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The Director's Voice
Theatre Communications Group 2012; US$ 18.95Foremost stage directors describe their working process: JoAnne Akalaitis, Arvin Brown, René Buch, Martha Clarke, Gordon Davidson, Robert Falls, Zelda Fichandler, Richard Foreman, Adrian Hall, John Hirsch, Mark Lamos, Marshall W. Mason, Des McAnuff, Gregory Mosher, Harold S. Prince, Lloyd Richards, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Douglas Turner Ward,... more...
The Presence of the Actor
Theatre Communications Group 2012; US$ 14.95Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time. more...
Pioneer Performances
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 64.99The Wild West was popular with American audiences long before the appearance of the Hollywood western. From 1829 to 1881, playgoers throughout the nation applauded frontier dramas that celebrated conventional American values like rugged individualism and the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Yet, as Pioneer Performances shows, a more subversive cultural... more...
The Marx Brothers
Oldcastle Books 2012; US$ 8.74Wise-cracking Groucho Marx with his trademark cigar and painted on black moustache. Blonde, curly-wigged, mute Harpo, beeping his blub horn and chasing pretty girls. Rubber-faced Chico, twisting phrases into hysterical malapropisms. And handsome straight-man Zeppo Marx. Who can forget their antics in such classic comedy films as The Cocoanuts (1929),... more...
Colleen Moore
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was one of the most popular and beloved stars of the American silent screen. Remembered primarily as a comedienne in such films as Ella Cinders (1926) and Orchids and Ermine (1927), Moore's career was also filled with dramatic roles that often reflected societal trends. A trailblazing performer, her legacy was somewhat... more...
Joan Crawford
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 15.00The major biography of the star who, according to the New York Times , ?personified the dreams and disappointments of millions of American women? more...
All His Jazz
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 21.00" All His Jazz practically dances off the pages." Harper's Bazaar more...
Christian Bale
BenBella Books, Inc. 2012; US$ 15.95The darkest Batman is unmasked. During the London press junket for The Dark Knight in the summer of 2008, Christian Bale was infamously accused of assaulting his mother and sister at the five-star Dorchester Hotel. Six months later, a recording of Bale?s rant on the set of Terminator Salvation was leaked, and the star?s anger began to define... more...
Ask Me Again Tomorrow
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableFrom her fame as the Oscar-winning actress who uttered the famous line in Moonstruck , "I know who I am," to her lauded role as Mrs. Madrigal, the landlord of indeterminate gender in Tales of the City , to being the cousin of Michael Dukakis, presidential candidate, Olympia Dukakis has captured the imagination of a broad audience. Known for her... more...
Angelina Jolie
John Blake 2009; US$ 9.99Academy Award?winning actress, former fashion model and Hollywood party girl, and current Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency, Angelina Jolie is constantly in the media spotlight. Unlike many Hollywood stars who do their best to avoid the press, her openness about her complicated and often outlandish life has endeared her to fans worldwide.... more...









