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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The kaleidoscopic autobiography of director, actor, and artist André Gregory -- including stories from his birth in Nazi-Europe through his career in experimental theater and the creation of the cult classic film My Dinner with André"--
"This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Max Borges es un director de teatro barceloné́s que conduce una pequeña y excéntrica compañía. El día del estreno de Macbeth, la obra de Shakespeare, Max está al borde del colapso. Todo parece que va a salir mal en la función que debería ser su salto a la fama más sublime: las brujas son demasiado bellas, al rey Duncan se le ha roto la corona y su Macbeth huele sospechosamente a whisky escocés... Sin embargo, como suele recordarle su inteligente...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artist residency to work on a new Spanish translation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Upon her arrival, she quickly realizes that her work isn't compensating for the loss of her friends and the lover she left behind. When she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards from Danil̈e, Camila second-guesses her artistic endeavors and begins to...
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Famed Broadway producer Milo Short may be eighty-eight but that doesn't stop him from going to the office every day. So when he steps out of his Upper West Side brownstone on one exceptionally hot morning, he's not expecting to see the impossible: a woman from his life sixty years ago, cherry red lips, bright red hat, winking at him on a New York sidewalk, looking just as beautiful as she did back in 1934.The sight causes him to suffer a stroke. And...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An up-close and personal portrait of legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian Mike Nichols, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts-from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels"--
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Through the life of a remarkable woman -- based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921-1968) -- this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China's Communist Party. Sun Weishi was educated in Moscow and when she returned to China she produced the works of Chekov, Gogol, and other socially progressive dramas. However, when the cultural revolution began in 1966, she was persecuted, arrested, and eventually died in prison."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play. Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim...
14) Voodoo Macbeth
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convince a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Reimagined in a Haitian setting, this revolutionary 1936 production, which came to be known as "Voodoo Macbeth," would change the world forever. But the road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. Welles and...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Have you heard the one about the aspiring Broadway producer who bought a closed restaurant and changed the course of American comedy? It's no joke-his name is Budd Friedman, and his legendary club helped shape the stand-up comedy that is still a staple of entertainment today. From the microphone to the iconic brick wall, the Improv has been the launching pad of the nation's most talented comedians. By providing a stage for them to riff on everything...
18) All's well
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Man on the flying trapeze: Ambrose Wolfinger wants the afternoon off to go to a wrestling match. He tells his boss he needs to attend his mother-in-law's funeral. A series of mishaps lead his boss to send flowers to the house and notify papers of the death.
Never give a sucker an even break: W.C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film consists mainly of a series of flashbacks-- a number of disjointed, funny and bizarre scenes spoofing...
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