The Annenbergs

The Annenbergs
Author: John E. Cooney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Clandestine on the Morning Line

Clandestine on the Morning Line
Author: Josh Greenfeld
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1961
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822202141

THE STORY: As described the NY Post: CLANDESTINE is a play with a strongly written central character, a middle-aged, thrice-married woman who operates a cheap lunchroom with a bachelor brother. While she is reuniting a pregnant young woman with th

Borak

Borak
Author: Robert D. Hock
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1961
Genre: Fathers and sons
ISBN: 9780822201342

THE STORY: As described by Howard Taubman: BORAK functions on two levels. On the surface Mr. Hock is telling a Civil War story in which the hard, bitter duty of an officer must override his love for his son. But the play is also a religious parabl

A Country Scandal (Platonov)

A Country Scandal (Platonov)
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-09-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0486811166

Set in a small Russian town during the 1870s, this 20-character farce centers on a schoolteacher's romantic entanglements. Chekhov's first play holds the key to many themes revisited in his later dramas.

Dinny and the Witches

Dinny and the Witches
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 92
Release: 1960
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822203117

THE STORY: This play is a fairy-tale, notes William Gibson in his notes to the New York production, and all fairy-tales are dreams in which the hero goes forth on a pilgrimage through life; this one is no exception. Dinny is just the average Ame