Author: Kirsten Greenidge
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583423653
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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As he makes his way home to Texas, former rebel soldier Johnny Yuma's first task is to find the mother and sister of his closest friend who died in battle. How could Johnny know he's walking into another battle? Based on the classic TV series written and produced by the author. Original.
Author: Lawrence Harbison
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1495025985
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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(Applause Acting Series). For this book, Lawrence Harbison has interviewed successful playwrights who have developed relationships with theaters that regularly produce their plays, have had at least one major New York production, have their plays published by a licensor such as Dramatists Play Service or Samuel French, have received commissions, and have an agent. Harbison asks each of them the same question: How did you do it? How I Did It features an introduction by Theresa Rebeck and interviews with David Auburn, Stephen Belber, Adam Bock, Bekah Brunstetter, Sheila Callaghan, John Carlani, Eric Coble, Jessica Dickey, Kate Fodor, Gina Gionfriddo, Daniel Goldfarb, Kirsten Greenidge, Rinne Groff, Lauren Gunderson, Michael Hollinger, Rajiv Joseph, Greg Kotis, Neil LaBute, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Wendy MacLeod, Itamar Moses, Bruce Norris, Lynn Nottage, Aaron Posner, Adam Rapp, J.T. Rogers, Lloyd Suh, Carl Thomas, Sharr White, and Anna Ziegler. A valuable tool for playwrights daunted by the extremely difficult task of getting their work produced, as well as to playwriting students, How I Did It is full of stories of how it's done.
Author: Kirsten Greenidge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781583423684
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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"Lena's days as a nanny seem numbered. Her new job is much more difficult than she'd hoped, and she struggles to keep her composure, and her secrets, while battling with the state-of-the-art washing machine that devours all of her young charge Greta's clothing; the long- suffering housekeeper, Carrmel, who is angling for Lena's position in the family; and the peculiar needs of Greta's parents. Carol, a high-powered attorney, and Greg, an architect, whose African-inspired designs are finding no takers in the corporate world to which his wife wishes he would cater, are beginning to show signs of wear as they strive to maintain the affluent lifestyle they have worked hard to achieve. And then there's Charlotte, Greta's teacher, whom Lena meets while retrieving Greta from one of her numerous after-school activities. Consumed with contempt for materialism and an admiration for the sans-culottes, militant revolutionaries associated with the French revolution, Charlotte promises to help Lena improve herself so she can quit nannying. Meanwhile, very little attention is being paid to Greta, who has picked up mixed and startling messages about being black and begins to retreat into an imagined utopia influenced by Disney's standards of female beauty. However, Charlotte's promises to Lena begin to falter as Carol's prejudices concerning class and ethnicity emerge and her demands on Lena spiral out of control. Sans-culottes in the Promised Land careens to a chilling end, where each member of this African-American household is forced to come to terms with the conditions in which each lives in the promised land of America."--Publisher's website.
Author: Anthony D. Hill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538117290
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 755
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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater’s history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country—identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.
Author: Joyce E. Henry
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837004
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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(Applause Acting Series). Three editors, each associated with theatre, collaborated on this book of monologues for actresses. What they discovered, besides bravura pieces for auditions, acting classes, and study, was the pulse of the millennial theatrical scene. A follow-up to the popular previous edition from the 1990s, One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century includes the work of over 70 playwrights, spotlighting the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental writings since 2000. A special introduction also explains how to choose, practice, and perform a speech for auditions. Comic or serious or both the monologues are written for young, old, and multicultural players by famous names and up-and-coming talent. Anna Deavere Smith records abuse in "real" relationships ( House Arrest ); August Wilson relates trials of those who survived coming to America and those who did not ( Gem of the Ocean ); and William Gibson recreates the dark, fledgling days of Israel ( Golda's Balcony ). Additional works include Are You Ready? by David Auburn, Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck, The Committee by Brian Dykstra, and many others.
Author: Anthony D. Hill
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870614
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient times to the present. It afforded black artists a cultural gold mine to celebrate what it was like to be an African American in The New World. The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.
Author: David J. Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A sympathetic but balanced account that lays bare both the paradoxes and the genuine achievements of the movement that changed the course of Jewish history. The origins and developments of Zionism, its politics and ideology are examined through the movement's leading thinkers and activistsMoses Hess, Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Author: Jeffrey Ullom
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809387085
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Far from the glittering lights of Broadway, in a city known more for its horse racing than its artistic endeavors, an annual festival in Louisville, Kentucky, has transformed the landscape of the American theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville—the Tony Award–winning state theater of Kentucky—in 1976 successfully created what became the nation's most respected new-play festival, the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville examines the success of the festival and theater’s Pulitzer Prize–winning productions that for decades have reflected new-play trends in regional theaters and on Broadway—the result of the calculated decisions, dogged determination, and good luck of its producing director, Jon Jory. The volume details how Actors Theatre of Louisville was established, why the Humana Festival became successful in a short time, and how the event’s success has been maintained by the Louisville venue that has drawn theater critics from around the world for more than thirty years. Author Jeffrey Ullom charts the theater’s early struggles to survive, the battles between troupe leaders, and the desperate measures to secure financial support from the Louisville community. He examines how Jory established and expanded the festival to garner extraordinary local support, attract international attention, and entice preeminent American playwrights to premier their works in the Kentucky city. In The Humana Festival, Ullom provides a broad view of new-play development within artistic, administrative, and financial contexts. He analyzes the relationship between Broadway and regional theaters, outlining how the Humana Festival has changed the process of new-play development and even Broadway’s approach to discovering new work, and also highlights the struggles facing regional theaters across the country as they strive to balance artistic ingenuity and economic viability. Offering a rare look at the annual event, The Humana Festival provides the first insider’s view of the extraordinary efforts that produced the nation’s most successful new-play festival.
Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385209579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author: Tanya Palmer
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Humana Festival of New American Plays is the center of the nation's playwriting universe (The Miami Herald). It is an event whose impact has enlivened and enriched stages in the United States and around the world (The Irish Times). This year's plays have been selected from more than 500 script submissions for production and these plays feature some of the most talented and adventurous playwrights writing for the American stage today. Includes After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo, The Ruby Sunrise by Rinne Groff, Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land by Kristen Greenridge, Kid-Simple, a radio play in the flesh by Jordan Harrison, At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka, and Tallgrass Gothic by Melanie Marnich.
