Theatrical, Writing and Performing Arts Books

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1. I Am Curious Yellow

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Applause Books. 8.5x11 inches. 256 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314053)

2. Small Change

Small Change, shot in the French Provinces, is a story about children. more info
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A Film Novel by Francois Truffaut. Applause Books. With Softcover. 4.2x7.2 inches. 191 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314052)

3. Oh, Calcutta!

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Applause Books. 8.5x11 inches. 192 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314050)

4. The Day the Bronx Died

This engrossing drama by Michael Henry Brown had its world premiere in 1992. This book features the complete script of the story of two childhood friends, one black, the other... more info
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A Play by Michael Henry Brown. Applause Books. 5.2x7.7 inches. 96 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314218)

5. A Christmas Carol

Paul Sills, the master of improvisation and found of The Second City and creator of Story Theatre - and who has influenced some of theatre's most important directors, writers... more info
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Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.5x7.75 inches. 80 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314511)

6. Ghost in the Machine

The playscript to Ghost in the Machine by David Gilman begins with a common situation - that of a missing fifty dollar bill - and spins it into intriguing questions of probability,... more info
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A Play by David Gilman. Applause Books. 5.3x7.7 inches. 80 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314217)

7. Dear: A New Play

The script to one of the most tender yet devastating plays of the Drexlerian oeuvre is the musical romance Dear. It takes place in the Eisenhower Fifties, the early years... more info
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Applause Books. 5x7.7 inches. 64 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314250)

8. The Mothers

Based on actual events in Argentina 1952-1976, this play dramatizes the efforts of two sisters to locate their children and other missing relatives who have mysteriously disappeared,... more info
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Applause Books. 5.37x7.75 inches. 96 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314297)

9. The Brazilian

Two amorous actresses are out to capture the affections of a wealthy Paris producer. The wily Micheline spreads the rumor that Rafaella is being courted by a murderously jealous... more info
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Applause Books. With Softcover. 5x7 inches. 52 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314058)

10. A Critic and His Wife

Mr. Noonan is quite a skillful jokesmith. He has a fine ear for language...and a sense of timing that is pretty much faultless. - New York Times. more info
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Applause Books. 5.37x7.75 inches. 96 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314294)

11. The Custom of the Country

This brilliantly crafted stage version of Wharton's sprawling novel dissecting the New York social scene focuses on the beautiful, but predatory, Undine Spragg and the men... more info
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Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel. Applause Books. 5.2x7.7 inches. 80 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314261)

12. Senior Square - 12 Monologues and a Rap

Nothing square about this place. Dreams and fears come in every size and shape as they take their places in John-Michael Williams' arresting new play. No scenery, no elaborate... more info
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Thirteen Lives In Search of the Twelfth Grade. Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.2x7.7 inches. 88 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314068)

13. A Chekhov Concert

A tapestry of plays, stories, and letters artistically woven together to form a beautiful new work worthy of Chekhov's own heart and hand. The American artists Sharon Gans... more info
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Duets & Arias Conceived & Composed by Sharon Gans & Jordan Charney. Applause Books. 5.3x7.7 inches. 64 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314249)

14. King Lear

These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which... more info
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The Applause Shakespeare Library. Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.2x7.7 inches. 220 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314180)

15. Savages/Shakespeare Wallah

Introductions, the motion picture treatments, credits and screenplays for these two movies by James Ivory. more info
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Two Films by James Ivory. Applause Books. 5.2x8 inches. 152 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314054)

16. The Contest

A naturalistic family comedy/drama centering on a shy young adolescent, Bevvie Sue, caught in the web of her hilarious but powerful mother's fantasies of gaining fame and... more info
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A Play by Shirley Lauro. Applause Books. 5.2x7.7 inches. 112 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314329)

17. The Tutor

Pip Broughton has translated the play for The Old Vic with reverence for Brecht, an understanding of the social relationships in the play and last but not least with a fine... more info
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Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.2x7.7 inches. 72 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314083)

18. On the Open Road

Set in a landscape stripped bare by civil war, two independents forge an alliance of convenience in order to buy their way into the land of the free, the one safe haven in... more info
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New York Shakespeare Edition. Applause Books. With Softcover. 5x8 inches. 112 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314151)

19. Square One

The complete script by the Oscar-winning author of Breaking Away to the play that has been called An achingly sad, brutal, futuristic comedy that is strangely sweet as often... more info
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Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.3x8.2 inches. 80 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314116)

20. Take Her She's Yours, or Divorce Do Us Part

This new version of the long-lost three-act A qui ma femme?, one of Feydeau's earliest comedies, is a slice of marital life served up with the delicious incongruities and... more info
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Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.2x7.7 inches. 104 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314444)

21. I Am a Woman

I Am A Woman is a journey, not through time so much as through realms of consciousness expressed in the haunting voices of some of literature's most powerful women. Together,... more info
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The Journey of One Woman and Many Women. Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.3x7.7 inches. 64 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314103)

22. The Bug

Combine Kafka's eerie vision with a soulless world run by computers and the result is this comic nightmare of a play. Strand's play - revolving around a bug in the system... more info
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Applause Books. With Softcover. 8.5x11 inches. 80 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314487)

23. Everything I Really Need to Know I Learned from Television

Hey you! Are you browsing bookstores again, feeling guilty because you'd rather be home watching The Jetsons? Well, say goodbye to guilt, and say goodbye to books! Yes, it's... more info
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Paperback Book. Applause Books. 5x8 inches. 80 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314387)

24. Antony & Cleopatra

These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which... more info
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The Applause Shakespeare Library. Applause Books. With Softcover. 5.3x7.7 inches. 280 pages. Published by Applause Books. (HL.00314339)