Wallace, Nancy K.
Summary: Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for an adaptation of a fairy tale in which Snow White escapes the huntsman she is saved by seven dorks. All is well until she uses social media to try to find her prince!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 812.6 WALSummary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITSummary: An examination of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her children", and the political philosophies the play represents. Preparing for The Public Theater's 2006 production of Brecht's anti-war play, Meryl Streep allows a camera crew to document her rehearsal process and interest in the work. Moreover, the life and times of Brecht himself are followed, most notably the playwrites' escape from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THEAliki.
Summary: Tells the story of the well-known playwright, William Shakespeare, and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OTLithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITShakespeare, William.
Summary: The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome bringing Tamora, Queen of the Goths as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge, and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism. This macabre, often brilliant tragedy comes from the earliest stage of Shakespeare's dramatic career....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAContents: The time of the cuckoo / by Arthur Laurents -- Bernardine / by Mary Chase -- Dial "M" for murder / by Frederick Knott -- The climate of Eden / by Moss Hart -- The love of four colonels / by Peter Ustinov -- The crucible / by Arthur Miller -- The emperor's clothes / by George Tabori -- Picnic / by William Inge -- Wonderful town / book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; music by Leonard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1953
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Indians / Arthur Kopit -- Butterflies are free / Leonard Gershe -- Last of the red hot lovers / Neil Simon -- Child's play / Robert Marasco -- Effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds / Paul Zindel -- Applause / Betty Comden -- Company / George Furth and Stephen Sondheim -- The White House murder case / Jules Feiffer -- What the butler saw / Joe Orton -- The serpent: a ceremony /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESBartlett, Bruce R.
Summary: A lucid, practical, and concise guide for citizens who want to cut through the lies in this era of "fake news" and "alternative facts." As recent national events have proven, the floodgates have opened and the political terrain is shifting rapidly with the dangerous concept of "alternative facts" supplanting actual facts at the highest levels of our government and in new media sources that are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 BARContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Deburau / by Sacha Guitry -- First year / by Frank Craven -- Enter Madame / by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne -- Green goddess / by William Archer -- Liliom / by Frank Molnar -- Mary Rose / by J.M. Barrie -- Nice people / by Rachel Crothers -- Bad man / by Porter Emerson Browne -- Emperor Jones / by Eugene G. O'Neill -- Skin game / by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard, & Co. 1921
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Little theater tournament -- Show-off / by George Kelly -- Hell-bent fer heaven / by Hatcher Hughes -- Swan / by Ferencz Molnar ; tr. by M.P. Baker -- Outward bound / by Sutton Vane -- Goose hangs high / by Lewis Beach -- Beggar on horseback / by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- Changelings / by Lee Wilson Dodd -- Sun-up / by Lula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard & Co. 1924
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Season in San Francisco -- Season in Southern California -- Street scene / by Elmer Rice -- Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff -- Wings over Europe / Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne -- Holiday / by Philip Barry -- Front page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Let us be gay / by Rachel Crothers -- Machinal / by Sophie Treadwell --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1929
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESNesseth, Nina
Summary: "Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why. In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 NESGaines, Caseen
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.089 GAIMantle, Burns
Contents: Introduction -- Season in review -- Abraham Lincoln / John Drinkwater -- Beyond the horizon / Eugene O'Neill -- Famous Mrs. Fair / James Forbes -- Declassee / Zoe Akins -- Jane Clegg / St. John Ervine -- Jest / Sem Benelli (American adaptation by Edward Sheldon) -- Wedding bells / Salisbury Field -- Mamma's affair / Rachel Barton Butler -- Adam and Eva / Guy Bolton and George Middleton --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard & Co. 1920
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Road / Jim Cartwright -- The cocktail hour / A.R. Gurney -- Eastern standard / Richard Greenberg -- Emerald city / David Williamson --The Heidi chronicles / Wendy Wasserstein -- Other people's money / Jerry Sterner -- Shirley Valentine / Willy Russell -- Gus and Al / Albert Innaurato -- Lend me a tenor / Ken Ludwig -- Aristocrats / Brian Friel -- Special citation of choreography: Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Boy gets girl / Rebecca Gilman -- The invention of love / Tom Stoppard -- King Hedley II / August Wilson -- Lobby Hero / Kenneth Lonergan -- Mnemonic / Complicite -- Nocturne / Adam Rapp -- The play about the baby / Edward Albee -- The producers / Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan -- Proof / David Auburn -- Urinetown / Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Limelight Editions 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESContents: Steel magnolias / by Robert Harling -- The Mahabharata / by Jean-Claude Carrière ; adapted into English by Peter Brook -- Into the woods / book by James Lapine ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim -- Real estate / by Louise Page -- A walk in the woods / by Lee Blessing -- Wenceslas Square / by Larry Shue -- M. Butterfly / by David Henry Hwang -- Joe Turner's come and gone / by August Wilson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESSummary: "In Japanese, tora means "tiger." In December of 1941, "tiger, tiger, tiger" was the code phrase that unleashed one of history's most devastating surprise attacks. But the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor also awakened the "sleeping giant" of American military might, and in the process, sealed Japan's fate"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014