monologues in this volume are full of such blows, striking at our imaginations and our memories, generating responses such as joyful laughter or chilling surprise. Others squeeze us into worlds we've never experienced, or perhaps experienced at the furthest edges of memory and recollection. Still others may help us alter the way we see certain things, people, or beliefs. Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Plays series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today. Long or short, serious or not, excerpts or entireties, this collection abounds in speech acts that may trigger physical reactions and almost certainly will transform an attitude or two, drawing out lost memories, creating new ones, and definitely entertaining, engaging, amusing us all along the way.
Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2002 2003 written by Glenn Young and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). Applause is happy to bring you The Best American Short Plays 2002-2003 . Editor Glenn Young has selected the following 10 plays: The Beauty Inside , by Catherine Filloux; Brown , by Cherie Vogelstein; and everybody else , by Scott Organ; Queenie , by Murray Schisgal; Reunions , by Billy Aronson; Captain Abalone , by Adam Kraar; The Changing of the Guard , by Amy Staats; Hermaphrodite , by Annie G.; Sada , by Bruce Levy; and 5:15 Greyhound , by Le Wilhelm.
Download or read book The Best Plays of 2003 2004 written by Jeffrey Eric Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Playwrights written by D. L. Lepidus and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth annual collection of new plays, ?a rich and varied collection of contemporary American playwriting talent.'Almost, Maine, by John CarianiA collection of ten-minute plays about the denizens of a small, very small, rural Maine town.War in Paramus, by Barbara DanaThe story of an American family during the Vietnam era.Bulrusher, by Eisa DavisA poignant, often poetic play about a mixed-raced orphan girl living in a small town in California.Indoor/Outdoor, by Kenny FinkleA comedy about a cute young female, Samantha (a cat), and her trials and tribulations with the man she lives with.Cowboy Versus Samurai by Michael GolamcoA comedy revolving around issues of identity for the only three Asian-Americans in a small town in Wyoming.In the Continuum, by Danai Gurira and Nikkole SalterA disparate group of American and African black women deal with the tragedy of AIDS.Six Years, by Sharr WhiteA drama about one marriage as it develops over many years, starting just after the end of WW II and ending during the Vietnam era.D.L. Lepidus is a freelance critic and editor who has covered the New York theater scene for more than thirty years.
Download or read book New Playwrights written by Lawrence Harbison and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest in Smith and Kraus' highly-acclaimed series, this comprehensive anthology is a rich and varied collection of the work of some of America's most promising new playwrights. Contains:BFF by Anna Ziegler. An Off Broadway success about two teenaged girls. One has a tragic end, the other keeps her memory alive by becoming her.DARK PLAY OR STORIES FOR BOYS by Carlos Murillo. A smash at Louisville's Humana Festival, this provocative play focuses on a teenaged computer whiz who invents an alter ego in order to lure another boy into his fantasy world.INTELLECTUALS by Scott Sickles. This hilarious comedy is about a psychologist who decides to take a ?sabbatical? from her marriage to pursue her untapped potential as a lesbian.LIVING ROOM IN AFRICA by Bathsheba Doran. This intense drama is about a couple who have moved to a small village in Africa to set up a museum there with money donated from the west, only to learn that they are living in an area devasted by AIDS.NO CHILD by Nilaja Sun. This acclaimed long-running Off Broadway hit subsequently toured all over the U.S. and abroad. In it, Ms. Sun played a beleaguered substitute teacher in the inner city high school from hell, hired to work with this problem school's most incorrigible students to present a play. She played all the roles, from herself to students to parents to other teachers to the principal to a veteran, much-beloved janitor in this insightful look at life in a hellish high school.THE PAIN AND THE ITCH by Bruce Norris. This terrific dark comedy achieved Off Broadway acclaim and went on the London, where it was equally sensationally received. It's a hilarious social satire about liberal hypocrisy, focusing on an American family who want it all: moral superiority and a wide-screen TV.VICTORIA MARTIN: MATH TEAM QUEEN by Kathryn Walat. Victoria wants to be Most Popular, but she also wants to be known for her brains. She becomes the first girl ever on her high school's math team - which scrambles the team's all-male dynamic.For over thirty years Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisition for Samuel French, Inc., during which time he was responsible for the first publication of such luminaries as Jane Martin, Don Nigro, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, Jose Rivera, William Mastrosimone, Charles Fuller and Ken Ludwig, among many others; and the acquisition of musicals such as SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES, A?MY NAME IS ALICE and THREE GUYS NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. He has for many years written a weekly column on his adventures in the theatre for two Manhattan Newspapers, the Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider. He is a member of the NYC press corps and is an Outer Critics Circle Member. He has served many times over the years as a judge and commentator for various national play contests and lectures regularly at colleges and universities.
Download or read book Racing in the Street written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen, featuring the most insightful, revealing, famous, and infamous articles, interviews, reviews, and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City, Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories, George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour, and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take, plus much, much more.
Download or read book Performing Gender Violence written by B. Ozieblo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society.
Download or read book The Sound of Broadway Music written by Steven Suskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit. Steven Suskin has meticulously tracked down thousands of original orchestral scores, piecing together enigmatic notes and notations with long-forgotten documents and current interviews with dozens of composers, producers, conductors and arrangers. The information is separated into three main parts: a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; a lively discussion of the art of orchestration, written for musical theatre enthusiasts (including those who do not read music); a biographical section which gives a sense of the life and world of twelve major theatre orchestrators, as well as incorporating briefer sections on another thirty arrangers and conductors; and an impressive show-by-show listing of more than seven hundred musicals, in many cases including a song-by-song listing of precisely who orchestrated what along with relevant comments from people involved with the productions. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, many of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and often surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre.
Download or read book Roger Ebert s Movie Yearbook 2005 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing reviews written from January 2002 to mid-June 2004, including the films "Seabiscuit, The Passion of the Christ," and "Finding Nemo," the best (and the worst) films of this period undergo Ebert's trademark scrutiny. It also contains the year's interviews and essays, as well as highlights from Ebert's film festival coverage from Cannes.
