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1) Unmasked
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English
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"Andrew Lloyd Webber dominated musical theatre in the 1970s and 80s. His hit shows included Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and most recently, School of Rock. Now the composer takes stock of his achievements, the twists of fate and circumstance that brought him both success and disappointment, and the passions that inspire and sustain him. The son of a music professor and a piano teacher, Lloyd Webber reveals his artistic...
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English
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When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple...
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Oxford University Press
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English
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"This is a chronological review of both the plays and the people that brought the world of homosexuals, bisexuals, transexuals, metrosexuals, and the sexually fluid to the American stage. The plays--which take in a few foreign imports--treat strong gay content (e. g., The Boys in the Band or The Killing of sister George), or minor gay content (Season In the Sun, The Nervous Set), or even a phrase in passing (as in New Faces of 1956's joke about Rome's...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and creative team to achieve success-and its impact on our popular culture. Amidst a culture actively whitewashing, controlling, or trying to prevent their stories from being told, these artists changed the course of American entertainment. This groundbreaking group of performers and...
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University of Michigan Press
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English
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Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943–1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance...
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"The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, [so] that the true Plays of Shakespeare may prove to them in older years -- enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions." --
12) Romeo y Julieta
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Español
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In medieval Verona, two teens from feuding families fall in love and secretly marry, setting the stage for tragedy.
13) The empty space
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English
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'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'
Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which have informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his ongoing work at the International Centre for Theatre Research.
Available as an ebook for the...
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Presses De L'université De Montréal
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
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Cet ouvrage offre un récit inédit de Toronto, ville d'art et de culture traversée par la diversité linguistique. Le contact entre les langues laisse des traces, des documents et des souvenirs, notamment dans le domaine du théâtre auquel l'autrice porte ici toute son attention. En se penchant sur la dynamique matérielle du « voisinage linguistique » qui anime le devant et le derrière de la scène théâtrale, elle décrit le virage médiatique...
15) Murs
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ÉDitions L'interligne
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Au lendemain d'une épidémie qui décime presque toute la population, des survivants errent à la recherche d'un monde meilleur. Éric et Zoé, frère et sœur, ont quitté leur ville pour se rendre, lentement et dangereusement, jusqu'à Portland dans le Maine, voulant savoir si leur père a aussi survécu. À leurs trousses, Sara, imprévisible, armée de sa carabine. Et plus loin, un homme mystérieux et visionnaire qui tente de trouver sa place...
17) Flash Nude
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Publisher
ÉDitions Tnt
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Flash Nude est une pièce criante de vérité. Un grand voyage à travers l'actualité, le quotidien où l'on croise cette violence que nous côtoyons sans la saluer. Une pièce qui nous fait rire, nous fait réfléchir, mais surtout nous oblige à regarder avec les yeux ouverts et à écouter ce que l'on entend, malgré les rires stridents d'une triste réalité mise à nue. Flash Nude, là où tout le monde n'est personne et où personne n'est tout...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Alex Ko's moving autobiography will inspire tweens to dare to dream big.
Alex Ko: From Iowa to Broadway, My Billy Elliot Story follows Alex's journey from small town Iowa to becoming a famous Broadway performer in New York City. Despite all the odds he had to overcome—facing his father's tragic death from cancer, financial difficulties, countless auditions, and serious injuries, Alex triumphantly lands the starring role in the
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English
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The content of this edition include a list of the illustrations featured within the text and a preface by the editor on her work with the play. The thorough introduction discusses the tragicomedy as a genre, the writers thought to have collaborated on this play and the question of its authorship, and the significance of collaboration and censorship in the era when the play was written, as well as other notes on historical context. The editor goes
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"Brazenly entertaining. . . . It summons to the page a Broadway voice like no other."—Los Angeles Times
"[An] erudite and affably self-conscious memoir of the creative process."—Vulture
An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim in a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life—conversations that show the composer-lyricist
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