Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Drama & Theater Books

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	'night, Mother A Play Marsha Norman Hill and Wang 'night, Mother is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	'Tis pity she's a whore New Mermaids John Ford Martin Wiggins Methuen Drama Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earthnurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet,she finds all of...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	4.48 Psychosis Modern Plays Sarah Kane Methuen Drama "As compact and beautiful as a diamond in structure—and yet the mood it inspires is as black as coal."—Time Out

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Accidental Death of an Anarchist Modern Classics Dario Fo Simon Nye Methuen Drama In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been...

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Accidental Death of an Anarchist Student Editions Dario Fo Joseph Farrell Methuen Drama Fo’s subversive drama is based on a true-life story: a prisoner falls from a window at police headquarters which triggers a chain of events exposing the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy.

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Actors at Work

Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan; Foreword by Mike Nichols Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Because of their provocative, empathetic, and insightful interview techniques, co-authors Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan manage to reveal both the working methods as well as the deeply personal perspectives of fourteen of America’s most gifted actors. In the book's depth of purpose as well as in its sheer entertainment value as a great reading experience, Actors at Work sets a standard that subsequent actor-interview books will be hard-pressed to match."—Ron Van Lieu, Lloyd Richards Chair of Acting, Yale School of Drama

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	After Miss Julie Modern Plays Patrick Marber Methuen Drama A new version of a world classic by one of Britain's best-known contemporary playwrights. After Miss Julie relocates August Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) to...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3 Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land, Private Fears in Public Places Alan Ayckbourn; With an Introduction by the Author Faber and Faber, Inc. In this third volume of his collected plays, Alan Ayckbourn takes his signature acerbic wit into the territory of the lonely and isolated, focusing on everyone...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Alcestis A Play Euripedes; Translated and Adapted by Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Alchemist New Mermaids Ben Jonson Elizabeth Cook Methuen Drama Set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610—and first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins A Play Nick Flynn; With an afterword by the author Faber and Faber, Inc. "Flynn's talents are considerable—he has a compelling voice and a wry sense of humor."—Vendela Vida, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	All for Love New Mermaids John Dryden; Edited by N.J. Andrew Methuen Drama All for Love or, The World Well Lost is John Dryden's 1677 adaptation of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra into a neo-classical quintet with supporting...

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All That Glittered

The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959

Ethan Mordden St. Martin's Press

From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Amy's View A Play David Hare Faber and Faber, Inc. 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The visit of her young...

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And Furthermore

Judi Dench St. Martin's Press

I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that has brought...

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Anouilh Plays: 1 Antigone, Leocardia, The Waltz of the Toreasors, The Lark, Poor Bitos World Classics Jean Anouilh Methuen Drama A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights. Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Antigone Student Editions Jean Anouilh Ted Freeman Methuen Drama Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative...

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Arcadia

A Play

Tom Stoppard Faber and Faber, Inc.

Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life—according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out."

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Arden of Faversham New Mermaids Edited by Martin White and Tom Lockwood Methuen Drama This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its titlepage, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadaysscandalises and thrills the...

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle; Translated by S. H. Butcher; Introduction by Francis Fergusson Hill and Wang Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Art A Play Yasmina Reza; Translated by Christopher Hampton Faber and Faber, Inc. The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painting) as well as the meaning of friendship, to both the man...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Asking Around Background to the David Hare Trilogy David Hare Faber and Faber, Inc. The candid interviews that formed the basis for David Hare's famed trilogy of plays about the state of Britain in the early 1990s. Asking Around is a...

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At Play

Teaching Teenagers Theater

Elizabeth Swados Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Liz Swados has changed the lives of countless young people, and has changed the way all of us in the field think about making theater. Liz makes theater that matters; her fierce optimism that the world can be changed, by kids and by art, infuses this book as it does all her work. We are lucky to have her among us." —Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Audition Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part Michael Shurtleff; Introduction by Bob Fosse Walker & Company The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream!...