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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a clutch of duck eggs in a theater courtyard hatch during a performance, the community rallies to protect the ducklings." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the famous street in New York City, detailing the development of the theater district and the shows and stars that have become Broadway legends.
46) Hooray Parade
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Using the window as her stage, Gramma uses the things in her basket to create a wonderful parade of shadow animals."--
Author
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
Description
The Taming of the Shrew (1592) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. Written between 1590 and 1592, The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest works. Frequently critiqued by scholars for its demeaning portrayal of Katherina and for Petruchio's violence, the play has also been considered as an ironic treatment of the inequality experienced by women in marriage. The Taming of the Shrew has served as source material for countless film and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Kate the Chemist is chosen to be the assistant director of the school play Dragons vs. Unicorns and has to use her science knowledge to find out who is trying to sabotage the show" -- Provided by publisher.
49) Dressing the naked hand: the world's greatest guide to making, staging, and performing with puppets
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
156 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 videodisc (DVD : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"This ultimate puppetry guide includes: how to make puppets from stuffed animals, how to guild your own hand puppet, how to create advanced Muppet-like puppets using master techniques, how to build simple, intermediate, and advanced puppet stages, how to bring your puppet to life with convincing body language, voices, diction, and emotions" -- Front cover flap.
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 8
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.
53) Anything goes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change. August Beausoleil and his colleague Charles Pomerantz have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the...
54) Forgiven
Author
Series
Firstborn volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Christian Kids Theater group is devastated by a tragedy greater than any of them could've imagined. Now their director, Katy Hart, must find a way to walk the kids through their grief and give them a reason to believe again. But will hatred and revenge have the final word? Dayne Matthews is at the top of the Hollywood list, working on what could be his best movie yet. Still, he is empty and unfocused, aching for real love and the family he'll...
55) Burlesque
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to make...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (104 p.) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When someone tries to sabotage the school play, Kyle, an actor, and his friend Mindy, the stage manager, work together to investigate, even though each suspects the other.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment that costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
E-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
In 1958, former circus aerialist Dudley Riggs opened a Minneapolis coffeehouse with a stage for performers and created an American comedic institution. What started as a way to draw customers on slow nights became the Brave New Workshop, a comedy theater sinking its satirical talons deep into the culture of Minneapolis–St. Paul for over half a century. This theater helped launch the careers of many talented performers, including satirist-turned-senator...
Author
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Book-loving Kenny the rabbit has few friends in his farming community, so when one, bookstore owner George, is sent to kill another, gentle dragon Grahame, Kenny must find a way to prevent their battle while satisfying the dragon-crazed townspeople.