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Series
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
Author
Language
English
Description
One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Johnny Vermillion's theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. Johnny also arranges a special attraction for each town. While his actors bustle in and out of costumes, on and off the stage in many roles, one plays the villain in the bank. Then the actors take their curtain calls and railroad away. Who? Us? Rob a bank? But you saw all of us on stage. When could...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
442 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Celia and Anya, friends who use tattoo magic to send divine messages, must rely on one another to survive when they discover the fake deity they serve is very real--and very angry.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The Long High Noon: "Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. With the story of their long-term hatred well known throughout the country, Frank and Randy are approached--separately, of course--with a proposition. Why not publicize their next duel and sell tickets to the event? Winner take all,...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putman's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Under the bright lights of Broadway, one new musical pushes the boundaries of love, legacy, and art. Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Eleanor O'Hanlon always felt different. In love with musical theater from a young age, she memorized every show album she could get her hands on. So when she discovers an open call for one of her favorite productions, she leaves behind everything she knows to run off to New York City and audition. Raw and untrained,...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
247 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy rancher asks Oliver Colfax to deal with some cattle rustlers, he declines, until he learns that a production of Titus Andronicus is playing in nearby Pullman, Colorado. Colfax has a change of heart. He has always wanted to see someone play Titus. It may be the hardest case he's ever taken on.
9) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
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Multiple
Description
Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...