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1) Barton Fink
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trendy playwright is trying to write a simple movie script, but to his misfortune has a bit of writer's block.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A ... memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner, [whose] 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...
Publisher
Cinequest
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In 1979 Oakley Hall III was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall from a bridge took his artistic life away. He suffered horrific head injuries, was hospitalized nearly a year and incapacitated much longer. The Loss of Nameless Things is the haunting tale of Hall's fall from grace and what happens when, twenty five years later, a theater company stages the very play he was writing the night he fell"--IMDb...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of...
Author
Publisher
Travelers' Tales, An imprint of Solas House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Janna Goodwin takes a hilarious and reflective look at the emotional experiences that make everyday life exciting--and the physical ones that remind us we are lucky to be alive. Encountering a range of life events across the American West, in Hollywood, in the Catskills, Boston, on the Mediterranean, and Paris, Goodwin looks for and finds meaning, if not security, in a clear-eyed acknowledgment of the human condition--and in the saving grace of laughter.--From...
7) Yes, Daddy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and, soon, to an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his latter-day writing quarters in Key West.
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Solis's memoir about growing up brown at the U.S./Mexico border. As he examines seminal moments and rites of passage, Solis looks at them as a series of paintings, capturing events survived thanks to the intercession of the Divine. The result is a kind of flash-fiction account of his life: not so much autobiography as an "poetic voice to convey the authentic.
10) Molière
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's wife, Elmire. But, soon after, the confrontation between...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Combines history, biography, and performance as various actors who have been in Shakespeare productions discuss the characters and the stories behind the plays.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow the amazing life of William Shakespeare, vividly described in words and pictures, with graphic dramatisations of Shakespeare's most famous plays.
14) The floodmakers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
176 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry Buelle awakes confused one morning in his bathtub. His stepmother phones him, complaining that his father, a successful-and cantankerous-elderly playwright, has stopped taking his heart medicine. Harry has never heard her sound so tired, and, with his own life in shambles, agrees to join his parents-and his sister and her husband-at their Southern beach house retreat. Having the whole family together, cooped up in the same space, gives rise...
15) Federico
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
349 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
Federico solo hay uno. No le hacen falta apellidos. Un nombre que reconocen tanto niños como adultos, que suena a duende, a cante jondo y a romance popular, pero también a la vanguardia más rompedora. Un nombre que encarna la alegría y las sombras de España, la época más brillante de nuestra cultura desde la Edad de Oro, pero también la guerra y la vergüenza de un pueblo que nunca podrá perdonarse la muerte del poeta que más lo representaba.
En...
16) Code 6: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring playwright Kate Gamble is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western world. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
17) Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
18) Hamnet
Author
Publisher
Libros del Asteroide
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Agnes, una muchacha peculiar que parece no rendir cuentas a nadie y que es capaz de crear misteriosos remedios con sencillas combinaciones de plantas, es la comidilla de Stratford, un peque©ło pueblo de Inglaterra. Cuando esta conoce a un joven preceptor de lat©Ưn igual de extraordinario que ella, se da cuenta enseguida de que est©Łn llamados a formar una familia. Pero su matrimonio se ver©Ł puesto a prueba, primero por sus parientes y despu©♭s...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
96 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Bard written especially for children. It profiles the life and times of Shakespeare, peppered with quotes from plays he wrote, and includes short synopses of the more famous ones.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A 1984 East Berlin simple surveillance assignment: Capt. Gerd Wiesler, a Stasi officer and a specialist in surveillance, has been assigned to keep an eye on Georg Dreyman, a respected playwright, and his actress girlfriend, Christa-Maria Sieland. Though Dreyman is known to associate with blacklisted director Albert Jerska, a known dissident, Dreyman's record is spotless. Wiesler discovers that Minister Hempf has an ulterior motive in spying on this...
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