Author:
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: musical, theater, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 155783217X
ISBN-13: 9781557832177

This revised and expanded edition of Kislan’s acclaimed study of America’s musical theater includes a new section on "Recent Musical Theater: Issues and Problems." "The ancient union of drama and song, known as musical theater, comes in many forms - vaudeville, burlesque, comic opera, minstrels, etc. The author reviews these and other highlights of American musicals ... with a fascinating background on the elements that contribute to the success of a Showboat." - King Features * "Worth study by anyone who still thinks that the musical is a collection of songs." - The Stage

Authors:Georges Feydeau, Norman R. Shapiro,
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: introduction, norman, shapiro, amp, translated, first, last, feydeau
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1557834636
ISBN-13: 9781557834638

Feydeau was the greatest of a great age of French farceurs and the first to enter the modern repertory. Of the more than 40 plays Feydeau wrote, over a third were one-acts. In this volume, Shapiro has selected and translated eight of these one-act plays, among them Feydeau’s first and last works. Includes: Ladies’ Man * Wooed and Viewed * Romance in A Flat * Fit to Be Tried, or, Stepbrothers in Crime * Mixed Doubles * The Boor Hug * Caught with His Trance Down * Tooth and Consequences, or, Hortense Said: "No Skin Off My Ass!"

Author: Glenn Young
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: plays, short, american
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1557836965
ISBN-13: 9781557836960

Applause is proud to continue to publish the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, and David Mamet. This new volume includes John Guare’s Woman at a Threshold, Beckoning; John Ford Noonan’s The Raunchy Dame in the Chinese Raincoat; Tina Howe’s Water Music; and Joe Pintauro’s Ten-Dollar Dr

Author: William Goldman
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: applause, books, essays, screenplays, goldman, four, william
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 155783265X
ISBN-13: 9781557832658

Contents: Marathon Man * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid * The Princess Bride * Misery.

Author: Stella Adler
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: acting, art
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1557833737
ISBN-13: 9781557833730

Stella Adler was one of the 20th CenturyÕs greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Over her long career, both in New York and Hollywood, she offered her vast acting knowledge to generations of actors, including Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty, and Robert De Niro. The great voice finally ended in the early Nineties, but her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly caught and encapsulated by Howard Kissel in the twenty-two lessons in this book. Hardcover.

Author: Peter Parnell
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: play, qed
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1557835926
ISBN-13: 9781557835925

"QED is a seductive mix of science, human affections, moral courage and comic eccentricity... not to be missed." - John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE "...The play itself is a kind of proof, dramatically illustrating how a man who happens to be a genius elegantly and movingly works through the human problem of how to face the end of his life." - Nancy Franklin, THE NEW YORKER With a moving and powerful introduction

Author: Shirley Lauro
Publisher: Applause Books
Keywords: applause, books, lauro, shirley, play, contest
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1557833680
ISBN-13: 9781557833686

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 fortune through complusive contest entries, her beloved immigrant father’s broken dreams and ambitions, and her rich judgmental relatives. Set in a small midwestern city in the middle of World War II, the story sweeps through a year in this American Jewish family’s life, as Bevvie Sue struggles to disentangle herself and emerge as her own person: a young woman, eager for life, on her way to finding her own p