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Series
Language
English
Description
Bryson offers a portrait of the Bard, presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace, and academics. The account also shares the author's recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner. Harvey Fierstein's stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting-Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day-and writing: La Cage Aux Folle, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this atmospheric, intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension, an unexpected inheritance plunges beloved British mystery author Josephine Tey into a disturbing puzzle of dark secrets eerily connecting the present and the past"--
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Language
English
Description
"She came for a job. What she'll get is the performance of a lifetime. Aspiring playwright Winnie D'Angelo has spent the past seven years waiting in the wings, working as a personal assistant to celebrated, feminist playwright, Juliette Brassard. But when an experimental theatre company in London, England decides to stage Juliette's most renowned play, accompanying her mentor across the pond could finally be Winnie's moment in the spotlight -- assuming...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a 'rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work.' Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry's other contributions, including the writer's innovative journalism and lesser known...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award. Charles J. Shields's authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century's most admired...
11) Code 6: a novel
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Language
English
Description
Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...
14) The dog says how
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kling blends together accounts of childhood mishaps, irrational adult behavior, and overcoming obstacles in this collection of autobiographical stories.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art."--
Author
Publisher
Travelers' Tales, An imprint of Solas House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Janna Goodwin takes a hilarious and reflective look at the emotional experiences that make everyday life exciting--and the physical ones that remind us we are lucky to be alive. Encountering a range of life events across the American West, in Hollywood, in the Catskills, Boston, on the Mediterranean, and Paris, Goodwin looks for and finds meaning, if not security, in a clear-eyed acknowledgment of the human condition--and in the saving grace of laughter.--From...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief profile of the life and works of sixteenth-century playwright, William Shakespeare; contains black-and-white illustrations that include a diagram of the Globe Theater.
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