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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages cm
Description
"In this poignant and deeply intimate memoir, Sarah Ruhl chronicles her experience with Bell's palsy after giving birth to twins. At night, I dreamed that I could smile. The smile felt effortless in my dreams, the way it did in my childhood. Happily married and in the flush of hard-earned professional success, with her first play opening on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk pregnancy and given birth to twins when she discovers the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Since 1939, Horton Foote, "the Chekhov of the small town," has chronicled with compassion and acuity the experience of American life both intimate and universal. His adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and his original screen play Tender Mercies earned him Academy Awards. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama, and the President's...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1978, Oakley Hall III, the brilliant and charismatic founder of the Lexington Conservatory Theater, had it all. This is the harrowing tale of Hall's fall from grace, a bittersweet look at what was recaptured and a heartbreaking reminder of what was lost forever.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
xv, 432 pages. 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Sam Shepard: A Life details his lifelong bouts of insecurity and anxiety, and delves deeply into his relationship with his alcoholic father and his own battle with the bottle. Also examined for the first time in-depth are Shepard?s tumultuous relationship with Lange, and his decades?long adherence to the teachings of Russian spiritualist G. I. Gurdjieff."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 244 pages : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs ; 22 cm
Description
This book invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V's lifelong journals that...
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
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
439 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"A revelatory and provocative biography of one of the most controversial women of the twentieth century, by one of America's most renowned historians. Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
Quiara Alegría Hudes era la niña de ojos penetrantes que permanecía resguardada en las escaleras de la casa de su abuela en el norte de Filadelfia mientras observaba a su familia bailar en su estrecha cocina. Le maravillaban sus tías, tíos y primos, pero vivía aterrada por los secretos de la familia y las historias ocultas del barrio--todo esto mientras intentaba encontrar su propia voz entre el mar de lenguajes que la rodeaban, tanto en el...
15) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman,...
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