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1) Barton Fink
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A trendy playwright is trying to write a simple movie script, but to his misfortune has a bit of writer's block.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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"A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner. Harvey Fierstein's stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting-Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day-and writing: La Cage Aux Folle, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aspiring playwright Louis Ives moves to New York, taking an environmental job with a beautiful, infatuating co-worker. Louis rents a room from an eccentric former playwright who moonlights as an 'extra man,' a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of comic adventures.
4) Sudden fear
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy lady playwright marries a worthless actor who plans to kill her.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place to develop and...
Author
Publisher
Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
459 p.
Description
Fleur Savagar es la mujer mas bella del mundo... para todos menos para ella. Despues de una vida apresurada Fleur tiene que crecer rapido, y la vida no va a ser asi de facil... Jake Koranda es un brillante dramaturgo de Nueva York y el actor mas popular de Hollywood. Dificil, talentoso y atormentado, que no tiene paciencia para las ninas de glamour internacional, ni siquiera para aquellas con hermosos cuerpos y caritas sabelotodo. Fleur es mas dificil...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 318 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A humorist trains eye on a range of subjects--from living in a series of increasingly bizarre, yet fabulous apartments in New York City to dealing with some of the most perplexing yet endearing personalities in show business to handling the finer points of putting up with, and loving, one's wacky family.
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The Honorable Miss Fenella Grantley has a secret: she's been taking drama classes and longs to be an actress. Ladies of her standing don't appear on stage, but Fenella has never been one for society's rules. She's quite excited to take on the challenge of reading the leading role in a new play until she meets the playwright. Toeing the line between infuriating and irresistible, his first impression leaves a lot to be desired. Edward Tremayne, illegitimate...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 735 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Traces the story of the playwright, Congresswoman, and first American female to be appointed to a major ambassadorial position abroad, covering such topics as her advocacy of women's equality and the deep personal losses that shaped her life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
531 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has completed such an ambitious oeuvre. Two of the plays became successful films, Fences, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis; and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Fences and The Piano Lesson won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Fences won the Tony Award for...
13) Shakespeare
Author
Description
Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.
14) Season of storms
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"In 1921 an infamous Italian poet wrote his last and greatest play, inspired by his muse and mistress. On the eve of opening night she vanished and the play was never performed. Two generations later Alessandro D'Ascanio plans to stage his grandfather's masterpiece and offers the lead to a promising English actress with the same name as the muse. The woman is drawn to the mystery of her namesake's disappearance and to the compelling Alessandro"--Back...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.
19) Untold stories
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Description
Untold Stories brings together some of the finest and funniest writing by one of England's best-known literary figures. Alan Bennett's first major collection since Writing Home contains previously unpublished work-including the title piece, a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds-along with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996 to 2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews, and comic pieces. In this highly anticipated...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Telese
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xvi, 572 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
Sheds new light on the life of the great Elizabethan playwright and poet, reassessing Shakespeare's work within the context of sixteenth-century London and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as his lasting legacy for world literature.
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