Live Theater

At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad-hoc venue to see its unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style. From this unlikely seed grew the Second City, the massively influential comedy theater troupe, and its offshoots - the Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, SNL, and a slew of others. Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv in this richly reported, scene-driven narrative.

In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show.

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites 40 actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

Hollywood Haunted was the definitive book on Hollywood ghosts and an instant hit when it was published in 1994; and its popularity has never waned. Recently Author Laurie Jacobson discovered chapters meant for the original book but cut for length. She has restored these chapters in this volume as well as additional information in original chapters to create the most complete version of the book – the way she and Marc Wanamaker originally envisioned it…Hollywood Haunted – Authors' Cut. HH Authors' Cut covers 100 years of ghostly goings-on in Tinseltown. Fascinating new stories enhance ...

This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a great era in American musical theater: Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur Freed, and many others. How these people worked together to conceive, finance, write, produce, stage, and present these brilliant shows is detailed here.

Theater of Lies provides an in-depth examination of the lies, misinformation, and propaganda in our lives. For centuries, we’ve been persuaded to trust the lies told by our governments, businesses, and religions to manage how we think and act, to their benefit, not ours. Filled with real-life examples, Theater of Lies demonstrates the impact lies and misinformation have had through the centuries and today on topics including racism, gender debates, entrenched political divides, and the status of women.

Burlesque: A Living History captures the spirit of this unique art form through hundreds of photographs and stories from many who were a part of America's most colorful past. This audiobook highlights the careers and contributions of selected artists, many of whom were the nuts and bolts of burlesque. It also acknowledges just some of the young performers of today who are diligently working to remember the days of old. When burlesque theatres and clubs went dark, a whole world went dark with them.

Before Tim Federle became a best-selling author and a Broadway playwright, he worked as a back-up dancer at the Super Bowl, a polar bear at Radio City, and a card-carrying chorus boy on Broadway. Life Is Like a Musical features 50 tips learned backstage, onstage, and in between gigs, with chapters such as "Dance Like Everyone's Watching" and "Save the Drama for the Stage". This charming and clever guide will appeal to all ages and inspire listeners to step into the lead roles of their own lives, even if they're not recovering theater majors.

Seit Erscheinen seines gefeierten Romans Rabenliebe hat Peter Wawerzinek wohl an die hundert Mal daraus gelesen...

Ted Swartz and his Ted & Company TheaterWorks team are known for blending Bible stories with comedy and poignancy, and pushing the envelope on issues of faith and social justice. But who is Ted Swartz? Follow along in this engaging memoir as Swartz finds his way as a middle child in an eastern Pennsylvania traditional Mennonite home to his early work in the family butcher shop. Journey with Ted through the decision of uprooting his young family to attend seminary and then embracing life as a writer and actor.

Christie is excited to attend the premiere of Turn and Deliver Cole Kennick’s new action-adventure movie. It’s the anniversary of D-Day, and she and her best friend Tanya plan to get dolled up like nineteen forties bombshells for a fun girls' night out. When Tanya bails at the last minute, Christie enters the theater alone, looking for a place to sit. Reed, a Navy SEAL, heads to the theater, to see the action-adventure film after he lucks into a last-minute ticket via the local radio station. He lucks out again when a blonde-haired, green-eyed bombshell, who could’ve walked straight ...

Tomas Kyd, the son of the notorious Captain William Kyd, had always had well enough. Yet enough was not at all satisfaction. Enough only stirred within him a desire for more: a desire for love, adventure, and a life of nobility that he felt he, too, so richly deserved. However, his father's curse, that which he shares with the pirate crew of his father's unfinished voyage, has always kept him from discovering a life he thought worth living.

Generationen von Schauspielern haben Lessings Stück interpretiert, und zu Recht gilt "Nathan der Weise" als eine der Paraderollen auf deutschen Bühnen. Mitschnitt aus dem Deutschen Theater in Berlin.

Peter Palitzsch (1918-2004), der große alte Mann des modernen Theaters, langjähriger Wegbegleiter Brechts, hat drei kurze Texte über Krieg, Gewalt und Emigration mit jeweils tödlichem Ausgang geschrieben. "Die drei Episoden zeigen, daß jeder Tod in einem (gesellschafts-) politischen, öffentlichen Umfeld stattfindet. Der Tod ist gar nicht privat.