Search Results: Performing Arts from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service, 1945. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. SOFT COVER. Text/As New w/trace margin discoloration. Blue soft cover/VG w/light wear & faint PO name on upper front. PO pencilled to fEP. Strong copy w/light bent to upper corner from poor shelving. First produced by Joseph M. Hyman & Bernard Hart, directed by Moss Hart, at Henry Miller's Theatre, New York City, Dec 13, 1944, with setting by Frederick Fox.

Minneapolis, MN: Filiquarian Publishing, 2007. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. 3-act play by Norwegian playwright, theatre director & poet, Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 - 1906). First published Dec.1879, the play premiered at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark in the same month. A critique of 19th century marriage norms, the play was highly controversial. It is the story of Nora, who leaves husband & children to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," as it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors & judges who assess feminine conduct from the masculine standpoint. However, it was not meant to advocate feminist rights for in a 1898 speech addressing the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he "must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement," for he… Read More

Madrid, Spain: Editorial Ebro, 1972. Decima Edicion Ilustrada . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New w/sporadic marginalia to some 6 pgs. Spanish language, 10th Edition of 1972. Yellow softcover/NF. Frontispiece: Author's portrait. Spanish playwright Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760 - 1828) wrote El Sí de las Niñas (The Maiden's Consent, or, The Young Lady's Consent) in 1801; it was first performed in 1806 at Madrid's Teatro de la Cruz, drawing extraordinary attendance. The 3-Act play is dramatizes prevalent Spanish mores governing courtship, marriage & family duties --- a rich, elderly man's proposes marriage to a poor, young girl who loves another. With a cast of many, the comedy addresses conflicts between fulfillment of one's personal needs & dreams and those of extended family-societal obligations, marking the rise of the age of Spanish Enlightenment. The drama was denounced upon the reinstatement of the Inquisition when… Read More

New York, NY: Raydell Publishing, 1979. First American Edition . Soft Cover/Theatre Program. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/PO name & date of attendance (Aug 14th, 1982, Boston) to upper corner of title page, & humidity spot to lower corner of back cover. LAID IN: One-page handout with Derin Altay as Eva. 24-page program to two-act Evita, winner of Best Musical, London (1978), 7 Tony Awards, Best Musical from NY & LA Drama Critics' Circles (1980). Excellent publication, & photos (some archival) & biographical sketches of Eva Peron, Juan Peron, Che Guevara (Argentinian-born, but likely never met Eva in real life), as well as those of Tim Rice (Lyricist), Andrew Lloyd Webber (Composer & Orchestrator), Harold Prince (Director) and supporting staff. Followed by Synopsis of the two acts.

New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Co, 1948. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Text/Near New. Beige linen boards w/turquoise lettering/NF w/faint discoloration to lower edges. DJ/VG; Strong & sound w/closed tears & nips to edges & showing trace discoloration. Illustrated endpapers. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned to 1981 reissue from Ayer. Instructions to 21 dances with piano accompaniments, supplementary line drawings, and social history. Among the folk dances from the US are Paw Paw Patch, Shoo Fly, American Polka, Take a Little Peek, and Birdie in the Cage. Those from Mexico include La Virgencita, Los Matlanchinese, La Cucaracha, and El Jarabe Tapatio. Strong copy.

New York, NY: Times Books, 1979. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/nips, chips, small losses & light surface wear. Biography and photographic essay of the electrifying dance partnership between English, Royal Ballet ballerina Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991) & Russian native dancer Rudolf Nureyev (1938 - 1993). Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 against great odds. The two first performed together in Giselle. She was 42 and he was 24. Their performance outstanding, they became an on-and-offstage partnership that lasted until her retirement in 1979 at age 60. and knew many a repeated, frenzied curtain calls and bouquet tosses.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hard Cover/Flexible Boards. Fine/Very Good. Stated 3rd Printing, 1961. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated flexible green cover w/red spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to leading edges & short losses to upper/lower spine edges. Kubuki, a form of traditional Japanese drama of highly stylized song, mime & dance, was initially performed by women in early 17th century --- by century's end, actors were only male. Typically scenes extracted from historical narratives, full appreciation presumes knowledge of the story at large which this excellent volume provides.

New York, NY: Evergreen/Grove Weidenfeld, 1973. First Edition, 11th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 1973, First Edition, 11th Printing. Illustrated softcover/NF w/a whisper of shelfwear. First presented by the Royal Shakespeare Co., Aldwych Theatre, London, 1971. Powerful 2-act play from English playwright Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008) at his best. Set in a converted farmhouse w/sparse furnishings (two sofas & arm chair). Protagonists ---all in their forties --- Deeley & wife Kate, and Anna, and a friend of Kate's whom they've not seen for 20 years. Stripped of all but essentials, it is of drama that lurks beneath terse, taut, civil, witty, often pregnant, of insinuating conversations that both enchant & horrify. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace edge rubs and small rub to upper front. Author signed on front cover verso. Two plays, both for one actor. The first, The Redthroats, is performed on a bare stage with a single chair and no props. The second, Smooch Music, excepting three sections, is performed with a live jazz trio using saxophones, clinet, vibes, aoustic bass and percussion. The former chronicles the life of an Englishman from depressed childhood, daydreaming adolescence, experience in prostitution, and final escape to America. The latter is a collection of vignettes of love and romance.

New York, NY: New American Library, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Light gray boards w/red spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/edge rubs & closed tears. Outstanding 2-Act play of a Jewish family, unfied after years apart by the Holocaust First performed 1985. 94 pgs with b/w photos. One of Barbara Lebow's (1936 -) earliest plays and among the most frequently performed. "A shayna maidel" is a popular Yiddish term meaning "a pretty girl"; note, however, "shayna" also describes that which is dear, good, radiant and kind. Penned with a review from Lily Baxter to ensure the "flair, intonation & quality" of Yiddish terms use in the dialogue were properly employed. Author hopes audience/reader to sense the "endearment, adoration and hope, the precious nature of a child, of feeling for the future" exhibited by all characters, of whom. only Rose speaks in perfect American… Read More

New York, NY: Viking Press, 1960. First Edition, 1962 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New & Bright w/tidy, sporadic marginalia strikes (see attached photos) to some 10 pgs. Softcover/VG; strong w/light edge & surface wear. Classic Miller "play given a second chance". 1950's play by Pulitzer Prize wining playwright Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), husband to Marilyn Munroe. First staged Sept, 1955, as a one-act verse drama at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway; the performance was not successful. Miller revised it into a 2-act play, staged in London Oct,1956, to notable recognition. This copy is the 1960, 2-act Edition, w/a New Introduction by Miller. Play set in a 1950's Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y. A chorus supports the narrator Alfieri. Story of Eddie who falls in love with Catherine, orphaned niece of his wife Beatrice. Catherine, however, is enamoured with the wife's cousin Rodolfo. Drama set against the… Read More

Berkeley, CA: Shakespeare Publications, 2014. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 2014, First Edition, First Thus. 5-act drama written in the style of Shakespeare, and, with dialogues entirely drawn from Shakespearian lines ... but with a new plot and cast of characters. A tribute to the power of Shakespeare's mastery of language in terms of the "wit, fluency, acuity, and force of his verse and prose" by A.K. Ludwig. Tale is set in Renaissance Sicily and Burgundy. The Shakespearian lines (modified in use of proper nouns, verbs & tense, and locations as necessary)are all found in the Concordance. A new drama meant to be performed. An admirable intellectual exercise.