Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6664&N=3+4007 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1275001 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1199342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1199343 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1228990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962774 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110948 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945662 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688556 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=654179 When Gus Edwards discovered that the majority of the young actors, playwrights, and teachers he encountered didnt know who Nat Turner was - nor many other key men and women in black history - he summoned the power of theatre to correct the situation. Black Heroes in Monologues brings these and other influential African Americans to life once again.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584920 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584923 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=581712 A collection of 111 original monologues, all about one minute long, to be used by male and female teenage actors in auditions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649060 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584897 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584991 The scope of this book extends far beyond New York, recognizing as it does the vitality and the innovative contributions of resident theaters throughout the country. The invaluable survey of the season around the United States includes the American Theatre Critics Associations Steinberg New Play Award and Citations, plus a directory of more than 300 new play productions and readings at resident theaters everywhere. As always this compendious book is illustrated with scores of photographs of productions in New York and around the United States.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=568576 Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy monologues, or a student on need of the right speech for workshop, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women offers an array of speeches from a diverse range of first-class playwrights. With 25 speeches for characters ranging in age from 20 to 65, The Faber Book of Monologues for Women contains a variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by an assembly of playwrights. Each selection includes a synopsis of the play together with character commentary as well as recommendations for accents and reference to first performance. Jane Edwards, Theater Editor at Time Out magazine, also provides a general introduction with helpful hints for the audition process.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620328 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521207 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=521208 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=492921 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=570393 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=514456 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632605 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=381152 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529621 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=488201 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487698 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=405302 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=501081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430658 A look at Classical Theatre from the ancient Greeks to 1900. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=448233 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431118 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=440896 Playwrights include Shay Youngblood, Imani Harrington, Sandra Rodriquez, Candido Tirado, Marijo, Mario Golden, Chiori Miyagawa, Michael John Garcs, Migdalia Cruz, Carmen Rivera, and Alfonso Ramirez. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433689 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418646 Showcasing several Pulitzer- and Academy Award-winning playwrights, as well as pieces by cutting edge Off-Broadway and regional theater writers, Leading Women presents challenging roles for women of all ages, experiences, and ethnic backgrounds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=428646 September 11, 2001, began like any other fall day at Stuyvesant High School near the World Trade Center. Then the attacks happened. In an effort to respond and rebuild, one group of students created with their eyes. Thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always moving, these monologues of their thoughts describe a day that shook their school to its foundation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=434600 In the latest edition of the 60-year-old series, editor Mark Glubke presents a group of fresh voiced, cutting-edge plays for the new millennium, including Sheri Wilners poignant Relative Strangers, Gary Sunshines lyrical Al Takes a Bride, and Laurence Klavans darkly humorous The Summer Sublet. The plays in this volume are sure to inspire, challenge, and entertain. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466515 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=404635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=404636 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=407037 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=442346 More outstanding cuttings from cutting edge contemporary plays and playwrights. The monologs in this new text are highly original works not found in other published versions. All are from very recently produced plays from both established and emerging new writers. The fifty selections are for actors 10 to 24 years of age, suitable for competitive auditions, forensics, oral interpretation or acting exercises. The collection is divided equally between male and female characters, with a variety of pieces for minority actors. These monologs address the major trends and conflicts of today through revealing glimpses of society as we know it. Includes the work of forty contemporary playwrights. A must for any auditioning actor or theatre student. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=393076 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=423131 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=373120 -- A complete guide the past theater season -- on Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway and around the country. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=314472 Plays for the Theatre, Seventh Edition, continues its rich tradition of providing insightful and absorbing plays for the contemporary stage. The goal of this edition has been to select plays that typify a wide range of cultural diversity and dramatic power, including recent plays written by an African American, an Asian American, a Latino, and an American female of Jewish heritage. Plays for the Theatre, edited by Oscar G. Brockett with Robert Ball, is a companion to The Essential Theatre, Seventh Edition, in which selections from Plays are placed within historical and cultural context, providing a richer and more rewarding exploration of the people and ideas that have shaped todays theatre. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291632 Some playwrights featured include: Cherrie Moraga, Edgar White, William S. Yellow Robe, Chin Woon Ping, David Henry Wang, James Baldwin, Linda Parris-Bailey, Bina Sharif and Alice Childress. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=300720 From plays produced on shoestring budgets in the 1970s to todays high-tech performance pieces, Latina theater has emerged as a vibrant art form whose time has come. This anthology showcases this dynamic new genre through the works of established playwrights such as Cherrie Moraga and Dolores Prida as well as talented new playwrights and performers who have emerged in the past decade such as Migdalia Cruz, Elaine Romero, and Monica Palacios. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=323387 These six plays nicely illustrate the battle of the sexes in the early twentieth century over such issues as the double standard, the advent of the New Woman and turn-of-the-century feminism, and the clash between a womans career and conventional marriage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313893 Telling Tales presents extensive excerpts from the works of more than 50 solo writer/performers, as well as prefatory material that situates their efforts in historical context. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=319776 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291033 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=295993 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=152093 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=61903 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=287411 Teachers nationwide have a great need for good, up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity for literature classes, oral interpretation and forensics. Roger Ellis original multicultural anthology of scenes and monologs has been in popular use for several years. Now, heres a unique anthology of complete plays from new writers of the multicultural experience. These plays have been gleaned from over I00 playscripts on the basis of the opinions of producers, directors and audiences. Each of these plays contains a significant number of roles capable of being played by young actors. A valuable text for literary, forensics or theatrical applications. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=56479 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=86834 Presented with the right plays, children are the most honest and appreciative of audiences. This anthology, compiled by an authority on childrens theatre, collects new and overlooked scripts that represent the best of modern playwriting for children. From works adapted from classic childrens stories to original contemporary scripts, each play inspires the imagination as it entertains. With complete scripts for twenty plays plus a biographical sketch of each play-wright, Theatre for Young Audiences is valuable for anyone involved in childrens theatre, from community theatre groups to teachers and students of dramatic literature.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=239421 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=224344 A collection of scenes from Hispanic as well as Native-American, African-American, Jewish-American, and Asian-American theater; background information and discussion/analysis follow each scene. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=124338 The plays that Nina Shengold and Eric Lane have collected in this volume range from monologues to an eight-character farce. They take in the metaphysical slapstick of David Ivess The Philadelphia and the breathtaking ferocity of Dana Yeatons Helen at Risk, and contain parts across the entire spectrum of age, race, and gender. Eminently producible, ideally suited for the classroom and audition, Take Ten is a marvelous resource for actors, directors, and producers, as well as a stimulating read for lovers of the theatre.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299581 This unique volume includes The Gladiator and seven other early dramas that mirror American literary, social, and cultural history: Royall Tylers The Contrast (1787), a Sheridian satire about fashion-conscious New Yorkers; William Dunlaps Andre (1798); James Nelson Barkers telling of the Pocahontas story, the Indian Princess (1808); William Henry Smiths The Drunkard (1844); Anna Cora Mowatts Fashion (1845), the most successful nineteenth-century play by a female American playwright; George L. Aikens 1852 dramatization of Uncle Toms Cabin; and The Octoroon (1859), Dion Boucicaults tragedy concerning a young woman doomed by her racial heritage.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=245723 Rappaccinis Daughter is the Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz lyrical tale of love, death and living for the present. Night of the Assassins is Cuban Jose Trianas controversial masterpiece, in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents. Griselda Gambaros Saying Yes is an Argentine black comedy about mans grotesque inhumanity to man. Orchids in the Moonlight is Carlos Fuentes dream play about the love between two Mexican women exiled in Hollywoods maze of mirrors. In Mistress of Desires, Mario Vargas Llosa erotically interweaves reality and fantasy as he investigates sex and money in darkest Peru.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=148708 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=536887 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=178758 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=274955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=22112 A collection of fifteen short plays for young adults including works by Thornton Wilder, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and David French. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=32555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=168214 Now, a unique collection to make students aware of the wide range of drama offered by women playwrights, past and present. This scenebook takes a different approach from other collections of scenes. Instead of Isolated cuttings from a large number of plays, this book presents a number of scenes from each play. Students are given a more comprehensive view of each drama, as well as a better feeling for the playwrights style and message. The scenes range from less than two minutes to ten or more minutes. Students using the book for acting and directing practice may begin with short scenes and move on to longer scenes. Each series of scenes is preceded by an introduction that provides a background on the playwrights and the plays to help in interpreting the roles and scenes. Each scene is also preceded by discussion questions to help students develop characterizations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=128628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=127714 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=223038 VOICES OF COLOR is the first collection of scenes and monologues by African-American playwrights. While scene and monologue books proliferate by and for the dominant culture, there has rarely been significant representation of the vibrant literary contributions of African American theatre artists. Until now. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=529618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=102467 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=104558 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103724 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103723 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103720 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=206213 This is the largest collection of Best American Short Plays since its inception in 1937. The editors were so deeply impressed with the quality and character of this years candidates that they selected a record-breaking 16 plays to represent the remarkable harvest of the 1992-1993 season. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217181 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210306 A variety of stories from the pens of classical and contemporary writers, journalists and playwrights have been adapted for Readers Theatre performance in this new collection of scripts by a nationally-known authority on the subject, The success of Readers Theatre proves you dont need scenery or costumes to create a stirring dramatic performance. Sometimes called theatre of the imagination. Readers Theatre communicates in a style similar to the golden clays of radio theatre. Its ease of performance makes these scripts ideal for the drama classroom. Sample titles include: The Tooth Fairy Who Didnt Have Any Teeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Sir de Maletroits Door, The Wind in the Willows and Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Included is a section defining Readers Theatre as a performance art. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228806 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210847 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103719 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=229242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=231262 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=234032