Applause imprint: 88 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights – Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others – who have gone on to establish award-winning careers.
The...
by Paul Sills
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Paul Sills, the master of improvisation and founder of The Second City and creator of Story Theatre – and who has influenced some of theatre's most important directors, writers and actors – adapts for stage one of the classic works of literature, Charles Dickens' masterpiece, A Christmas Carol....
The X-Files FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Global Conspiracy, Aliens, Lazarus Species and Monsters of the Week
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The X-Files FAQ explores Chris Carter's popular 1990s science-fiction TV series, which aired on Fox for nine seasons and inspired spin-offs, including feature films, TV shows, toys, novels, and comic books. The book explores the series in terms of its historical context and analyzes how many of the...
The Alchemy of Theatre: The Divine Science
Essays on Theatre and the Art of Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The editor of Playbill's At This Theatre and founding editor of the new Playbill Broadway Yearbook offers a collection of 26 essays on theatre by the top professionals in their fields. Includes contributions by two recently departed leading lights: playwright Wendy Wasserstein and songwriter Cy Coleman....
by Jean-Claude van Italie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare; The solo performance piece: listening for stories; Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco; The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.
In Performance
Contemporary Monologues for Men and Women Late Thirties to Forties
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
In this thoughtfully curated collection, actors preparing for an audition or searching for quality scenes to hone their chops will find a wealth of contemporary material from American and British plays. Almost all of the works are from the year 2000 to the recent 2014 Broadway production of The Curious...
Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Time-Travel, Alien, Robot and Out-of-This-World Movies Since 1970
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Many science fiction movies from the last 40 years have blazed new vistas for viewers. They've reached further into the future, traveled longer into the past, soared deeper into the vastness of the cosmos, and probed more intently inside man's consciousness than any other period of film before. And...
South Park FAQ
All That's Left to Know About The Who, What, Where, When of America's Favorite Mountain Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
There are few modern animated television shows that could survive over a decade and a half and remain as funny... or as stupid... or as sick... or as depraved... today as when they started. Even fewer can claim to cater to “mature” audiences, while their critics complain that everything about...
Sherlock Holmes FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the World's Greatest Private Detective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Sherlock Holmes FAQ is a one-stop guide to over a century's worth of mystery, mayhem, and most of all, deduction. Digging deep inside the manifold worlds of Sherlock Holmes, the FAQ is a dramatic and detailed digest of the Baker Street sleuth in all of his many guises, as TV and radio star, movie...
Doctor Who FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Most Famous Time Lord in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Illustrations throughout
by Norris Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Five great forces – Checkhov, Hauptmann, Ibsen, Strindberg and Zola – dramatists whose work define, embrace and transcend the trends and genres of the modern stage, meet here in this extraordinary exhibition of their sustained and sustaining power in today's theatre. Includes Zola's Therese Raquin;...
I Wanna Be a Producer
How to Make a Killing on Broadway...or Get Killed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
What does a “producer” actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit, but he does take the reader on a fascinating journey behind-the-scenes to where he himself once stood as a child, dreaming...
TV Finales FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Endings of Your Favorite TV Shows
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
TV Finales FAQ is the first book devoted exclusively to television's most memorable series finales. From Mary Richards' heartfelt goodbye to the WJM-TV newsroom in the classic finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to the puzzling conclusion of the enigmatic adventure series, Lost, to the tumultuous...
by Louis Botto
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Theatregoers' favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos, vintage archival photos, and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres. Thirty-eight of the original chapters have been expanded to...