Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Dear Evan Hansen 

William Shakespeare

John Russell Brown

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

The new revised edition of Henry V, Shakespeare's sweeping historical pageant, includes these features: a general discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater, sources from which Shakespeare derived Henry V, and new essays.

Henry V

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Lorraine Hansberry

Tight, square book with no spine creasing, no writing or marks, clean and smoke free, price sticker on back cover

Virginia

An African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions, in the award-winning 1959 play about an embattled Chicago family

A Raisin in the Sun

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Caryl Churchill

New York

The Chicago Tribune calls this chilling new play "a masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today."

Far Away

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Lehman Engel

1975 Crown Publishers. Lyrics from some of the greatest theatre lyric/musical writers curated by Engel. The book is in great shape with minor jacket wear (protected by a plastic jacket cover). Minor staining on the outside of the textblock. No annotations. Binding is tight. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Mexico

The Great Theatre Lyricists and Their Lyrics

Their Words Are Music

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Harold Pinter

Texas

In The Birthday Party, a musician escapes to a dilapidated boarding house, where he falls victim to the shadowy, ritualized violence of two men who have followed him from his sinister past. In The Room, a derelict boarding house again becomes the scene of a visitation from the past when a blind man suddenly arrives to deliver a mysterious message. Both plays are invested with the elements that make Pinter's work unique: the disturbing familiarity of the dialogue, the subtle characterization, and the abrupt mood and power shifts among the characters, which can be by turns terrifying, moving, and wildly funny.

The Birthday Party and the Room

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Susan Bassnett

Hardcover in dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Slight foxing on top page edge. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

Indiana

International Women's Experimental Theatre

Magdalena Experiment

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Marc Acito

Wisconsin

A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater

The story centers on Edward Zanni, a 17-year-old high school senior living in New Jersey in the early 1980s, whose ambition to ascend to the Juilliard School in New York City to study acting is quashed when his father refuses to pay his tuition fees.

How I Paid for College

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Tim Donohue

Jim Patterson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

A Realistic Guide

Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facets certain to enlighten students contemplating a theater career, as well as inform counselors, teachers, and parents of available opportunities and the demands of each path. Theater Careers offers valuable details not readily available elsewhere, including - Dozens of informative job descriptions surveying the impressive variety of theater careers, both on and off the stage - Statistics on the working and earning prospects of various careers as drawn from the best sources in the business - Thoughtful assessments of the value of education and training choices, including the most meaningful way to look at the costs of college--estimating net costs, which is seldom described elsewhere--and how to choose a school Straightforward and objective, Theater Careers is an ideal reference for those seeking careers in the theater. Armed with this information, readers will be better equipped to pursue choices that best lead to satisfying and secure employment in the rewarding field of the dramatic arts.

Theater Careers

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Caseen Gaines

Michigan

The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

"A major contribution to the culture."--Brian Jay Jones, New York Timesbestselling author of Jim Henson: The Biography The triumphant story of the all-Black Broadway musical that changed the world forever Opening night was going better than any of them could have expected, but the performers knew the rapturous applause was obscuring the truth: there was a good chance someone was going to get killed at any moment, and it was likely to be one of them. When the curtain rose on Shuffle Along in 1921, the first all-Black musical to succeed on Broadway, no one was sure if America was ready for a show featuring nuanced, thoughtful portrayals of Black characters--and the potential fallout was terrifying. But from the first jazzy, syncopated beats of composers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's inspired musical numbers, New York audiences fell head over heels for Shuffle Along, which was unlike anything they had seen before. Footnotes is the story of how Sissle and Blake, along with comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, overcame poverty, racism, and violence to harness the energy of the Harlem Renaissance and produce a runaway Broadway hit that launched the careers of many of the twentieth century's most beloved Black performers. Born in the shadow of slavery and establishing their careers at a time of increasing demands for racial justice and representation for people of color, Sissle, Blake, Miller, and Lyles broke down innumerable barriers between Black and white communities at a crucial point in our history. Author and pop culture expert Caseen Gaines leads readers through the glitz and glamour of New York City during the Roaring Twenties to reveal the revolutionary impact one show had on generations of Americans, and how its legacy continues to resonate today. Before Hamilton, before The Wiz, and even before Porgy and Bess, there was Shuffle Along, an unforgettable theatrical achievement that paved the way for innumerable Black actors, dancers, musicians, and composers and left an indelible mark on our popular culture and our lives. "Shuffle Along was the first of its kind when the piece arrived on Broadway. This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of our brilliant ancestors, are charged with the very often elusive task of carrying that torch into our present. I am humbled to have been part of the short-lived 2016 historical telling of how far we've come, starring as Aubrey Lyles in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed--and happy that Footnotesfurther secures his place in history."--Billy Porter, Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning actor

Footnotes

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California

Sam Shepard's outlandish, nightmarish, yet lyrical plays--The Tooth of Crime, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, and dozens of others--have garnered him a Pulitzer Prize and a lasting reputation as one of America's greatest living playwrights. His charismatic performances in movies like Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, Country, and Thunderheart--as well as his screenplay for Paris, Texas--have made him an indelible presence in American film. Rock 'n' roller, rancher, and rodeo prizewinner, he has toured with Bob Dylan, hung out with the Rolling Stones, collaborated with Patti Smith, and raised a family with Jessica Lange. Yet throughout he has remained an enigmatic figure. In this acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Don Shewey explores the life and works of this American visionary, illuminating Shepard's unique success in straddling the divide between serious artist and pop-culture hero.

Sam Shepard

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Jerome Lawrence

Robert E. Lee

A reissue of a now classic American drama.

If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." So wrote the young Henry David Thoreau in 1849. Three years earlier, Thoreau had put his belief into action and refused to pay taxes because of the United States government's involvement in the Mexican War, which Thoreau firmly believed was unjust. For his daring and unprecedented act of protest, he was thrown in jail. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a celebrated dramatic presentation of this famous act of civil disobedience and its consequences. Its poignant, lively, and accessible scenes offer a compelling exploration of Thoreau's philosophy and life

A Play

The American naturalist's life and philosophy are revealed in a dramatic work which focuses on his symbolic act of civil disobedience in 1846.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

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Emma Whipday

Terri Bourus

Emma Smith

Minnesota

The New Oxford Shakespeare

A new edition of one of Shakespeare's most complex and enigmatic plays.

Measure for Measure

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Edward Behr

The binding on the book is loose. Lots of wear on the cover on the corners. Pages are pristine 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Here is a lavishly illustrated book detailing the long history of Les Miserables, from the time Victor Hugo began writing it in 1836 to its present-day worldwide theatrical success. Full-color photos.

The Complete Book of "Les Miserables"

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maryland

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Egmont - a Tragedy

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Camryn Garrett

Pennsylvania

Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.

Full Disclosure

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David Magarshack

Published 1952, Library Binding - Ex-library copy with typical interior markings and blemishes; several pages of text have underlined or highlighted passages. 

New Jersey

Chekhov the Dramatist

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Published 1938, Library Binding; Ex-library copy with the usual interior markings and stamps. 8th Printing.

The Complete Greek Drama Volume II

Reginald Rose

David Mamet

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst. After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Twelve Angry Men

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Tennessee Williams

THE STORY: Serafina delle Rose is a restless widow whose intense and absorbing instinct for love drives everything before it. The figure of this extraordinary woman dominates the small town where she and her friends are living and embodies the exul

The Rose Tattoo

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Paul Fleischman

A Play. Revised Edition

Cue the lights for a nonstop farce that juxtaposes seven different plays--performed simultaneously--with a comic genius reminiscent of masters from Monty Python to the Marx Brothers. Combing spot-on parodies of Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Neil Simon, and performance art, and throwing in scenes from "Richard III " for good measure, "Zap" mixes genres and story lines with the same speed that we flick through channels and navigate browser windows. In the ten years since "Zap" was first published, Paul Fleischman has spoken to many of the producers, actors, and directors who have brought his hilarious and insightful play to life. With their feedback in mind, he presents this fine-tuned, newly revised edition of a play that comically explores the collision of narratives that occurs on our screens every day and rings true now more than ever.

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Seth Barrish

Anne Hathaway

Tools for the Working Actor

An acting guide by award-winning director Seth Barrish.

An Actor's Companion

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Purchased from a used book store- Dust jacket has some stickers removed as shown but the cover and pages are in great condition! 

Dear Evan Hansen

T. S. Eliot

A play in verse form dramatizes the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket by four knights of Henry II's court

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Full Disclosure

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