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Based on a “that can’t actually be true” story, Dead Outlaw is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive new musical about Elmer McCurdy, an early 20th-century outlaw who became a traveling corpse and accidental celebrity. After a botched train robbery and an untimely death, Elmer’s body embarks on a decades-long postmortem adventure—through carnivals, roadside attractions, wax museums, and even a Hollywood film set. Dead Outlaw dives into the absurdity of fame, the inevitability of failure, and the meaning—or utter meaninglessness—of legacy.

You Want to Get Paid for Making People Laugh? Is That Some Kind of Joke? Well—it doesn’t have to be. You can turn your passion for stand-up comedy into a real paycheck—if you know how to do it right. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to turn your side gig into a career, this book is your guide to writing jokes, performing confidently and making real money doing standup. So if you're looking for a stand-up comedy book, in Make Money Being Funny, you’ll discover how to create killer material, master your performance skills, and find paying gigs—all while building your ...

In her Tennessee Williams on the Soviet Stage book, Irene Shaland explores the history and problems involved in staging Tennessee Williams’s works in the Soviet theater. This book has five chapters and discusses 1970s – early 1980s Russian productions of five plays, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Kingdom of Earth, in several Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), and provincial theaters. This production-based study serves as a useful resource to theater historians interested in intercultural interpretations of the great American ...