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A haunting on the hill / by Hand, Elizabeth,author.;
"Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play The Witch of Edmonton, she may be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend in upstate New York, she is immediately taken in by the ornate, if crumbling, gothic mansion, near-hidden outside a small town. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie -- the perfect place to develop and rehearse the play"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Novels.; Haunted houses; Dramatists;
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I was better last night : a memoir / by Fierstein, Harvey,1952-author.;
"A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner. Harvey Fierstein's stellar career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting-Hairspray, Fiddler, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day-and writing: La Cage Aux Folle, Torch Song Trilogy (for which he also won a Tony for acting) and Kinky Boots. But while he is widely known as one of today's most peerless performers, Harvey has never shared his own story until now"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Fierstein, Harvey, 1952-; Actors; Gay actors; Gay dramatists; Dramatists, American;
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Jack Taylor. [videorecording] / by Bruen, Ken.Jack Taylor novels.Videorecording.; Collins, David,1967-; Fleming, Marcus.; Forkin, Edwina.; Glen, Iain,1961-; Noone, Nora-Jane.; Orme, Stuart.; Scott, Killian.; Thorisson, Marteinn.; Acorn Media (Firm); Molten Rock Media.; RLJ Entertainment.;
The dramatist -- Priest -- Shot down.Iain Glen, Nora-Jane Noone, Killian Scott.ack Taylor is a former cop turned private investigator with little to show for his time in the Irish Guards but his old police overcoat. Few of his former colleagues have any regard for Taylor, who looks more like the people they arrest every day than one of their own. The exception is his friend Garda Kate Noonan, though even she has to walk a fine line between helping Taylor and irritating her boss. Six months sober, Taylor takes on cases with the help of his young assistant, Cody, even while he worries about his elderly mother, who has suffered a stroke. Try as he might, the ex-cop from Galway finds that in his hometown, his past is always just a mistake away.PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.
Subjects: Bruen, Ken.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Private investigators; Taylor, Jack (Fictitious character);
© c2014., RLJ Entertainment,
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All the rage : a partial memoir in two acts and a prologue / by Fraser, Brad,1959-author.;
"A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era. Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian playwrights, his work produced to acclaim all over the world. All the Rage chronicles Brad Fraser's rise as he breaks with his past and enrolls as a performing arts student. He is pulled into the newly developing Canadian theatre scene, where he shows great promise. But his early career is one of challenge after challenge, some of which result from his upbringing and prejudice against his queerness. But just as many challenges arise from his combative personality and willingness to challenge the establishment. Few Canadian artists have been as abrasive, notorious and polarizing as Fraser was in his youth. Woven through this tale of artistic development is his journey as a queer man coming into himself during the most exhilarating period in the Gay Liberation Movement, and the dawn of a global health crisis. What should have been a triumphant time in a young, successful playwright's life was blighted with the terrifying emergence of AIDS, and the sickness and death of comrades and lovers. This is both the story of an artist's evolution and an important work of gay history that has rarely been recounted from a Canadian perspective. Written with Fraser's trademark wit and candour, All the Rage is unsparing, sometimes shocking and always enthralling."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Fraser, Brad, 1959-; Gay dramatists; Gay liberation movement; Gays; Gays; Dramatists, Canadian (English);
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Smile : the story of a face / by Ruhl, Sarah,1974-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this poignant and deeply intimate memoir, Sarah Ruhl chronicles her experience with Bell's palsy after giving birth to twins. At night, I dreamed that I could smile. The smile felt effortless in my dreams, the way it did in my childhood. Happily married and in the flush of hard-earned professional success, with her first play opening on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk pregnancy and given birth to twins when she discovers the left side of her face entirely paralyzed. Bell's palsy. Ninety percent of Bell's palsy sufferers see spontaneous improvement and full recovery. Like Ruhl's mother. Like Angelina Jolie. But not like Sarah Ruhl. Sarah Ruhl is in the unlucky ten percent. Like Allen Ginsberg. But for a woman, a mother, a wife, and an artist working in the realm of theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior, brings significant and specific challenges. So Ruhl begins an intense decade-long search for a cure, while simultaneously grappling with the reality of her new face-one that, while recognizably her own-is incapable of accurately communicating feelings or intentions. In a series of searing, witty, and lucid meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey as a patient, mother, wife, and artist. She details the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, the pain post-partum depression, the joys and trials of marriage and being a playwright and a mother to three tiny children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of difficulty. Brimming with insight, humility, and levity, SMILE is a triumph by one of the leading playwrights in America. It is about loss and reconciliation, perseverance and hope. The Hollywood pitch would be Joan Didion meets Ann Lamott with a little Nora Ephron for good measure"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Ruhl, Sarah, 1974-; Facial paralysis; Dramatists, American;
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Bill [videorecording] / by Baynton, Mathew,1980-; Farnaby, Simon.; Howe-Douglas, Martha.; Howick, Jim.; Lewis, Damian,1971-; Mccrory, Helen.; Rickard, Laurence.; Willbond, Ben.; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc,publisher.; British Broadcasting Corporation.Television Service,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.;
Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, Helen Mccrory, Damian Lewis.Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters wrong.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Dramatists; Lutenists;
For private home use only.
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Stalking Shakespeare : a memoir of murder, madness, and my search for the poet beneath the paint / by Durkee, Lee,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades-long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began with a simple premise: despite the prevalence of popular portraits, no one really knows what Shakespeare looked like. That the Bard of Avon has gotten progressively handsomer in modern depictions seems only to reinforce this point. Stalking Shakespeare is Durkee's fascinating memoir about an obsession gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee's own unrelenting search-via X-ray and infrared technologies--for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life. As Durkee becomes better at beguiling curators into testing their paintings with spectral technologies, we get a front-row seat to the captivating mysteries plaguing the various portraits rumored to depict Shakespeare. Whisking us backward in time through layers of paint and into the pages of obscure books on the Elizabethans, Durkee takes us from Vermont to Tokyo to Mississippi to DC and ultimately to London to confront the stuffy curators forever protecting the image of the Bard. For his part, Durkee is the adversary they didn't know they had--a writer from Mississippi with nothing to lose--the "Dan Brown of English portraiture." A lively, bizarre, and surprisingly moving blend of biography, art history, and madness, Stalking Shakespeare is as entertaining as it is rigorous and sheds new light on one of history's greatest cultural and literary icons"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Dramatists, English;
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The death of Lucy Kyte : a Josephine Tey mystery / by Upson, Nicola.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Tey, Josephine, 1896 or 1897-1952; Murder; Women dramatists;
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True west : Sam Shepard's life, work, and times / by Greenfield, Robert,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An intimate portrait of the iconic playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard, whose wide-ranging and enduring body of work places him at the center of the American canon, from an award-winning biographer. True West is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. This sweeping biography charts Shepard's long and complicated journey from a small town in southern California to his standing as an internationally known playwright and movie star. The son of an alcoholic father, Shepard crafted a public persona as an authentic American archetype: the loner, the cowboy, the drifter, a stranger in a strange land. Despite his great critical and financial success, he seemed, like so many of his characters, to remain perpetually dispossessed. Much like Robert Greenfield's biographies of Jerry Garcia and Timothy Leary, this book delves deeply into Shepard's life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it. True West takes readers through the world of downtown theater in lower Manhattan in the early sixties, the jazz scene at the Village Gate, fringe theatre in London in the seventies, Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour, the making of classic films like Zabriskie Point, Days of Heaven, and The Right Stuff, and Broadway productions of Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love. For this definitive biography, Greenfield interviewed dozens of people who knew Shepard well, many of whom had never before spoken on the record about him. While exploring his relationships with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange across the long arc of his brilliant career, Greenfield makes the case for Shepard not just as a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock 'n' roll to serious theater"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.; Actors; Dramatists, American;
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The Lake Shore Limited / by Miller, Sue,1943-;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Terrorism victims' families; Terrorism; Victims of terrorism; Women dramatists;
© c2010., Alfred A. Knopf,
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