The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992

The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992

Author: Otis L. Guernsey

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2000-05-01

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9781557831477

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(Applause Books). The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1991-1992 season, including: Conversations With My Father * Crazy for You * Dancing at Lughnasa * The Extra Man * Fires in the Mirror * Lips Together, Teeth Apart * Mad Forest * Marvin's Room * Sight Unseen * Two Trains Running. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States, the Off-Off-Broadway season, the various awards, and more. Also includes lots of photos from the productions.


Banned Plays

Banned Plays

Author: Dawn B. Sova

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1438129939

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An alphabetical listing of plays that have been banned throughout history with a short synopsis and reason for banning as well as profiles of the playwrights and other resource material.


The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992

The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992

Author: Howard Stein

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781557831125

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A collection of one-act plays from American playwrights, which cover such themes as love, fantasy, politics, grief, marriage, crime, and deceit.


Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections

Author: Denise L. Montgomery

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2011-08-11

Total Pages: 834

ISBN-13: 081087721X

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Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.


The Best Plays Theater Yearbook

The Best Plays Theater Yearbook

Author: Jeffrey Eric Jenkins

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780879103460

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Covers plays produced in New York, theater awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.


A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama

A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama

Author: David Krasner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 1405137347

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This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture