Best of
Theatre

1992

Millennium Approaches


Tony Kushner - 1992
    The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.

Falsettos


William Finn - 1992
    Includes: 4 Jews in a Room Bitching * I'm Breaking Down * Marriage Proposal * March of the Falsettos * Making a Home * The Games I Play * I Never Wanted to Love You * Father to Son * The Baseball Game * A Day in Falsettoland * Everyone Hates His Parents * What More Can I Say? * Something Bad Is Happening * Holding to the Ground * Unlikely Lovers * You Gotta Die Sometime * What Would I Do.

The Secret Garden


Marsha Norman - 1992
    With her Tony-award winning book and lyrics, Norman recreates the classic form of the traditional American musical.

Newsies: Music from the Broadway Musical


Alan Menken - 1992
    13 piano/vocal selections from the 2012 Tony-winning musical featuring music by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman. Songs include: The Bottom Line * I Never Planned on You/Don't Come A-Knocking * King of New York * Once and for All * Santa Fe * Seize the Day * Something to Believe In * That's Rich * Watch What Happens * The World Will Know * and more, with a special section of full-color photos and background information from the production.

13 by Shanley


John Patrick Shanley - 1992
    Includes: "The Big Funk " "Savage in Limbo " "Danny & The Deep Blue Sea " "Welcome to the Moon " "The Red Coat " "Down & Out " "Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night " "Out West " "A Lonely Impulse of Delight " "Women of Manhattan " "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow " "Italian-American Reconciliation " and "Beggars in the House of Plenty." Also includes an introduction by the author.

Newsies


Alan Menken - 1992
    Matching folio to the exciting Disney musical featuring 8 songs. Also includes lovely full-color photos from the movie. Original songs by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman.

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me


Frank McGuinness - 1992
    As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive?Frank McGuinness explores the daily crisis endured by hostages whose strength comes from communication, both subtle and mundane, from humour, wit and faith.Someone Who'll Watch Over Me premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1992 before transferring to the West End. On Broadway, it was awarded the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play and nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1993.

The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology


Eugenio Barba - 1992
    Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice


Patsy Rodenburg - 1992
    Rodenburg has trained thousands of actors, singers, media personalities, lawyers, politicians, business people, teachers and students in the art of using their voice fully and expressively without fear. She has taught them how to breathe, how to support their breath, how to stretch their voice to meet any vocal effort and how to have total confidence in whatever they say--the right to speak.

Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly: The Essays and Opinions of Charles Ludlam


Charles Ludlam - 1992
    Seen by some as simply a gifted buffoon, Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly exposes Ludlam as a clear-eyed, hard-headed thinker and master craftsman. His luminous essays (never widely available in his lifetime) and provocative opinions (drawn from interviews, unpublished papers and notebooks) reveal a complex mind comprehensively focused on theatrical invention.Charles Ludlam: Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York’s acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company. During his twenty years with the Ridiculous, Ludlam won Obie and Drama Desk awards as well as playwriting fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Ford foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. His more than thirty plays are among the most thought-provoking entertainments in the modern repertoire and continue to be widely performed throughout the world.

The Collected Plays, Vol. 3


Neil Simon - 1992
    The third installment of the collected plays of Neil Simon.

Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text


Kristin Linklater - 1992
    Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.

An Actor Adrift


Lorna Marshall - 1992
    Since then he has become a leading member and trainer in the company.In this book, part personal story and part a workbook for actors and directors wishing to understand and employ Peter Brook's techniques, Oida describes the formation and early training of Brook's company and provides an account of the first decade of work.It provides a fascinating account of the company's first public performance - The Conference of the Birds in Iran, of the extraordinary explorative journey that followed through Africa, of work in America and of the return to work in France. While he relates productions of The Ik, The Conference of the Birds, The Mahabharata, Orghast and Timon of Athens, he interweaves his vivid personal experience as an actor in whom Eastern and Western culture and practices come together.

Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater


Richard Foreman - 1992
    Foreword by Peter Sellars

Rodgers Hammerstein


Ethan Mordden - 1992
    The book covers the team's complete works, including Oklahoma, South Pacific and The Sound of Music.

Elisabeth Das Musical (Libretto)


Michael Kunze - 1992
    The first edition (Vienna 1992).

Simple Men and Trust Pa


Hal Hartley - 1992
    The pair confront their expectations of themselves and their attitudes towards women. It was premiered as part of the Official Competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

Alexander Plays


Adrienne Kennedy - 1992
    Includes She Talks to Beethoven, The Ohio State Murders, The Film Club (a monologue), and The Dramatic Circle. A foreword is the only scholarly apparatus. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables


Sylvia Ashby - 1992
    Stern Marilla and her warm-hearted brother Matthew hoped to adopt a boy to work on their farm. But the orphanage sends young, befreckled Anne by mistake, and their lives will never be the same. Her warmth and wit affects everyone around her - even, eventually, the cold Marilla We follow Anne through her rebellious years, her transformation into a young woman, and her romantic pairing with Gilbert. This play has been charming audiences around the world."The response was phenomenal ... The show is representative of what family audiences are craving to see. During our run there were countless compliments, and numerous requests for repeat performances ..." -- Jane Prince Jones, managing Director, Garza Theatre, Post, TX"Anne of Green Gables suits community theatre with a varied cast, simple set, and characters familiar to all of us. This version of the novel is concise yet detailed, humorous and bittersweet." - Debbie Baldwin, Columbia Entertainment Company (MO)"I am delighted to say that the choice of your Anne of Green Galbes was a very happy one for the California Theatre Center." -- Will Huddleston, Resident Director, California Theatre Center

Romulus Linney: 17 Short Plays


Romulus Linney - 1992
    This volume of works by playwright Romulus Linney includes:Ambrosio, Komachi , Hrosvitha, Akhmatova, Can Can, Claire De Lune, Gold and Silver Waltz, Songs of Love, Juliet, Sand Mountain Matchmaking, Yancey, The Death of King Philip, El Hermano, The Captivity of Pixie Shedman, Goodbye, Howard, The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks, and Why The Lord Come to Sand Mountain.

Phantom


Arthur Kopit - 1992
    This mesmerizing Phantom is traditional musical theatre in the finest sense. The Tony award winning authors of Nine have transformed Gaston Leroux' The Phantom of the Opera into a sensation that enraptures audiences and critics with beautiful songs and an expertly crafted book. It is constructed around characters more richly developed than in any other version, including the original novel. "Everything is first rate." - N.Y. Daily News

Henley: Four Plays


Beth Henley - 1992
    The plays are: The Lucky Spot, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Wake of Jamey Foster, and Abundance.

Theatre Criticism


Irving Wardle - 1992
    He also tackles the prejudices, questions and practices of modern reviewing.

One Night Stands


Michael Billington - 1992
    Arranged chronologically, with a 5,000 word introduction on the role of the critic, these reviews and occasional "think pieces" add up to an authoritative yet highly personal history of British theatre over two vital decades at the end of the 20th century.

Plays by Tony Kushner


Tony Kushner - 1992
    The 1999 reprint also contains Slavs!.

Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre


Brenda Murphy - 1992
    Their intense creative relationship, fuelled by a deep personal affinity that endured until Williams's death, lasted from 1947 until 1960. The production of A Streetcar Named Desire established Williams as America's greatest playwright and Kazan as its most important director; together they created some of the most influential theatrical events of the post-war era. In this book Brenda Murphy analyses this artistic partnership and the plays and theatrical techniques the artists developed collaboratively in their productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth. In addition, Murphy suggests alternative ways to examine the working relationship between playwright and director which can be applied to other practitioners in twentieth-century drama. The book contains numerous illustrations from important productions.

Theatre Lighting From A To Z


Norman C. Boulanger - 1992
    For both novice and experienced theatre technicians. Comb binding. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,

Theandric: Julian Beck's Last Notebooks


Julian Beck - 1992
    It is a kind of testament, an ultimate statement on "the philosophy and metaphysics of the theatre," a sub-title he frequently used for Theandric, in which his life-long concerns, such as the structure of the relationship between audience and theatre workers and the relationship of the artist to the political time in which he lives, are crystallized. He discovered that the existing word "theandric" expressed the presence of the divine in the actor.The aim of The Living Theatre Archive is to present material, largely unpublished, which will give an insight into the history, inner workings and methods of the Living Theatre, and the thinking of Julian Beck and Judith Malina. It will concentrate on the period from 1947 to 1985, the year that Julian Beck died. Scripts, production notes, diary pages, workbooks/directing books, sketches, photographs, article

O Ye Jigs and Juleps


Don Musselman - 1992
    Unit set with inserts. Turn-of-the-century costumes, a flexible cast of adults and children; 23 women, 20 men (boys and girls included or with doubling, 15 women and 12 men). There are endless possibilities for larger numbers of children and adults. The play leds itself to summer programs, churches, community theatres. A delight for family audiences.Virginia is a bright eleven year old enjoying life in a small Kentucky town nearly a century ago. With a child's eyes she pieces the petty hypocrisies and enjoys the colorful qualities of the townspeople. She charms all with her shrewd and ingenious comments on life, death, God, cattle, and mint juleps. This humorous play consists of episodes based on authentic essays of this astute child of 1900. With Virginia as guide we tour her school, church, home, and main street, a journey from Egyptian bondage to the Judgment Seat for a kind of celestial graduation, receiving harps and crowns rather than diplomas.