Going to the Theater

Going to the Theater
Author: Florence Ducatteau
Publisher: Want to Know
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781605372532

Offers information about theater, including the different cultural expressions of theater, what the director's job is, and why dress rehearsal is so important.

How Does the Show Go On

How Does the Show Go On
Author: Thomas Schumacher
Publisher: Disney Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781423120308

An introduction to the theater that includes everything from backstage, cast, behind the scenes information, the building, to the actual productions.

Cambodian Rock Band

Cambodian Rock Band
Author: Lauren Yee
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2019
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573707243

Cambodian Rock Band is not yet available to license. By clicking the Request License button, you can sign up to be notified when this title becomes available. In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter, Neary. Jumping back and forth in time, thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter are forced to face the music of the past. From playwright Lauren Yee (King of the Yees, The Great Leap) comes a story filled with horror, humor, pathos, and songs by the best unknown rock band in Cambodia!

The Foreigner

The Foreigner
Author: Larry Shue
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1985
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822204183

THE STORY: The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by Froggy LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time Froggy has brought along a friend, a pathologically s

The Band's Visit

The Band's Visit
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540032744

(Vocal Selections). Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, The Band's Visit is a musical adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name. This vocal selections folio features 11 vocal line arrangements with piano accompaniment composed by David Yazbek: Answer Me * The Beat of Your Heart * Haled's Song About Love * It Is What It Is * Itzik's Lullaby * Omar Sharif * Papi Hears the Ocean * Something Different * Soraya * Waiting * Welcome to Nowhere.

London Theatres (New Edition)

London Theatres (New Edition)
Author: Michael Coveney
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0711252637

This fully revised and updated edition of the hugely successful London Theatres features ten additional theatres, including the Victoria Palace Theatre, the Sondheim Theatre, the Bridge Theatre and the Noël Coward Theatre. London is the undisputed theatre capital of the world. From world-famous musicals to West End shows, from cutting-edge plays to Shakespeare in its original staging, from outdoor performance to intimate fringe theatre, the range and quality are unsurpassed. Leading drama critic Michael Coveney invites you on a tour of more than 50 theatres that make the London stage what it is. With stories of the architecture, the people and the productions which have defined each one, alongside sumptuous photographs by Peter Dazeley of the auditoriums, public and backstage areas, this illustrated overview of London's theatres is a book like no other. A must for fans of the stage! Praise for the first edition: ‘This coffee table whopper ... dazzles’ Spectator ‘London Theatres ... will surely feature on any theatre buff's present list’ Sightlines

Rifka Takes a Bow

Rifka Takes a Bow
Author: Betty Rosenberg Perlov
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1512492906

Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! Rifka's parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York, but one day Rifka finds herself center stage in a special role! A slice of immigrant life on New York's Second Avenue, this is a unique book about a vanished time and a place – the Yiddish theater in the early 20th century―made real through the telling of the true life story of the 96-year-old author as a little girl.

The Stuff of Spectatorship

The Stuff of Spectatorship
Author: Caetlin Benson-Allott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520971825

Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in, the snacks you ate, the people around you, maybe the beer or joint you consumed to help you unwind—all this stuff shaped your experience of media and its influence on you. The material culture around film and television changes how we make sense of their content, not to mention the very concepts of the mediums. Focusing on material cultures of film and television reception, The Stuff of Spectatorship argues that the things we share space with and consume as we consume television and film influence the meaning we gather from them. This book examines the roles that six different material cultures have played in film and television culture since the 1970s—including video marketing, branded merchandise, drugs and alcohol, and even gun violence—and shows how objects considered peripheral to film and television culture are in fact central to its past and future.

The Chinese Lady

The Chinese Lady
Author: Lloyd Suh
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822239906

Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0307807444

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."