Performing Arts 100

Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eve……続きを見る

“Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations; few have communicated so intensively via performances and recordings, as often as not with integral musical s……続きを見る

Autobiografia/testamento della comica americana Gilda Radner, protagonista, assieme a comici del calibro di John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd e Bill Murray, della prima stagione del Saturday Night Live. Spo……続きを見る

Il comedian Paul Provenza e Dan Dion, il più celebre ritrattista di comici, con questo libro fotografico ci aggiornano sullo stato di salute della satira negli Stati Uniti, e non solo. Da Robin Will……続きを見る

Un comico deve avere la mimica, la faccia giusta, deve saperci fare, ma per scatenare una risata fragorosa ha bisogno di parole. Per dirla con Gene Perret: "La prima cosa che il comico chiede quando……続きを見る

Già pubblicato con il titolo "Baciami come uno sconosciuto", questa nuova edizione - corredata dalla prefazione inedita del critico Francesco Alò - esce per festeggiare la speciale ricorrenza dei 40……続きを見る

Gene Wilder è uno dei più noti attori americani. Ha legato indissolubilmente la propria fama cinematografica a quella di Mel Brooks e dal loro sodalizio Wilder ha guadagnato ben due nomination all'O……続きを見る

Tom Davis e Al Franken sono stati gli autori più importanti delle prime mitiche stagioni del Saturday Night Live, lo show satirico più famoso e irriverente del mondo. Ma mentre quasi tutto il cast d……続きを見る

HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-mon……続きを見る

**Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [their] generation,” Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious queer coming-of-age tale (The New Yorker). Bon……続きを見る

"Ms. Finley hasn't lost the power to disturb."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times No other performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade as Karen Finley has. In her inimit……続きを見る

A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experie……続きを見る

This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes 100 monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America;……続きを見る

Audition monologues for male characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Eric……続きを見る

"What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970s--that's what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift in our history."--Frank Rich, The New York Times 続きを見る

A tribute to Japan's God of Manga by his long-time American friend and translator. The pioneering genius of Japan’s “God of Comics,” Osamu Tezuka (1928–89), is examined through his life’s masterwork……続きを見る

All forward thrust and hot-damn urgency A brilliant, brawling epic. Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. . . . A great Ameri……続きを見る

"A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile... The marvel of Mr. Eno’s voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-fa……続きを見る

well-reviewed survey book now updated with current information and reviews adopted as college text at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and U of Missouri St. Louis one of the few non-academic books that take……続きを見る

“I’ve spent about 15 years plus some working with people’s stories in a series of communities in this country. I write plays from oral histories for those communities. Just finished my 30th. I’m wat……続きを見る

Audition monologues for female characters selected from recent works by American playwrights including Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz, Constance Congdon, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies, Emily Mann, Er……続きを見る

100% pure high octane Bogosian. Bogosian's latest and greatest monologue. "His wit is as venomous as ever, his material even more devastating and polished than before."ーNew York Daily News "Bogosia……続きを見る

One of the Ten Best Plays of the Year! No longer merely promising, Jon Robin Baitz is now a major playwright.’” Time Magazine "Jon Robin Baitz is the American theatre's most fascinating playwrig……続きを見る

The classic text by renowned manga expert in a beautiful new casebound edition, with a new foreword and afterword by the author. This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, ……続きを見る

Drawing from his own, specific experience, Margulies has indeed created what he calls “a window to the world” at large. The bits and pieces and detritus of our culture have been used to construct a ……続きを見る

•Originally published by Harper 0-06-9098401-5, $9.00 Previous publications SUBURBIA (sold 5,000) POUNDING NAILS INTO THE FLOOR WITH MY FOREHEAD (sold 5,000) ESSENTIAL BOGOSIAN (Sold 6,000) •Executi……続きを見る

In his brashest solo show, performer and playwright Eric Bogosian once again aims his searing social commentary at the contemporary urban and suburban scene. "Never miss Bogosian, because the sharp-……続きを見る

Drawing on his eighteen years of experience as a teaching artist for Folger Shakespeare Library, Nick Newlin offers eighteen scenes to get young actors on their feet performing Shakespeare with conf……続きを見る

* New play Joe opens 8/02 at NYC's P.S. 122 * Directing Henry IV at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Spring 2003 18 plays in the collection Performed work all over the world as well as many numerous perfo……続きを見る

This is 3 short screenplays. Two are comedies, the third is horror. All-ages material, but dark. 続きを見る