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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner. Harvey Fierstein's stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting-Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day-and writing: La Cage Aux Folle, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one...
Author
Language
English
Description
Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This authoritative and extremely readable biography is the first since the Victorian Age to pay full attention to Shakespeare's life and times and their numerous subtle connections to his works. Peter Levi emphasizes the background of Shakespeare's life: the local and national events that shaped his experiences, his family and friends, and the Elizabethan people with whom he shared his life and populated his plays. Bringing together new research and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief profile of the life and works of sixteenth-century playwright, William Shakespeare; and contains black-and-white illustrations that include a diagram of the Globe Theater.
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of William Shakespeare, covering his youth in Stratford-upon-Avon, his wife and children, his entrance into the theatrical world of London, the construction of the Globe Theater, and other topics.
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mind over matter: "David Brady has found the star for his documentary--a real psychic! Unfortunately, no-nonsense theatrical agent A.J. Fields is fiercely protective of her client--especially since that client is her mother! David is obviously a skeptic, and she isn't going to expose her mother to ridicule. David can tell that A.J.'s icy exterior is just a front, but he knows it's going to take a lot more than charm to get her on board with his plans....
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlas Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Telese
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
Biographer and novelist Ackroyd brings William Shakespeare to life in the manner of a contemporary rather than a biographer. His method is to position the playwright in the context of his world, exploring everything from Stratford's humble town to it
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point. Stalking Shakespeare...
17) The extra man
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Louis Ives (Paul Dano) heads to New York City following an embarrassing incident that forces him to leave his job. He rents a room in the apartment of Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline), a penniless, wildly eccentric playwright. Additionally, he accepts a position with an environmental magazine, where he encounters green-obsessed co-worker Mary (Katie Holmes). But it's Louis' new home life with Henry that really sparks his imagination. Developing a mentor/apprentice...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's
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