Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+4004&No=20 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671795 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1391214 Luke and Adam are in love and have been living together for several years even though Luke, a closeted, conservative Christian, feels his homosexual desires are sinful. When Luke is in an accident and dying, his parents arrive on the scene, marginalizing Adam. The play includes flashbacks of Luke and Adams developing relationship, plus the drama unfolding in the hospital. A look at love and marriage, and how we face death, regardless of faith or sexual orientation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213485 Four couples arrive, in turn, from New York, Philadelphia, London and Chicago and seprately inhabit a suite at The Beverly Hills Hotel, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. The view from Beverly Hills will never look the same!--Cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427544 Alex DelFlavio is an ambitious downtown artist who plans to include sexually explicit photographs in his uptown show to advance his career. Nan Bemiss, the wife of a Republican senator who is running for the presidency and a gallery board member, appeals to DelFlavio to remove three of his most offensive photographs for the opening. Unexpectedly, Nan is liberated in the process--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548294 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1128492 This cutting of ROMEO AND JULIET is edited to four key scenes, starting with the lyrical prologue and the foreboding opening brawl. The cutting includes the timeless balcony scene; the harsh scolding of Juliet by her father; and the final moments at the tomb. Also includeed is an essay by editor Nick Newlin on how to produce a Shakespeare play with novice actors, and notes about the original production of this abridgement at the Folger Shakespeare Librarys annual Student Shakespeare Festival.--publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116103 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304020 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1199343 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1199342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110948 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129683 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945662 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988465 Based on Charles & Mary Lambs 20 Tales From Shakespeare, augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeares plays, featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962326 Based on Charles & Mary Lambs 20 Tales From Shakespeare, augmented by miscellaneous scenes and soliloquies from Shakespeares plays, featuring Elizabethan songs and dances in new arrangements for stringed instruments. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1017874 Young, handsome Dorian Gray, after having his portrait painted, sits admiring the artists rendering. It is then that he makes a wish for the portrait to change as he ages, but for his actual visage to stay the same. He gets his wish, and despite his hedonistic, sinful lifestyle, Dorian remains young and innocent looking. As those around him witness his excessive habits, they wonder if Dorian Gray will ever get his just dues. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988219 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053344 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1022731 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1012284 [This is an] 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. -http://www.loc.gov/catdir http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962774 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1006270 Based on Charles and Mary Lambs 20 Tales from Shakespeare, the first volume of An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment features scene and soliloquy selections from William Shakespeares finest plays as well as musical arrangements from Englands Elizabethan period. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1720721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1010731 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=960788 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938837 Bates Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeares life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110205 In 19th century England, two roguish bachelors unwittingly use the same pseudonym for their romantic activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127554 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055789 [This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1188331 A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=957240 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804342 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810934 In 1950s Chicago, three generations of Youngers live in a run-down apartment. As these black Americans struggle to overcome a variety of challenges, hope suddenly looms on the horizon. The familys matriarch is poised to receive insurance money from her husbands death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671794 Contains Shakespeares play involving young Athenian lovers, a boisterous group of local tradesmen, and the monarchs and subjects of the fairy kingdom; and includes textual notes, scene-by-scene analyses, an introduction to Shakespeares theater career, and a chronology of Shakespeares works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=886356 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729481 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=735714 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741765 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724364 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661939 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729483 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721509 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614572 ONeills themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays which are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here are nine one-act plays that span the playwrights career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688556 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734802 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594847 This new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. This volume contains works that have never previously been translated, including the newly discovered farce The Power of Hypnotism and the first version of Ivanov, as well as Chekhovs early humorous dialogues. It also contains a description of lost plays and those Chekhov intended to write but never did.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634983 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=735092 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=627095 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614400 In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Millers plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584923 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652989 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584920 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114873 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677174 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=676594 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734608 Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Shebas lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Sheba becomes uneasy with Barbaras friendship. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbaras cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. Sheba chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677176 As an actor at any level - from school exam to professional casting - you are likely to be called upon to perform one or more audition pieces - often a classical piece is specified. A great deal will depend on your coming up with something fresh that is suited both to your particular performing skills and to the period of the play you are auditioning for. Which is where this volume of The Good Audition Guides comes in. Drawing on her enormous experience as a theatre director and in drama training - she has sat on the selection board of several leading drama schools - Marina Caldarone has chosen for this volume fifty monologues for female actors selected from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre. Each monologue is prefaced with a neat summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and to perform it to maximum effect and in your own unique way. The volume also carries a user-friendly introduction on the whole process of auditioning.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729826 At a boys grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher who sees history as entertainment; Mrs. Lintott, a traditionalist, who teaches history, not histrionics; and, a Headmaster obsessed with results. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693303 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734636 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649034 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651216 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=604779 One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barkers classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this adaptation. For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm from his aging father, discovers the embezzlement that has been keeping his relatives in a life of luxury, he must weigh the trappings of wealth and the imperative to preserve his familys good name against the better principles of his conscience. But moral righteousness turns to self-protection when he comes to understand fully the consequences of his inheritance.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620324 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634491 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561117 Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. Now the most extensively annotated edition of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffels on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. And in his introduction he provides religious and social contexts that increase the readers understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Macbeth is the playwrights most internalized drama.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584901 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749130 Explores the history of Chavez Ravine, the immigrant community that once existed on the site that is now Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=619228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620396 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=699996 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=1174999 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620328 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634496 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=572580 More than a century since Chekhovs death, his artistic influence continues to be felt throughout literature and the theater, where many refer to him as the progenitor of modern drama. Why is it that as frequently as Chekhovs work is performed in the modern English-speaking theater, it is so often stuck in interpretations that are historically accurate but bereft of contemporary resonance and genuine passion? Why does his prose often sound stilted, precious, forced, and humorless? To anyone who has read him in the Russian, this is the furthest from a description of his language that anyone could imagine. In Russian, Chekhov is blunt, muscular, even coarse, simultaneously funny and sad because he is so uncomplicated. In these new translations of Chekhovs four greatest plays - Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard - the theatrical translator Curt Columbus recaptures the masters open-ended simplicity, at once colloquial and accurate. He endows these timeless dramas with dialogue that is faithful to the Russian original but attuned to contemporary audiences.--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=584897 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561122 From the hilarious mischief of Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeares lyrical A Midsummer Nights Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love. Now the most extensively annotated edition of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffels on-page annotations offer help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. In his introduction, he explores the complexities of A Midsummer Nights Dream. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the plays extraordinary melange of characters.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594893 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561126 Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality. Despite many successful productions, his work has never before been widely available in print. The four plays in this collection represent Houstons full range of themes and styles, from Texas history fo African mythology, from farce to domestic drama. All four plays contain characters that actors can sink their teeth into, as well as themes and theatrical techniques of interest to the scholar and the teacher. Houstons is an important voice in theatre, available for the first time to a wide audience.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584894 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594832 The latest play from the author of The Weir, published alongside the premiere at the Royal Court Theatre and the Dublin Theatre Festival. Ian has left the priesthood to become a therapist. John is one of his first clients. Johns wife has been killed in a car accident, and he keeps seeing her ghost. As John recovers with Ians help, Ian himself is going under with troubles of his own.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590972