Ken Ludwig's Midsummer/Jersey

Ken Ludwig's Midsummer/Jersey
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Samuel French Trade
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573700767

An adaptation of "A Midsummer's Night Dream."

Ken Ludwig's The Gods of Comedy

Ken Ludwig's The Gods of Comedy
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2019
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573708401

Daphne and Ralph are young classics professors who have just made a discovery thats sure to turn them into academic superstars. But something goes disastrously wrong, and Daphne cries out in a panic, 'Save me, gods of ancient Greece!'…and the gods actually appear! The Ivy League will never be the same as a pair of screwball deities encounters the carnal complexity of college coeds, campus capers, and conspicuous consumption.

Dear Jack, Dear Louise

Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2020-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780573708800

U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig, a military doctor stationed in Oregon, begins writing to Louise Rabiner, an aspiring actress and dancer in New York City, hoping to meet her someday if the war will allow. But as the war continues, it threatens to end their relationship before it even starts. Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Lend Me a Tenor) tells the joyous, heartwarming story of his parents' courtship during World War II and the results are anything but expected. "Ludwig's play, though about a particular moment in his personal history as well as our collective history, also resonates today. Dear Jack, Dear Louise is a moving, funny, and heartbreaking reminder of what we should strive to become, individually and as a country." - BroadwayWorld "Moving and cinematic... The play, based on the correspondence of Ludwig's parents-to-be, crackles with humor and real feeling." - DC Theatre Scene "An intimate play with tremendous breadth... Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise plumbs the depths of human courage, commitment, and connection when the world and your heart are at stake." - DC Metro Theater Arts "Strikes the touchstones of the online dating age with uncanny precision." - The Washington Post

School for Trophy Wives

School for Trophy Wives
Author: Freyda Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2015
Genre: Guardian and ward
ISBN: 9780573704284

School for Trophy Wives is loosely based on Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes. It is set in present day Hollywood, with all the accompanying glitz, glamour, and garishness we have come to know and spoof in Tinseltown. In this version, Arnolphe is Arnie, a Hollywood producer who has finally made it big after years of clawing his way to the top. He now wants to settle down with a wife and kids. He is MUCH older than his protégée Agnes, whom he found on a farm when she was 4, "adopted" as his ward, and raised, until he realizes, at her graduation, that she would be a perfect wife for him. Having made fun of his colleagues and all their trophy wives over the years, he must take special care that no whiff of scandal will ever hit him from the cover of People Magazine or the Hollywood Reporter, and that his wife will never adhere to the "trophy standards" his friends have had to deal with. This is where Molière comes in, but with some 21st century flair.

Lend Me a Tenor

Lend Me a Tenor
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1989
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573691218

Set in 1930, a world-renowned Italian tenor arrives to perform Othello but is too indisposed to go on.

A Comedy of Tenors

A Comedy of Tenors
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2016
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780573704871

One hotel suite, four tenors, two wives, three girlfriends, and a soccer stadium filled with screaming fans. What could possibly go wrong? It's 1930s Paris and the stage is set for the concert of the century--as long as producer Henry Saunders can keep Italian superstar Tito Merelli and his hot-blooded wife Maira from causing runaway chaos. Prepare for an uproarious ride, full of mistaken identities, bedroom hijinks, and madcap delight. --

Ken Matsubara: Utsusemi

Ken Matsubara: Utsusemi
Author:
Publisher: Mw Editions
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781735762951

This monograph on the work of Japanese multimedia artist Ken Matsubara contains his most significant works of the past 10 years. Essay by curator Bettina Pelz.

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 0307951499

Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.

The Amateurs

The Amateurs
Author: Jordan Harrison
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573707847

An intrepid troupe of pageant players races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death. The arrival of a mysterious outsider sends Hollis, the leading lady, in search of answers that can only be found off-script... and soon the 14th century plague begins to look like another, more recent one. This wildly inventive and funny new work examines the evolution of human creativity in a dark age: when does a crisis destroy us, and when does it open new frontiers?

Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway

Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway
Author: Ken Ludwig
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573699344

"A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend me a tenor, Moon over Buffalo) to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, The fox on the fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp which begins as Quail Valley Country Club prepares to take on arch rival Crouching Squirrel in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. With a sizable wager at stake, the contest plays out amidst three love affairs, a disappearing diamond, objectionable sweaters and an exploding vase. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with-- golf"--P. [4] of cover.