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The Broadway DiariesEver wonder about the person who just handed you a Playbill?Of course not.Ushers, ticket takers, those who work the front of the house on Broadway are often the unsung workers of the Great White Way. But in this heartfelt, funny, informative memoir of Broadway's...
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Rooney Eats It! A Brit's Take on Pimps, Child Deaths and Other Fun Movie StuffChick flicks. Brokeback Mountain. Bollywood. Superhero movies. Sophie's Choice. Sandra Bullock. Avant-garde musicals... If this sort of stuff is your cup of tea, then this isn't the book for you. Blokey film enthusiast Dave Franklin instead concentrates on the politically incorrect delights of Coffy,...
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The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television DramaInformed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Media scholars Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of...
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Knots LandingAiring on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979-93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots...
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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969The "Gothic" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way, and took a daring approach to...
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2024 Wall CalendarFor the first time ever, the Emmy-nominated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is available as a collectable calendar! With Captain Pike (Anson Pike) at the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise after the events of Star Trek: Discovery season two, these gorgeous photos document their...
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Star Trek: Cats 2024 Wall CalendarTo boldly go. These kitties are headed to the final frontier in the Star Trek(TM) Cats 2024 Wall Calendar! Illustrator Jey Parks hilariously repopulates classic episodes from Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation as fabulous felines. Part satirical send-up,...
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A Nice Family ChristmasIt's Christmas Eve, and a young newspaper reporter on the brink of being fired has been assigned a last-chance story about a typical family Christmas - his family's Christmas. He goes home to his recently widowed mother, his crazy uncle, his eccentric grandmother, and...
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BreadcrumbsA reclusive fiction writer diagnosed with dementia must depend upon a troubled young caretaker to complete her autobiography. In a symbiotic battle of wills, they delve into the dark woods of the past, unearthing a tragedy that shatters their notions of language, loneliness and...
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TruWinner 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. An excerpt from Capote's infamous novel Answered Prayers has recently...
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Sunday on the RocksOn a beautiful Sunday morning in mid-October, three housemates decide to have scotch for breakfast in this play by the author of Spike Heels and Loose Knit. Elly is pregnant and considering an abortion, Jen is being harassed by a co-worker who is obsessed...
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Those the River KeepsPhil, a supporting character in the author's Hurlyburly, takes center stage in this haunting drama about trying to escape the past. A former mob hitman, Phil is in Hollywood trying to make it as a television actor. He's had a few bit parts, but...
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In the Lurch: Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic DeliberationSome of theater's most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and The Vagina Monologues have at their...
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The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem PlaysWhat is it that makes Shakespeare's problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas's new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture...
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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil WarsAuthor: Heidi CraigPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/09/2023Pages: 255Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781009224031This title is not returnable
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Two Weeks Strait: How to Succeed When Your Hands are TiedI spent two weeks in a straitjacket.Set a world record at eighteen years old.Raised over $15,000.And donated the entire sum toThe Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.But why did I strap myself into an antiquated medical restraintfor fourteen days? How is that even...
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Spike LeeSince the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popular audiences while at the same time engaging in substantial political and social commentary. He is arguably the most accomplished...
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Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and TheoriesThe field of performance studies analyses the production and impact of on-stage performance, such as in a theatre or circus, and off-stage performance, such as cultural rituals and political protests. Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts and Theories introduces students to 34 key topics seen...
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Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern HorrorMuch has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time that Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorcese were producing their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film. Shock Value tells...
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That's Your LotThis is Limmy's second book.It's a whole load of new, odd and hilariously grim short stories.Tom is in a soft play with his daughters. He's bored. He's so bored he can move things with his mind.A man fills up a mate's biscuit tin without...
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