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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
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"In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious literary whodunit, Horowitz himself becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation--and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Daniel Hawthorne"--Dust jacket flap.
Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books, he's ending their collaboration. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about...
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Pub. Date
2000
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xv, 204 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Using games, exercises and discussion, The Singing and Acting Handbook takes a stimulating approach to the demands made upon today's performers, and will equip both the experienced professional and the student to take full advantage of rehearsal and performance. With advice on approaches to learning music, interpreting scores, and building characters, it provides a long-awaited innovative resource for performers, directors, workshop leaders and teachers....
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2023.
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"Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally 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 getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...
8) 42nd Street
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2021.
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Peggy Sawyer is from small-town America and just a face in the chorus line of 'Pretty Lady', the new show from legendary director Julian Marsh. But when leading lady, Dorothy Brock is injured, Peggy's dreams of stardom just may come true.
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Mister Monkey-- a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee-- is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot, who plays the chimp's lawyer, knows the production is dreadful and bemoans the failure of her acting career. One day she receives a mysterious letter from an anonymous admirer. As more lives get pulled into madcap situations, seemingly disparate lives become deeply connected-- even that...
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Pub. Date
c2004
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xvi, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Outlines the censorship history of 125 classic plays from ancient times to the present. Each entry presents the name(s) under which the play has appeared, the date and place of original production, a summary of the play, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. Additional features include playwrights' profiles, a list of the plays grouped by reasons for banning, and a list of 100 additional challenged, censored, or banned plays"--cover....
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2024.
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210 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. The book combines historical and current cultural sector perspectives as it reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Part vision, part provocation,...
15) Read It and Weep
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Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings. Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful...
16) Kate in waiting
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Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.
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"Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for...
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2021.
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Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of...
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