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Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-02
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781557832368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season
Author: Ousmane Diakhate
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 1136359567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781557832504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season
Author: Don Rubin (Series Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1134929854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the first internationally published overviews of theatrical activity across the Arab World. Includes 160,000 words and over 125 photographs from 22 different Arab countries from Africa to the Middle East.
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2006-05
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781557836502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Theatre World). Celebrating its 60th year, this Theatre World remains the authoritative and pictorial record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway seasons and touring companies. Volume 60 features the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 2004 and the Tony Award-winning Best Play, Douglas Wright's I Am My Own Wife , which also earned star Jefferson Mays the Best Leading Actor in a Play Tony Award. Avenue Q , the human-plus-puppet Tony Award winner for Best Musical, made news announcing that it will only play on Broadway and in Las Vegas. Other highlights of the season include the six-time Drama Desk Award-winning blockbuster musical Wicked ; two of Off-Broadway's most successful and acclaimed shows, Bug and Sarah Jone's bridge and tunnel ; and the world premieres of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean , at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Imaginery Friends with Cherry Jones and Swoozie Kurtz, at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. As always, Theatre World 's outstanding features include: An expanded highlights section of professional regional productions from across the U.S.; A listing of all the major theatrical awards; The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway; Biographical data, obituaries, and a comprehensive index.
Author: Nat Eek
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0865347980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In June 1965 a group of dedicated professional artists of the theatre met in Paris, France, to create the International Association of Theatre for Children and Youth (ASSITEJ). This edition covers the organization from 1976-1990, a period of the greatest divisiveness, which ultimately resulted in a rededication and a worldwide expansion under new leadership.
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2004-11
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781557836359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(Theatre World). Highlights of this new Theatre World , now in its 59th year, include the 8-Tony winning Hairspray with award winners Harvey Firestein and Marissa Jaret Winokur; the Tony-winning Best Play Take Me Out ; hot director David Leveaux's reimagining of Nine: The Musical , featuring the sensational Antonio Banderas and Jane Krakowski; the star-studded revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night with Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard; and the groundbreaking Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam . Notable Off-Broadway and touring productions include the anti-death penalty play The Exonerated ; Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five ; Dinner at Eight with the late John Ritter; Talking Heads with Lynn Redgrave, Christine Ebersole and Kathleen Chalfant; and the highly regarded Stephen Adly Guirgis' Our Lady of 121st St. Theatre World, the statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway seasons, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States, is a classic in its field. The book is complete with cast listings, replacements, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, and song titles. There are special sections with biographical data, obituary information, a longest-runs listing, an expanded theatrical awards section, and much more. Now featuring 16 pages of color photos! Over 600 photos in all. "Nothing brings back a theatrical season better, or holds on to it more lovingly, than John Willis' Theatre World an addiction for theatre buffs." Playbill "If you're looking for an elaborate visual record of a theatrical season, you'll want to opt for Theatre World ... It's a keeper." Back Stage
Author: Ben Hodges
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 1423492714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of the 2009-2010 theatre season includes photos, a complete cast listing, producers, directors, authors, composers, opening and closing dates, song titles and plot synopses for more than 1,000 Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway and regional shows, as well as the past year's obituaries, a listing of all award nominees and winners and an index.
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2000-02
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781557832047
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