English Theater

Alex/Xeal tried to let things come to him and in doing so things escalated quickly almost ending in disaster for him. Now it’s time for him to make his will known and assert himself on those who wish to assert themselves on him. As forces from both reality and Eternal Dominion try to manipulate Alex/Xeal for their own designs, will he succeed, or will he find himself overwhelmed and bogged down by the plans of others?

Anna, a total theater kid, is less pretty and popular than her lookalike twin, Katie, but she doesn't let that get her down. She has two goals for junior year: she wants to become a major player in her high school's drama department, and she wants her best friend to become her boyfriend. And then an accident changes everything. She's sidelined from acting, and she seems to be losing the guy she's crushing on. What's more, this whack dude from her past--someone she'd like to keep her distance from--keeps trying to reconnect. Anna may have to rethink the role of "Anna." Maybe it's time she ...

Double, double, bard in trouble. Mob will catch him in a couple... Okay, the mobsters looking for Daniel still hadn't found him. That was the good news. Bad news? The net was tightening - and Daniel was running out of places to hide inside the Dawnlight Forest in the World of Chains. His skills and achievements as a bard did not help avoid attention - quite the opposite, in fact.

Cut on the Bias A Thread & Tangle Mystery – Book Two By M.C. Needleton In Ivy Ridge, cutting corners can be dangerous… but cutting on the bias just might be deadly. Quilt shop owner Everly Faye Galloway is back — needle in hand and intuition fully threaded — just in time for Ivy Ridge’s biggest (and most chaotic) event of the year: the high school’s spring musical. When the beloved drama teacher, Zayla Tene, commissions Everly to design custom quilted props for the production of Little Women, Everly expects nothing more than long nights of stitching, backstage gossip, and the ...

Out in the Spotlight: Broadway Musicals and the LGBTQ+ Community Broadway has always been a stage for transformation, but for the LGBTQ+ community, it has been a sanctuary for self-expression, a space to challenge societal norms, and a platform for voices that were often silenced. Out in the Spotlight delves deep into the evolution of LGBTQ+ representation in musical theater, from subtle subtext and coded messages to the bold, unapologetic stories we see today. Written by a lifelong theater lover and accomplished musician, this book offers an insider’s look at the intersection of Broadway...

After losing her husband and dance partner to a motorcycle accident, ballroom showdance champion Arabelle has developed a hand tremor, making it impossible to perform the beautiful balletic feats she is known for. In her devastation, she’s lost her love of dance anyway. But when she meets Jett, a theatrical dancer specializing in daredevil aerial stunts, Arabelle feels a double tremor – one producing trepidation, the other pulsing excitement, as he evokes the bad boy ways of her husband that had so enthralled her but had also resulted in his tragedy. Can Jett help Arabelle overcome the ...

Shep Carson is recovering at home and he takes Cody deeper into the BDSM lifestyle. Meanwhile, they're getting ready for the Christmas show. There's a mix up with two very important Christmas gifts and a proposal is in the air. The question is, who is proposing to who?

A photo of his father as a younger man holding a little girl when no sister that he knew existed. Anamolies about his father's separation papers from WWII. Inconsistencies in what his father told them about his experiences in the China, Burma, and India theater, and other effects from that time. Who was his father, really? What happened in Burma in WWII that would explain all this, and why was it pointing to treason in high places?

The Partnership is the first book to tell the full story of Brecht and Weill's impulsive, combustible partnership, the compelling psychological drama of one of the most important creative collaborations of the past century. It is also the first book to give full credit where it is richly due to the three women whose creative gifts contributed enormously to their masterworks.

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 ...

With the defeat of the Elemental, Arbor should be hailed as a hero. Instead, he is shunned, turned away from the Defiants by those seeking power and fearing his own. Having little choice, Arbor sets out with his force of gremlins toward the slave city of Fivora in hopes of finally being reunited with his sister. Meanwhile, strange things are happening in the elven capital of Srila. An Infiltrator is stalking the streets and leaving death in its wake. However, the Infiltrator isn’t the only one with its sights set on the elven homeland.

In this audio-original production, author Richard Fawkes traces the development of the musical, highlighting composers and lyricists including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim. Presented by the vivacious singer Kim Criswell, star of Cats, and including nearly 100 famous musical extracts.

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey into the world of theatre production? The stage is set for you to tap into your creative spirit and drive like never before. Introducing "PRODUCING MADE SIMPLE," a comprehensive guide tailor-made for aspiring producers, writers, actors, and seasoned professionals alike. Dive into a treasure trove of essential methods that empower you to efficiently produce captivating small to medium-sized stage productions. This is your opportunity to breathe life into the artist community and invigorate the theatre scene. Discover professional producing ...

In Take You Wherever You Go, Kenny Leon reflects on the pillars of wisdom he learned every step of the way from the most important people in his life - from his grandmother's sagacious and encouraging motivations to the steady hand of his mother to the deep artistic and social influence of iconic American playwright August Wilson. Take You Wherever You Go is a poignant, ruminative, and inspirational memoir that empowers you to be true to yourself as you navigate your own path.

For her birthday, Abi treats herself to a hot, sexy adventure at a local adult video store/theater - arranging to meet her husband, Cole there, although he is to be there as an anonymous voyeur only. There, she meets Jack and has some incredibly sexy fun entertaining other guys in the glory holes before indulging in an unbelievably hot DP three-way with Jack and a huge, black BBC guy. An incredible 8,400 word story featuring sizzling FMF and public exhibitionism as we join Abi and her husband Cole on their amazinng adult theater experience.

When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middle class youth, what he longed for wasn't so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris.

A gut-wrenching, scared-as-hell story of a group of World War II college-age kids who flew B-25 Bombers in the South Pacific by the seat of their pants and wreaked havoc on Japanese military aspirations. Nine out of ten from the 345th Bomb Group didn't make it back. In 1945, just before the end of World War II, First Lieutenant Blount participated in the attack of the Japanese cargo ship Kanju Maru at Saigon.

In the world of Fringe (or off-off-Broadway) theatre, a strong debate has been raging for years - when you're producing a low/no-budget production, how on earth can you make it happen and still treat everyone involved in an open, honest, and ethical manner? Open Book Theatre Management is the first audiobook ever to show you exactly how to mount a theatre production without losing either your integrity or your shirt.

When a story resonates with audiences generation after generation, it reaches “classic” status. Francis Ford Coppola saw that potential in S. E. Hinton’s novel about two rival groups in 1960s Tulsa and knew it was meant for the silver screen. Now, in this definitive oral history, we’re given a rare glimpse into the filmmaking process: How Coppola’s team recruited unknown actors destined to become household names. How a film that could have easily been shot in a Hollywood studio was instead produced on location where the original novel was set.

Ben is having a difficult week. After five whole years of “drinking from Mommy’s boobies”, he suddenly has to step aside for his new baby sister, Beatrice, who may or may not be human. Mommy says he has to “support her appearance no matter how humiliating it is for us as family”, but that’s hard to do when your sister has branches for arms and legs.