Author: Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879103460
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Covers plays produced in New York, theater awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.
The Best Plays Theater Yearbook
Author: Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879103460
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Covers plays produced in New York, theater awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879103460
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Covers plays produced in New York, theater awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.
The Best Plays of 1993-1994
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879101831
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
"Featuring scenes from the ten best plays"--Jacket.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879101831
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
"Featuring scenes from the ten best plays"--Jacket.
Cora Witherspoon
Author: Axel Nissen
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476646619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress in Hollywood between 1931 and 1954. On stage she played roles like Sallie McBride in Daddy Long Legs, Josephine Trent in The Awful Truth, Martha Culver in The Constant Wife, Prudence in Camille, and Mrs. Grant in The Front Page. Like many Hollywood supporting players, her screen time was limited. She made the most of it, whether as W.C. Fields's shrewish wife in The Bank Dick, Bette Davis's fair weather friend Carrie in Dark Victory, the earthy, amorous maid Patty in Quality Street, or the overbearing dowager Mrs. Williamson in The Mating Season. On both stage and screen, Witherspoon portrayed a range of stereotypes of older women. In the end, though, she created her own type, incarnating the fashionable, frivolous, flighty, and fawning society woman, often with a thinly veiled libidinous quality. In addition to a detailed account of Witherspoon's theater and film career, this groundbreaking biography reveals her upbringing and family background and discusses her struggle with substance abuse, which resulted in two highly publicized arrests and one conviction.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476646619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Born into an upper-crust family in New Orleans, Cora Bell Witherspoon (1890-1957) was an orphan by the age of 10 and a professional actress by 15. She was seen on Broadway from 1910 till 1946 in 36 productions and was a popular character actress in Hollywood between 1931 and 1954. On stage she played roles like Sallie McBride in Daddy Long Legs, Josephine Trent in The Awful Truth, Martha Culver in The Constant Wife, Prudence in Camille, and Mrs. Grant in The Front Page. Like many Hollywood supporting players, her screen time was limited. She made the most of it, whether as W.C. Fields's shrewish wife in The Bank Dick, Bette Davis's fair weather friend Carrie in Dark Victory, the earthy, amorous maid Patty in Quality Street, or the overbearing dowager Mrs. Williamson in The Mating Season. On both stage and screen, Witherspoon portrayed a range of stereotypes of older women. In the end, though, she created her own type, incarnating the fashionable, frivolous, flighty, and fawning society woman, often with a thinly veiled libidinous quality. In addition to a detailed account of Witherspoon's theater and film career, this groundbreaking biography reveals her upbringing and family background and discusses her struggle with substance abuse, which resulted in two highly publicized arrests and one conviction.
The Best Plays of ...
Author:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Villainous Stage
Author: Marvin Lachman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618755
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618755
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Live theatre was once the main entertainment medium in the United States and the United Kingdom. The preeminent dramatists and actors of the day wrote and performed in numerous plays in which crime was a major plot element. This remains true today, especially with the longest-running shows such as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd. While hundreds of books have been published about crime fiction in film and on television, the topic of stage mysteries has been largely unexplored. Covering productions from the 18th century to the 2013-2014 theatre season, this is the first history of crime plays according to subject matter. More than 20 categories are identified, including whodunits, comic mysteries, courtroom dramas, musicals, crook plays, social issues, Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie. Nearly 900 plays are described, including the reactions of critics and audiences.
Burns Mantle Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America
Author: John Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: John Henry Ottemiller
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810877201
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.
Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer
Author: Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826342720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The work of one of the earliest Mexican American women writers who focused on life lived between two cultures and nations is the subject of this new literary study.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826342720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The work of one of the earliest Mexican American women writers who focused on life lived between two cultures and nations is the subject of this new literary study.
The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The Best Plays of 1989-1990
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557830906
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Gathers highlights from the season's ten best plays and information on plays produced in the United States
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557830906
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Gathers highlights from the season's ten best plays and information on plays produced in the United States