The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

By Alan Bennett

George III's behaviour has usually been unusual, yet now he's deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree because the King of Prussia. medical professionals are introduced in, the govt wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into strength. Alan Bennett's play explores the court docket of a mad king, and the frightened remedies he used to be pressured to suffer. it really is in regards to the nature of kingship itself, displaying how through sophisticated levels the ruler's delirium erodes his authority and standing.

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A Retake Please!: Night Mail to Western Approaches by Pat Jackson

By Pat Jackson

This memoir is an strange contribution to the historical past of movie and cinema. At its centre is the tale of the making of the British movie vintage Western ways, the 1st tale documentary in Technicolor, absolutely enacted by way of amateurs. It was once nominated for the simplest movie from any resource Oscar.

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Theatres of Oakland (Images of America) by Jack Tillmany, Jennifer Dowling

By Jack Tillmany, Jennifer Dowling

Oakland has a wealthy theatre background, from the amusements of a gas-lit downtown mild opera and vaudeville level within the 1870s to the ornate cinematic get away portals of the nice melancholy. Dozens of local theatres, as soon as the location of relations outings and primary dates, stay adored stories within the lives of Oaklanders. town can nonetheless boast 3 amazing motion picture palaces from the golden age of cinema: the incomparable paintings deco Paramount, which now deals dwell performances and flicks; the stately Grand Lake gracing the sinuous seashores of Lake Merritt; and the magnificently eccentric Fox Oakland, with its enforcing Hindu gods flanking the level. The Paramount and Grand Lake nonetheless stir the heartstrings of buyers with showings preceded through interludes on their robust Wurlitzer organs.

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 10, M’Intosh to by Philip H Highfill Jr

By Philip H Highfill Jr

Those featured in quantity 10 contain Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose “conjugal virtues have been usually impeached,” based on the July 1792 Thespian journal. The Diction­ary describes this least consistent of fans as “of middling peak, with a determine well-proportioned for breeches elements. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed good looks and transparent soprano made her an immedi­ate renowned good fortune in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for 1 / 4 century.”

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Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

By Sarah Ruhl

“Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s telephone Phone, Sarah Ruhl is perpetually very important in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.”—The Washington Post

“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line among lifestyles and dying gives you a clean and funny examine the days we are living in.”—Variety

“Sarah Ruhl is deliriously inventive and fearless in her number of material. She is an original.”—Molly Smith, inventive director, enviornment Stage

An frequently ringing cellphone in a quiet café. A stranger on the subsequent desk who has had sufficient. And a lifeless man—with loads of unfastened ends. So starts Dead Man’s cellphone Phone, a wildly innovative new comedy by way of playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” supply and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The fresh House. a piece approximately how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering adjustments us—it is the odyssey of a lady pressured to confront her personal assumptions approximately morality, redemption, and the necessity to attach in a technologically obsessed world.

Sarah Ruhl’s performs were produced at theaters round the nation, together with Lincoln heart Theater, the Goodman Theatre, area degree, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, between others, and across the world. She is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The fresh House, 2004), the Helen Merrill rising Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers’ Award. The fresh House used to be a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists.

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Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune by Stephen Citron

By Stephen Citron

The 1st in-depth biography of the distinguished composer/lyricist who created hi, Dolly!, Mame, and los angeles Cage aux FollesThis revealing and complete e-book tells the complete tale of Jerry Herman’s existence and occupation, from his early paintings in cabaret to his contemporary compositions for level, display, and television.Stephen Citron attracts on broad open-ended interviews with Jerry Herman in addition to with ratings of his theatrical colleagues, collaborators, and shut neighbors. The ensuing book—which sheds new gentle on every one of Herman’s musicals and their scores—abounds in attention-grabbing anecdotes and behind-the-scenes information about the realm of musical theater. Readers will discover a sharply drawn portrait of Herman’s deepest existence and his inventive abilities. Citron’s insights into Herman’s tune and lyrics, together with voluminous examples from each one of his musicals, are as instructive as they're edifying and entertaining.Stephen Citron is widely known for laying off clean gentle at the American musical theater and the artists who inhabit it. His prior books comprise Songwriting, The Musical from the interior Out, and biographies of No?l Coward, Cole Porter, Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar Hammerstein second, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett's Later Drama by Anna McMullan

By Anna McMullan

Theatre on Trial is the 1st full-length research of Samuel Beckett's later drama within the context of up to date theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a detailed, textual exam of the later performs as a springboard for exploring rules round authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of degree and television house. Her software of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's paintings will holiday new and fascinating flooring.

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