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Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322641
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Sarah Schulman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stagestruck: theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America.
Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101653833
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Tomie dePaola and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tommy is so excited. His first-grade class is putting on a play about Peter Rabbit, and he’s sure to get the starring role. But in his enthusiasm, Tommy talks too much in class, so his teacher decides that he should play Mopsy instead—and Mopsy doesn’t have any lines! Tommy is disappointed until he gets an idea. If he can’t be the star, he can still get the audience’s attention by reacting to everything Peter Rabbit does. But how will Tommy’s mother and teacher react to his performance?
Author : Lisa Fiedler
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1633621367
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Curtain Up written by Lisa Fiedler and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 12-year-old Anya is cut from her middle school soccer team, she decides to pursue her true passion, which is theater. With the help of her sister and new friend Austin, Anya puts together a kids’ summer theater troupe (The Random Farms Kids’ Theater), recruiting area kids as actors and crew members. Acting as director, Anya has to navigate the ups and downs of a showbiz life, including preparing scripts, finding a venue, and handling ticket sales, not to mention calming the actors’ insecurities and settling conflicts. It’s a lot of responsibility for a 12-year-old. Will their first show ever get off the ground? This series is closely based on the real-life experience of Anya Wallach, who began a summer theater “camp” in her parents’ basement when she was just sixteen years old. Today, Random Farms has launched the careers of many of today’s youngest stars on Broadway.
Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569479488
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lovesey is a wizard at mixing character-driven comedy with realistic-to-grim suspense. And in a writing career spanning four decades, he has created a stylish and varied body of work." —The Wall Street Journal Pop diva, Clarion Calhoun, has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face. When tainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers point to her makeup artist. Detective Peter Diamond investigates when the makeup artist is found dead, pushed from a catwalk far above the stage. As Diamond digs deeper, he uncovers rivalries among the cast and crew and is forced to confront his own mysterious and deep-seated theatre phobia to find the killer.
Author : Lucia Mauro
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 007144243X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Careers for the Stagestruck & Other Dramatic Types written by Lucia Mauro and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring Careers for You series shows career explorers how to examine the job market through the unique lens of their own interests--and find new happiness in the workplace. Vital information on each job includes: The latest data on training and education Stories of success from each field Advice on assessing job skills and marketing them well in an interview Expert advice on finding and getting the job Resources for further career exploration in each specific field
Author : David Mayer
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298406
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck Filmmaker written by David Mayer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades. Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffith’s career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. Griffith’s relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundred films he pillaged, adapted, reshaped, revitalized, preserved, and extolled. By historicizing his representations of race, ethnicity, and otherness, Mayer places Griffith within an overall template of American life in the years when film rivaled and then surpassed the theatre in popularity.
Author : Shelley Peterson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459739477
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Shelley Peterson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance and the supernatural mingle with uncontrolled dark ambition, and Abby — with the help of her extraordinary horse, Dancer — must put a stop to it before her entire community is destroyed. Champion showjumper Dancer needs a new rider for the upcoming Grand Invitational, and Abby Malone is delighted to be chosen. It’s a dream come true, and she can hardly wait to get started. However, it turns out that Abby and Dancer may have some unexpected — and dangerous — hurdles to jump. The community is staging a play in the old converted barn, and as strange events begin to occur, Abby soon discovers something about the theatre is not quite right. Is she imagining things? Or is someone out to get her?
Author : Burt Hirschfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Burt Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cynthia Thomason
Publisher : Five Star Trade
ISBN 13 : 9781410402042
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Cynthia Thomason and published by Five Star Trade. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-town librarian Gwen Barlow gets more than she expected when she inherits her Uncle Eli's lavish turn-of-the-century showboat, the Jubilee Palace. Gwen, her younger brother, Preston, and their mother, Lillian, leave their Ohio home for the Mississippi River, only to discover that the Jubilee is in serious financial straits, Eli's death by a falling theater backdrop is under suspicion, and the showboat family of actors and musicians are all suspects. Gwen's adventure begins in the bawdy river town of Hickory Bend, Missouri, where she discovers several citizens who also have reasons for wanting to see the flamboyant but irresponsible Eli Willoughby done in. Her plans to move the monstrous wedding cake with a pilot house upriver to become a profit-making venture are thwarted when the local constable declares Eli's demise a murder and orders the Jubilee to remain in Hickory Bend until the crime is solved. Gwen must take on the task of amateur sleuthing to bring the riddle of her uncle's death to a close. Her investigation leads her into a terrifying encounter, which nearly results in her own death and that of the Jubilee's delicate inginue. One by one, the suspects drop faster than an Act Three curtain until Gwen unravels the mystery of death and deception in the floating theater.Cynthia Thomason lives in Florida.
Author : Lauren R. Clay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801450389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck written by Lauren R. Clay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater's spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout France as well as in the empire's most important Atlantic colony, Saint-Domingue. Clay argues that outside Paris the expansion of theater came about through local initiative, civic engagement, and entrepreneurial investment, rather than through actions or policies undertaken by the royal government and its agents. Reconstructing the business of theatrical production, she brings to light the efforts of a wide array of investors, entrepreneurs, directors, and actors-including women and people of color-who seized the opportunities offered by commercial theater to become important agents of cultural change. Portraying a vital and increasingly consumer-oriented public sphere beyond the capital, Stagestruck overturns the long-held notion that cultural change flowed from Paris and the royal court to the provinces and colonies. This deeply researched book will appeal to historians of Europe and the Atlantic world, particularly those interested in the social and political impact of the consumer revolution and the forging of national and imperial cultural networks. In addition to theater and literary scholars, it will attract the attention of historians and sociologists who study business, labor history, and the emergence of the modern French state.
Author : Suzy McKee Charnas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892391391
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Stagestruck Vampires written by Suzy McKee Charnas and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes of transgression, eroticism, and violence thread through this retrospective collection of short stories and essays. A psychotherapist falls under the spell of her vampire patient in "Unicorn Tapestry" and in "Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast," an evil maestro finds redemption in his lovely pupil, and additional essays "Art Is Long" and "The Stagestruck Vampire" offer autobiographical reflections on the art of writing. Combining lush prose with a biting wit, this terrifying collection will appeal to fans of fantasy, romance, horror, and character-driven suspense.
Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473568544
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book People in Trouble written by Sarah Schulman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago' Olivia Laing First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. The perfect novel to read after bingeing It's A Sin. It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away. It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She's having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who works part-time in a movie theater. At one of many funerals during an unbearably hot summer, Molly becomes involved with a guerrilla activist group fighting for people with AIDS. But Kate is more cautious, and Peter is bewildered by the changes he's seeing in his city and, most crucially, in his wife. Soon the trio learn how tragedy warps even the closest relationships, and that anger - and its absence - can make the difference between life and death. 'Strong, nervy and challenging' New York Times
Author : Cindy Ward
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698114353
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Cookie's Week written by Cindy Ward and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-06-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists! "This is a perfect choice for very young children, and extra-large print makes it even more accessible." —Publisher's Weekly One of Tomie's most popular young picture books, this charming story about Cookie the cat makes a perfect read along. With its bright watercolor illustrations and one sentence of text per page, toddlers will love following Cookie through the days of the week—and seeing all the trouble he causes around the house!
Author : Shelley Peterson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459739507
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Sundancer written by Shelley Peterson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubled girl and a damaged horse find each other, and against all odds — mistaken identity, abandonment, corruption, and fraud — make an unbeatable team. His name is Sundancer, and from the moment he arrives at Saddle Creek Farm, Bird is fascinated by him. The horse is suspicious and guarded, touchy, and even cruel. Bird’s Aunt Hannah calls him “unrideable,” and Bird has to admit that Sundancer might be trouble. But Bird, whose mother left her to be raised by her aunt halfway across the country, is a bit of trouble herself. How else would you describe a girl who hasn’t spoken since she was six, and hears things no one else can hear — like the thoughts of the animals she befriends? Sundancer is a wounded horse with a story he’s not ready to share. Bird starts to feel like, maybe, they aren’t so different, and maybe she needs him as much as he needs her. Will she be able to reach him before it’s too late?
Author : Shelley Peterson
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841772
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Dancer written by Shelley Peterson and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary James (`Mousie') is sixteen when she wins The Fuller Trophy jumping with her horse Dancer at the Royal Winter Fair. Her triumph is rewarded with an invitation to perform in England for Queen Elizabeth, but she has also attracted the unwanted attention of the evil Samuel Owens who plots to acquire Dancer for his niece, Sara. Thwarted in his initial attempt to purchase the horse, Owens has his hired man, Chad Smith, try to steal it. Mousie has a dream in which a beautiful blond horsewoman warns her of impending danger. She wakes to discover Chad Smith, syringe in hand, in Dancer's stall. Chad Smith is killed in the ensuing scuffle and his employer comes under suspicion. Dancer is flown to Highgrove, the country home of Prince Charles, and Mousie arrives with her mother Christine at `Clusters' -- an English manor, once the home of Arabella, the second wife of the Duke of Dewbury, now both long dead. Mousie finds an antique lady's hunting whip which she feels certain must have belonged to Arabella, and later discovers a portrait of her riding side-saddle. It is the same woman who appeared in Mousie's dreams.
Author : Charlotte Canning
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729592X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Most American Thing in America written by Charlotte Canning and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens’ ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK), lectures (“Civic Revivalist” Charles Zueblin speaking on “Militancy and Morals”), elocutionary readers (Lucille Adams reading from Little Lord Fauntleroy), dramas (the Ben Greet Players’ cleaned-up version of She Stoops to Conquer), orations (William Jennings Bryan speaking about the dangers of greed), and special programs for children (parades and mock weddings). Theatre historians have largely ignored Circuit Chautauquas since they did not meet the conventional conditions of theatrical performance: they were not urban; they produced no innovative performance techniques, stage material, design effects, or dramatic literature. In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Charlotte Canning establishes an analytical framework to reveal the Circuit Chautauquas as unique performances that both created and unified small-town America. One of the last strongholds of the American traditions of rhetoric and oratory, the Circuits created complex intersections of community, American democracy, and performance. Canning does not celebrate the Circuit Chautauquas wholeheartedly, nor does she describe them with the same cynicism offered by Sinclair Lewis. She acknowledges their goals of community support, informed public thinking, and popular education but also focuses on the reactionary and regressive ideals they sometimes embraced. In the true interdisciplinary spirit of Circuit Chautauquas, she reveals the Circuit platforms as places where Americans performed what it meant to be American.
Author : Simon Gray
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573619946
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Stage Struck written by Simon Gray and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
