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Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 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. A few props, a little makeup, a costume and-voilà-applause on the rugged frontier.
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When his father suddenly dies, Nicholas Nickleby is sent by his uncle to Dotheboys Hall to work as a teacher, but when Nicholas discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, maliciously bullies the students, he must decide whether to stay, or leave and allow his uncle to cut off support for his family.
5) Touchstone
Author
Series
Glass thorns volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longing to develop his theatrical talents in a world where the fine arts incorporate spell-craft, Cayden, a rebellious descendant of multiple magical races, combines the powers of Merlin, Shakespeare, and John Lennon in an effort to become an honored artist.
Author
Publisher
Allworth
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
231 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second edition of Building the Successful Theater Company takes readers even deeper into the world of theatrical production, examining in great depth the financial realities of establishing--and maintaining--a successful organization. This indispensable reference is updated to include more theater company profiles with expert advice to better reveal the pitfalls, passions, and practicalities of the theater industry. The author's been-there-done-that...
Author
Series
Blue door volume 1
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
What starts as a diversion to stave off boredom during the Easter holidays soon becomes much more for the seven young members of the Blue Door Theatre Company. The four girls - Lyn, Sandra, Vicky and Maddy - and three boys - Bulldog, Nigel and Jeremy - play every part in the theatre, not only on stage but off it too, producing everything from the scripts and sets to the music and costumes. They also learn that the show must go on, even in the face...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, 'Sir Charles Grandison'. George Midash buys the plays manuscript at Sotheby's for Pierre, the head of the avant-garde theater troupe. Another troupe, headed by the traditional Lilianna Zorska, strives to produce their own version of the play. In her first role, a young actress is manipulated by Pierre to join his company. When Lilianna decides to...
11) Vintage murder
Author
Language
English
Description
Inspector Roderick Alleyn finds his vacation cut short when a famous producer ends up killed by a wine bottle, leading Alleyn to investigate the actors of a theater company, as well as the dead man's wife.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 276 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based in a fictional Canadian town where legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the Artistic Directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past...
13) The Marvels
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
665 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...
14) Ink in the blood
Author
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.
15) The dresser
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Traveling up the Yorkshire coast with her husband and his acting troupe, Caroline, the mother of Charlotte Pitt, anticipates their arrival at the famed fishing village landing sight of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's tale and develops an awareness about inviting and disallowing evil.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 282 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now ensconced as artistic director of the New Burbage theatre festival, Geoffrey Tennant must stage the cursed play Macbeth to fulfill the vision of his deceased predecessor Oliver Welles. The actor cast in the lead engages in a titanic clash of egos with Geoffrey, while Oliver weighs in confrontationally from the grave. The festival faces a financial crisis that forces its CEO to engage in some risky business, while leading lady Ellen Fanshaw endures...
Author
Publisher
High Top Publications LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[T]he 1850s. The New York theatre of that era was the Hollywood of its day, with all its trademark insanities. It was everything that was America. Its beauty and excitement, its rise and fall of personalities, its joys and desperations, selfish corruptions and violence. Even its hatred and racism. Enter Colonel Tearwood's American Theatre Company. Helmed by actor Nathanial Luck and playwright Robert Harrison, it revolutionizes the theatre of the...
20) Ask me anything
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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