Theatre & Performing Arts Books

AUTOMATIC VAUDEVILLE: Essays on Star Turns
by John Lahr. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Limelight Trade Paperback, no printing given. Includes a new essay on The Rolling Stones. Content: "A briliant original analysis of being an artist in America. Lahr illuminates his subjects with such wit and perception that he raises the art of critical writing to the level of adventure." Essays on: Stephen Sondheim, Noel Coward, Sam Shepard, Leiber & Stoller, Dame Edna Everage, Eugene O'Neill, Woody Allen, The Beatles, Joe Orton, Hog Heaven: Scenes From Dallas, Studs Terkel, Walt Whitman, Hunter Thompson, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, The Rolling Stones, and Notes on Fame. [1 copy available]
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BROADWAY MUSICALS SHOW BY SHOW (Fifth Edition)
by Stanley Green. Revised & Updated by Kay Green. B&W play stills illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1996 Hal Leonard large Trade Paperback, 5th edtion, revised & updated. Content: Musical-comedy specialist Green has produced another winner in this survey of hit Broadway musicals from 1866's The Black Crook to 1985's Big River. The volume includes basic facts about more than 300 important shows, a brief synopsis of each, credits, and gossipy facts (such as tryout replacements) so dear to the hearts of Broadway fans. Accompanying photographs are excellent, as are the several indexes. Either for serious research or just browsing, Green's book should appeal to anyone interested in musical theater.Stops at the 1996 Nathan Lane version of "Forum." [1 copy available]
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CALIFORNIA GOLD-RUSH PLAYS
edited by Glenn Loney. Condition: Gently pre-read 1983 Performing Arts Journal hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket0, no printing given. Name marked out top end page covered by blank bookplate. Content: The book, edited by Glenn Loney, contains 3 plays: A Live Woman in the Mines (Alonzo Delano); Two Men of Sandy Bar (Bret Harte); and Joaquin Murieta De Castillo (Charles E.B. Howe). [1 copy available]
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (The Play)
by Tennessee Williams. Condition: UNREAD c. 1990 Signet paperback, 42nd printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: "Cat" takes place on a Southern plantation, and deals with a wealthy, but very dysfunctional family. Williams creates stunning dialogue for his characters: Brick, the bitter, alcoholic ex-athlete; Brick's frustrated wife Margaret; "Big Daddy," the patriarch, who is dying of cancer; and the rest. Williams also establishes the plantation's original owners as a haunting presence through the lines of his characters. "Cat" is an explosive family drama about greed, secrets, guilt, alcoholism, and sexual frustration. Williams' characters are larger-than-life, and even grotesque, but Williams never loses a grasp on their essential humanity. An important book for those with a serious interest in American drama. This issue also contains a note by Tennessee Williams on changing the third act and it contains both the original and the Broadway version of this third act. The original Broadway cast included Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes (Miss Ellie), and Ben Gazzara. The movie edition starred Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, and Paul Newman. [1 copy available]
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A DELICATE BALANCE (The Play - Pulitzer Prize)
by Edward Albee. Content: UNREAD, but sure not perfect, 1968 Pocket paperback, third printing. Light edge wear with tanning to front cover edges and moerate tanning to page edges. Very readable. Content: Reviewer: "Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play--winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. A dark comedy about unfulfilled lives, broken promises, and family jealousies. A tragedy at times hilarious, the stylized piece is an examination of friendship contrasted with family, in which the playwright creates six delicous characters--roles actors especially love and often perform brilliantly. Katherine Hepburn's filmed version comes to mind--a near perfect expression of the matriarch Agnes, who has several problems: her alcoholic sister is drinking in the living room, her daughter is coming home after a failed 4th marriage, and her friends Edna and Harry have decided to move in because they are "afraid" of something. Agnes's husband Tobias is polite, detached, and reasonable. Against bristling tension, the author uses drunken Claire as comic counterpoint to brilliant effect, giving her an accordion (of all things) as prop with which to accent and poke fun. (There's a wonderful sight gag near the end where this character, who isn't supposed to have one drink, is discovered holding two.) We also smile when mousy Edna tries to re-decorate Agnes's home and speaks to the divorcing Julia as if she were her own daughter. (How easily shyness moves to assertiveness, then imperceptibly to cruelty.) So we laugh to keep from crying--but laugh we do! And although Agnes is unforgettable, nevertheless it is Tobias who gets the climactic "aria," an attempt to put his house in order. The dramatist calls our bluff on what we mean by "friends," fusing big ideas in three elegant acts, crystallizing mysterious beauty from carefully chosen words. The result is a theatrical touchstone, one of Edward Albee's many masterpieces, a magnificent gem of a play." The 1974 movie was direted by Tony Richardson and starred Hepburn, Betsy Blair, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Joseph Cotton, and Kate Reid. [1 copy available]
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ACTING TECHNIQUES
by John Perry. Color photos illustrate throughout. Condition: Pre-read 1997 Betterway large hardcover, no printing given. Edge wear to DJ. Interior clean. No problems - just pre-read. Content: From drama to farce, this photo-packed book offers a complete how-to reference to the craft of acting. Actors will find exercises for strengthening their focus and concentration, refining stage movements, improving voice, and understanding characters. 390 color illustrations. . [1 copy available]
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FAMOUS STORIES FOR PERFORMANCE (For Schools - Children's Theatre)
by Various Authors. Cats cover. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Harcourt for the Classroom hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), first printing. Content: These are plays and teleplays suited for children's and young adult theatre classes and performances. Included: Secret Garden (teleplay); Pyramus & Thisby (stage play); Elephant's Child (stage play); Mad Tea Party (Lewis Carroll); Legend of Sleepy Hollow (stage play); Devil & Daniel Webster (stage play); Man Without a Country (stage play); Wreck of the Hesperus (Reader's Theatre); Robin Hood & Little John (Reader's Theatre); Jabberwocky (Reader's Theatre); and Brian's Song (teleplay). There's something here for every age and talent level. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF [Based on Sholom Aleichem's Stories] (The Play)
by Joseph Stein. Topol & cast movie cover art. Condition: Gently pre-read 1986 Pocket Books edition, 17th printing. Tny tear bottom front hinge, pale diagonal crease bottom back cover corner, light tanning to interior page edges. Content: The complete Broadway play - including lyrics. Absolute gem. Zero Mostel was wonderful. The movie version was very good, but . . . [1 copy available]
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Original Play)
by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Intro by Gelbart. B&W photos and drawings. Condition: NEW 1991 Applause Trade Paperback, first printing. Very pale shelf wear diagonal crease bottom front cover corner. Great B&W photos of the original Broadway cast, the revival cast, and the movie cast. Color photo of Walton's original Broadway set. Content: Reviewer: ""Forum" is one of those rare musical comedies...one of those we hardly ever stuble across. "Forum" is actually funny. And I don't just mean "haha" funny. I mean roll in the aisles and laugh until it hurts funny. The jokes just never stop coming-even during the musical numbers! Here, one can see the springboard for three Tony award winning broadway productions: the script. This is the foundation of "Forum's" comic genius, with a combination of low-brow vaudeville and high-brow wordplay. Comedy in this show hits you at every level in every direction! The best part is that several songs cut from the show are included in an appendix. There is also a great introduction that explains that long and rough journey "Forum" took before it became a huge hit." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE (The Play)
by Tennessee Williams. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Signet paperback, 17th printing. The cover has small edgewear & the first page has small shelfwear crease. Content: This is one of Williams' earliest, and in some respects his most timeless, of his scripts. No one can argue that it his most autobiographical, as it portrays a cloyingly suffocating matriarch, Amanda, and a younger sister, Laura, who are both interchangable characters for Williams' own little St Louis family. Actually, in real life, the outcome was much more tragic, as Williams' mother had a frontal lobotomy performed on his actual sister. One can see how Williams may have harbored some deep resentments towards his mother, and he spends most of his time getting even with her in this Euripidean play. Originally staged in Chicago in 1944. Paul Newman directed a version of this play for the movies which stars Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, and Karen Allen. [1 copy available]
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HANDBOOK OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
compiled by Frank Ledlie Moore. B&W theatre stills illustrate. Intro by Dorothy Raedler. Condition: UNREAD 1974 Shocken Books Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny edge wear. Content: This book contains a complete list of characters, with an explanation of their sometimes involved relationships, and the voice in which each role is sung; a description of the setting of each score; a complete list of arias, ensembles, and choruses; a detailed snynopsis, explaining in full narrative style the intricacies of the plot; a historical note, giving the circumstances of the writing and production, as well as interesting sidelights on famous performances and personages; biographies of Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte, the third member of the famous partnership; and a bibliography. Best of all, it contains detailed, complete plots of all the operettas - children will love to read the stories. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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HOW TO WRITE A PLAY
by Raymond Hull. Condition: NEW 1983 Writer's Digest hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Tiny edge wear DJ edges. Content: Hull teaches you how to write a performable play, with scenes that work effectively for actors and directors - the most important ingredient for getting your play produced. You'll learn: how to analyze plays critically, and how that helps you write one; the six elements of drama and how to weave them into your story; how to make your characters behave like real people; what steps to follow in publishing and producing your finished play; the ins and outs of the playwriting business; and how to develop working relationships with actors and directors. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE ICEMAN COMETH (The Play)
by Eugene O'Neill. Jason Robards cover. Condition: UNREAD 1957 Vintage paperback edition, printing probably c. 1990. Tiny edgewear, name inside front cover, and light tanning to interior page edges. Content: Tragedy in four acts by Eugene O'neill, written in 1939 and produced and published in 1946. Considered by many to be his finest work, the drama exposes the human need for illusion and hope as antidotes to the natural condition of despair. O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a ragged collection of alcoholics in a rundown New York tavern-hotel run by Harry Hope. The saloon regulars numb themselves with whiskey and make grandiose plans, but they do nothing. They await the arrival of big-spending Theodore Hickman ("Hickey"), who forces his cronies to pursue their much-discussed plans, hoping that real failure will make them face reality. Hickey finally confesses that he killed his long-suffering wife just hours before he arrived at Harry's, and he turns himself in to the police. The others slip back into an alcoholic haze, clinging to their dreams once more. The Broadway play is on DVD starring Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, James Broderick. [1 copy available]
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IMPROVISATION FOR THE THEATER
by Viola Spolin (Originator of Theater Games). B&W drawings. Condition: Very good pre-read 1972 Northwestern hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), 7th printing. DJ shows light edge wear. Interior clean & tight. Content: This work has inspired the work of countless actors, directors, and writers in theatre, television and film. Spolin's improvisational techniques have changed the very nature and practice of modern theatre. This third edition updates the more than 200 now-classic exercises and adds 30 new ones. It adds 30 traditional theatre games that are frequently used as warm-ups. It includes Spolin's explanations of key concepts crucial to her programme, and collects "The Sayings of Viola Spolin" and adds a glossary of phrases for teachers and directors, with Spolin's definitions of their meaning and value. Most significantly, though, this edition makes available "The Lone Actor". In this section, Spolin offers games for individuals to play when they are alone. It is an important piece that should expand Spolin's teachings and influence to an entirely new audience. Spolin, who died in 1994, developed her improvisational techniques of using "game" exercises while teaching with the WPA Recreational Project in Chicago. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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JELLY'S LAST JAM (The Play & Lyrics)
by George C. Wolfe. Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. Gary Kelley cover art. Music by Jelly Roll Morton. Intro by John Lahr. Condition: UNREAD 1993 Theatre Communications Group hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Light shelf wear to DJ edges. Content: A Broadway musical woven loosely around the music of the famous Jelly Roll Morton. The casts have included: Gregory Hines, Keith David, and Stanley Wayne Mathis. [1 copy available]
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THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (The Play)
by Carson McCullers. Winner of the NY Drama Critics and Donaldson Awards. Cover shows the original cast of Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, & a very young Brandon de Wilde. Condition: NEW c. 2000 New Directions Trade Paperback, 26th printing. Original edition 1951. Content: In Carson McCullers' writing, every word evokes the tragic and miraculous emotional truths of ordinary experience. Her characters are complex, even weird, but feel entirely genuine; her scenes are accessible even when they aren't familiar. Frankie Adams is hungry for escape, hungry for belonging; it is her peculiar resolution to this classic adolescent paradox that makes her unique. Frankie finds a new identity in her determination to become an integral part of her brother's wedding: "At last she knew just who she was and understood where she was going. She loved her brother and the bride and she was a member of the wedding. The three of them would go into the world and they would always be together." This fantasy transforms Frankie's twelve-year old perspective on herself, her relationships, and her small southern hometown. Her inevitable disillusionment and ultimate survival seem almost mythical, yet the tale is told in the simplest terms. The ongoing conversations in the hot kitchen between Frankie, her cousin John Henry, and the cook Berenice resonate with social and personal authenticity. This is a story to be read and reread, to be heard and felt and trusted. [1 copy available]
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OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS (Basis for Broadway musical Cats
by T. S. Eliot. B&W drawings by Edward Gorey. Condition: UNREAD c. 1982 Harcourt Harvest Trade Paperback, 15th printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: This is an absolutely marvelous rendition of Eliot's poetic classic, written for his godchildren and friends in the 1930s, which inspired the Broadway musical Cats. The tales of Mr. Mistoffelees the trickmaster, old Deuteronomy, a laid-back cat, Rum Tum Tugger, a contrary cat, and Macavity, the famous master criminal, are all here - plus others. [1 copy available]
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PLAY DIRECTING: Analysis, Communication and Style
by Francis Hodge. Detailed drawings and photos illustrate. Condition: Very Good 1975 Prentice Hall hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), fourth printing. While the book is in excellent condition, the DJ has edgewear and nicks. Content: How a director thinks and works - how he communicates with actors and designers - how he finds individual expression in play production. Older but still interesting and relevant. [1 copy available]
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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE ACTOR
by Melissa Bruder, Lee M. Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, & Scott Zigler. Condition: UNREAD 1986 Vintage Book soft cover, first edition, no printing given. Light edgewear. Content: Introduction by David Mamet. 6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playwright David Mamet at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. [1 copy available]
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PUSHING UP THE SKY: Seven Native American Plays for Children
by Joseph Bruchac. B&W and beautiful color illustratins by Teresa Flavin. Condition: NEW 2000 Dial Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), seventh printing. Content: Bruchac adapts seven traditional tales from various tribes into plays for children. Each play is introduced with a brief tribal background, a list of characters, suggestions for props and scenery, and recommended costumes. Representing tribes from Bruchac's own Abenaki to the Cherokee, Tlingit, and Zuni, the plays are mostly pourquoi tales, explaining how mosquitos came into the world or why stars are visible at night. Black-and-white drawings, contributed by Teresa Flavin, suggest backdrops and enhance the reader's enjoyment. Easily modified for various numbers of children, and easily produced with everyday materials, these plays offer an excellent extension of American Indian studies for elementary students as well as models for student writing. Performance and photocopying rights are granted for school and home performances as long as no admittance fees are charged. The Plays: Gluskabe and Old Man Winter (Abenaki); Star Sisters (Ojibway); Possum's Tail (Cherokee); Wihio's Duck Dance (Cheyenne); Pushing Up the Sky (Snohomish); Cannibal Monster (Tlingit); and The Stronget One (Zuni). [1 copy available]
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THE STARGAZERS: A Historical Drama in Two Acts
by Joseph Cowley (The Chrysanthemum Garden). Condition: NEW 2000 Author's Choice Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: The planetary observations of the Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) provide the data upon which Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) will later base his famous three laws accurately describing the revolutions of the planets around the sun. The play's conflict stems not only from Kepler's urgent need for Tycho's observations to prove his theories, and Tycho's equally urgent desire not to share them before he can use them (with Kepler's help) to prove his own, but also from the utterly different characters of the two men. Kepler is an advocated of the Copernican sun-centered system, Tycho of the Ptolemaic earth-centered system. Kepler's cunning and seeming weakness are pitted against Tycho's arrogance and seeming strength. A stake is the glory and fame for one of the greatest discoveries of all time: how the solar system works. This conflict will keep you on the edge of your seat from first page to last. [1 copy available]
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (The Play)
by Tennessee Williams. Marlon Brando cover with 8 pages of B&W movie and theatre stills. Condition: Very good, gently pre-read to page 80, 1951 Signet papearback, 49th printing. Tiny edge wear with pale spine crease. The interior is clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: This is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It gave us Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian and crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy. The 1951 movie was directed by Elia Kazan and shot to fame Marlon Brando as Stanley with the beautiful Vivien Leigh as the doomed Blanche. Also starring: Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Nick Denis, Ann Dere, Rudy Bond, and Peg Hillias. [1 copy available]
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (The Play - Acting Edition)
by Tennessee Williams. B&W stage design with 1 B&W photo of the play. Condition: UNREAD c. 1990 Dramatists Play Service soft cover (stapled wraps), no year nor edition given. Content: This is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It gave us Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian and crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy. The 1951 movie was directed by Elia Kazan and shot to fame Marlon Brando as Stanley with the beautiful Vivien Leigh as the doomed Blanche. Also starring: Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Nick Denis, Ann Dere, Rudy Bond, and Peg Hillias. [1 copy available]
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Three Plays about Crime and Criminals: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, DETECTIVE STORY, KIND LADY
edited and with introductions by George Freedley. Condition: UNREAD 1962 Pocket small hardcover (everbind), 22nd printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: The complete plays of Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring; Detective Story by Sidney Kingsley; and King Lady by Edward Chodorov. [1 copy available]
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THREE TRAGEDIES: Blood Wedding, Yerma, and Bernarda Alba
by Federica Garcia Lorca. Translated by James Graham-Lujan and Richard O'Connell. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, c. 1955 New Directions trade paperback, no printing given. While the interior is clean & tight, there is edgewear with rubbings along both hinges. Content: Federico García Lorca (1898-1937) was born in Granada, Spain. A poet and playwright (Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba), he was killed by the Falangists in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Reviewer: "I was recommended Lorca's work this week by a good friend of mine. He's a genius! His work is poetic. If you're not a fan of poetry (and I can see where people will object to his style, even though I personally adore it) get past the poetry/song of the older women to the ending and you will astonished! Lorca's incredible with his last few pages. They'll leave you completely amazed. This is an amazing translation." There is a wonderful 1996 movie about his life called The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca directed by Marcos Zurinaga. It stars two of our best actors, Andy Garcia and Esai Morales. Great background. [1 copy available]
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TWILIGHT LOS ANGELES, 1992
by Anna Deavere Smith. B&W photo section with Smith's "characters" back cover. Condition: Gently pre-read, probably, 1994 Anchor Books Trade Paperback, 7th printing. Not crisp with light tanning to page edges. Content: Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event. "It is a wonderful work with a documentary foundation that educates you on the happenings during the infamous Los Angeles riots, from Korean shopkeepers to Black gang members to White-male politicians--Smith has made sure every reader gets the full spectrum of views. Each monologue is actually an interview Smith personally conducted; each are placed in an order that somehow manages to flow together to tell a collective story of an unfortunate occurence in recent American history and justice. It will remind you that the passions of the event had personal roots for all involved." [1 copy available]
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VASARI ON THEATRE
by Thomas A. Pallen. Condition: NEW c. 1999 Southern Illinois Univ. Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: In the process of creating the massive work that eventually became Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, painter and scholar Giorgio Vasari (1511­–1574) spent much of the mid-sixteenth century traveling throughout Italy, meeting Renaissance artists and writing about their lives and works. From this imposing source, Thomas A. Pallen has created a compendium of theatrical references augmented by related modern Italian scholarship. Vasari's Lives—daunting because of its sheer magnitude—has remained relatively obscure to English-speaking theatre historians. To introduce the numerous scenographic references of this great work to the English-speaking audience, Pallen provides new translations of all relevant passages, as well as a table of cross-references to the principal editions of Vasari in both English and Italian. And because Vasari often omitted important information, Pallen annotates the text, providing important names, places, and historical background. Essentially, Pallen divides Vasari's work into four categories: triumphs and pageantry, ingegni for mystery plays and festivals, theatrical scenery, and miscellanea and lacunae. Although triumphs and pageantry were not directly theatrical, they were executed by many of the same artists who worked on theatrical productions and either used or introduced many Renaissance Italian theatrical techniques. The works described here range from tableaux vivants and other forms of street decoration to fireworks displays. While Vasari did not personally know the work of either Filippo Brunelleschi or Francesco d'Angelo (called Cecca), he discusses their inventions for staging mystery plays and street festivals; indeed, Pallen shows how the work of these two artists paved the way for all later Renaissance scenography. Pallen then deals with Vasari's references to and descriptions of the theatrical scenery and lighting effects of his time and the artists who created them. In accordance with the schema developed by Elena Povoledo, Pallen leads the reader through the evolution of scenographic thought and practice from the elementary work of Girolamo Genga to the advanced settings created by Vasari himself. [1 copy available]
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The Pandemonium Theater Company Presents THE WONDERFUL ICE CREAM SUIT and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow
by Ray Bradbury. Condition: UNREAD, but far from perfect, 1972 Bantam paperback, second printing. Small edgewear with moderate tanning to page edges and inside covers. Small black "smudge" front cover that I can't seem to remove. Interior clean & tight. Content: This book contains 3 plays: The Veldt, In the Chicago Abyss, and The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit - all by Bradbury. The most famous is "Ice Cream Suit." Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true. The great 1998 movie was directed by Stuart Gordon from a screenplay by Bradbury. It starred Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales (great & underused), Edward James Olmos, Clifton Collins Jr., Gregory Sierra, Sid Caesar, Howard Morris, Liz Torres, and the hilarious Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez (of the "John Wayne players"). Don't miss it. [1 copy available]
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THEATRE BOOKPLATE
art by unknown artist. Condition: NEW package of 12 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 3.5 wide x 2.5 high. Content: White elements of the Arts on a black background with a magenta border. We can personalize your bookplate (the font is CroissantD) - just email us the name. Any questions, click here to email us.
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