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Lady Windermere misinterprets her husband's interest in an older woman, Mrs. Erlynne, causing a rift that could lead to both marital and societal ruin. Lady Windermere's Fan Is an intriguing tale that examines intention versus outcome in a world driven by perception.
Lady Windermere is a young wife who's concerned by her husband's connection to the mysterious, Mrs. Erlynne. She believes the woman is a threat to her marriage and livelihood. Despite...
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The eagerly awaited follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book gives listeners an extraordinary inside look at In the Heights, his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegría Hudes, now a Hollywood blockbuster.
“[An] exuberant, unique, and invaluable record of dynamic, brilliant, and soulful creativity.”—Booklist (starred...
“[An] exuberant, unique, and invaluable record of dynamic, brilliant, and soulful creativity.”—Booklist (starred...
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A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster.
From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster is one of America's most spectacularly inventive novelists. Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge established him as an award-winning filmmaker. The Inner Life of Martin Frost brings together his talents as a novelist and...
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Quintessential Coen brothers fare, but different. Inside Llewyn Davis has a certain kinship with Les Misérables. In it almost all the principal actors, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, sing. While not quite a musical, Inside Llewyn Davis is, built around full-length performances of folk songs that were, heard in the grubby cafes of the Village in a year when Bob Dylan, who kind of, sort of shows up in the movie, had just appeared on...
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The screenplay edition of the major motion picture adaptation, starring Maggie Smith, of Alan Bennett's acclaimed story "The Lady in the Van"
From acclaimed author and playwright Alan Bennett, whose smash hit The History Boys won a Tony Award for Best Play, comes the screenplay of The Lady in the Van-soon to be a major motion picture starring Dame Maggie Smith.
The Lady in the Van is the true story of Bennett's experiences with an eccentric homeless...
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"It's showtime! Intriguing, astonishing, standing ovations, hilarious, breathtaking, soul stirring, powerful, and showstopping."
Introducing Jacqueline Sutton Ball! One of the greatest African American female playwrights of all time! This book shows God's love and grace through her well-written and family-friendly gospel stage plays. Her storylines demonstrate everyday life situations that audiences can relate to.
They are integrating messages...
10) Parade's End
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This was the first time I felt as involved in film as in working in theatre. My immersion in Parade's End from the writing to the finishing touches took up the time I might have given to writing my own play but, perhaps to an unwarranted degree, I think of this Parade's End as mine, such was the illusion of proprietorship over Ford's characters and story.Tom Stoppard, from the IntroductionTom Stoppard's BBC / HBO dramatization of Ford Madox Ford's...
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DELTA is a fictional screenplay that explores the lives of young film-directors who seek success in the entertainment industry. 'The Director' bar is where a lot of aspiring directors head to in hopes of creating great networks with key film industry players. Three male directors, Bradley Jones, John Michel and Anglo Floyd spend some time discussing with the bar's bartender, who gives them a card with the details of a bar called d" (Delta). The directors...
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Nicos seeks solitude in an abandoned village up in the mountains to study his part in the 'Woman of Zakynthos' (a theatrical soliloquy by the Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos regarding the Greek Revolution of 1821). Terrified, King is hiding in the forest lest he is locked up again in a mental institution. And Makis, who is divided between two ladies of the underworld and who has become rich through pimping, is worrying about the collapse of...
14) Painless Acts
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Gripping, fascinating, brutal, 'Painless Acts' is an intriguing television crime drama about an intense, cryptic relationship between a killer, an obsessively religious mother and a cop who is seemingly targeted at random. It has a fast-paced story line and is an excellent read.
Samantha Blaketon is a lowly detective in the police's minor crime team going nowhere when she is randomly contacted by a serial killer from an unsolved 40-year multiple...
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From the Authors Since writing my book, A Dream Within a Dream, in 2008, the enigmas of the Kiger family have slowly been peeled away, revealing pain, suffering, regret, and forgiveness. My wife, Barbara, a psychologist who has worked with adolescent girls and their families for the last thirty years, has been very curious as to how such a tragedy could have taken place in this seemingly normal family. After many late night discussions and debates,...
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When you are lost and confused, it usually starts at a young age You’re not who you are solely on what happen to you on yesterday. You are who you are on, what happen to you on all the other days But The days that lead yu up to yesterday, are the days to tale, tale(Debbie Lewis)From the beginning Now The way I view life, is shared with others in our everyday life. From a child until the day we are depending on ourselves to provide for ourselves...
17) Lost and Found
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Relationships are malleable. One day, you can be inseparable from a friend while the next, you're a complete stranger. Someone, who you could have never met, can change your life with a few simple words. What does it mean to be, connected to others? To these characters, it means everything.
Jacob, a comic enthusiast and Peter, a self-conscious narcissist make the unlikeliest of friends. They meet Quinton, a nerd with similar interests to Peter at...
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The book consists of a collection of 3 plays. The first play features a gathering of Chinese deities at the court of the Heavenly Emperor on Chinese New Year day. The gods got themselves into a "serious" discussion to try to solve some of the problems that plagued humans on earth. The second play makes a revisitation of the "Red Hill story" and tells a tale involving Merlions and how the "Red Hill boy" comes back in the modern setting. The last play...
19) Send Me Wings
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This story begins in Charleston, South Carolina. Ron and Sarah Boggs have the sorrowful task of finalizing Sarah's mother's estate. While meeting with the attorney, Mr. Lyndsay, they learn her mother has left her an old church in Hopetown, Virginia. Sarah seems troubled by this inheritance and Ron becomes very curious about the real estate prospect. After much encouragement, Ron convinces Sarah to travel to Hopetown. Ron feels there could be a financial...
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Like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studio's invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. Duet for Cannibals is the result.
Frederic Tuten, in Vogue magazine, wrote: "Duet for Cannibals is a witty, bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn...Dr. Arthur Bauer, attractive in...
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