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Paperback. Condition: Fair. National Book Award Finalist * National Book Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A Chicago Tribune "Best Book of 2014" * Washington Post "10 Best Books of 2014" * The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Examines the history of modern American show business through the long and glorious career of the author's father - the raucous low-comic star of burlesque, vaudeville, the Broadway revue and musical, Hollywood movies and the legitimate stage.

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Hardback. Condition: Fair. This mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton's brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton's public career spanned only three years (1964-1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr. Sloane to his career-making Loot, Orton's plays often shocked, sometimes outraged, and always captivated audiences with their dark yet farcical cynicism. A rising star and undeniable talent, Orton left much undone when he was bludgeoned to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who had educated Orton and also dreamed of becoming a famous writer. Prick Up Your Ears was the basis for the distinguished 1987 film of the same name, directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Alan Bennett, and starring Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. A brilliant, page-turning examination of the dueling forces behind Orton's work, Prick Up Your Ears secured the playwright's reputation as a great twentieth-century artist.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Finalist for the National Book Award. The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Millers dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. In Show and Tell, John Lahr, probably the most intelligent and insightful writer on theater today (The New York Times Book Review), reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahr's utterly winning and incisive profiles probe some of the most compelling, elusive, and irresistible public personas of our time, among them: Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Wallace Shawn, Arthur Miller, and Neil LaBute. In these, and the moving autobiographical portraits of his father, Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and his mother, a former Ziegfeld girl, Lahr charts the geography of fame.Lahr's gift is to get inside both the art and the artist, to show how the work and the life intersect. He has had unusual access to his subjects who talk to him with rare candor. In prose as lively as good conversation (Robert Brustein), he arrives at truths of uncommon clarity, a claim seconded by Arthur Miller, who said that Lahr's essay on him is by far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read. These very special profiles, the product of eight years' work at The New Yorker, deepen our understanding of their subjects and the culture that they profoundly reflect. Show and Tell, like the icons whose lives and work it so meticulously chronicles, corrupts an audience with pleasure.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Examines the history of modern American show business through the long and glorious career of the author's father - the raucous low-comic star of burlesque, vaudeville, the Broadway revue and musical, Hollywood movies and the legitimate stage.

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