Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Almost, MaineAuthor: Cariani, JohnPublisher: Dramatist’s Play ServicePublication Date: 2007/05/30Number of Pages: 75Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: …
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Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries―romantic, scientific, literary―that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect …
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America’s funniest—and most acute—writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we’ve been living it these last forty years. Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here—from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the notorious piece on being flat-chested, …
“Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today… There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation.” –Charles Isherwood, New York Times”Baker has a soft spot for the abandoned, the discarded, the hard luck case… her heartbreaking works of staggering …
Folger Shakespeare Library The world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and …
This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder’s unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover’s Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a …
Shakespeare is famous for love sonnets and flowery prose, but he has also thrown down some of the most creative, witty, and scathing verbal abuses in literature.The Shakespearean Insults 2016 Calendar features some of the Bard’s most incendiary insults, disrespectful digs, and shrewd slights, resulting in an original, funny, and entertaining collection of quotes from his best-known plays. …
The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works held up a mirror to America and its shifting values. The Penguin Arthur …
“Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us.”—The New YorkerWritten with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him.City Hall …
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO’s classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show, present to you this collection of never-before-seen scripts and ideas that Hollywood couldn’t find the gumption to green-light. Simply put…HOLLYWOOD SAID NO!Since Mr. Show closed up shop, Bob and David have kept busy with many projects–acting in fun, successful, movies and TV shows, directing …