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1) Uncle Vanya
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
Rimas Tuminas' reimagining of Anton Chekhov's tale about broken illusions and dashed hopes is freed from its traditional trappings, leaving behind a battlefield for passions and colliding ambitions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir by the composer, producer, and impresario of some of the most recognized musicals in theater history traces his half-century career, sharing insights into his family, his Oxford education, his creative process, and the events that shaped his characters and productions.
3) House/Lights
Publisher
The Wooster Group
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein's *Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights* with Joseph Mawra's B-movie classic, *Olga's House of Shame*.
4) Summerlost
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief"--
Author
Series
Marty McGuire books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable.
6) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapted from James Patterson's #1 bestselling story, this hilarious and heartwarming graphic novel introduces Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her! With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when it's a bad idea--Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two accomplished storytellers share their expertise on using puppets and props to enhance the art of storytelling. Schroeder Cherry uses several types of puppets to tell his educational story about the Underground Railroad, while Karen Quinn-Wisniewski entertains her audience of young children with classic fables and colorful puppets and props. Interviews with each clips from their performances show you how to use puppets to increase your storytelling...
8) King Lear
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
Yury Butusov's brilliant, award-winning staging of KING LEAR tells us a story in which the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual are all connected to each other. In Shakespeare's classic work, Lear imagined himself to be God's equal - and so he divided his kingdom between his daughters just to see what would happen. Featuring four time Golden Mask Award-winning actor Konstantin Raikin as Lear.
Publisher
The Wooster Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (Phèdre) is The Wooster Group's **OBIE**-winning production of Paul Schmidt's version of Racine's Phèdre, re-set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, and hidden cameras. Winner of 2002 **OBIE** and **BESSIE** awards for Best Production and Best Performer (Kate Valk)! *An "exhilarating dissection of Racine’s tragedy"* - **The New York Times**
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Russian
Description
Rimas Tuminas' adaptation of two novels by Grigory Kanovich, is a dreamy, ruminative, comedic road trip, centering around the parlous fortunes of Eastern European Jews at the start of the 20th century. A period piece that carries a modern conscious, Smile Upon Us, is a Becket-like "Waiting for Jehovah" featuring three towering figures from the Russian stage, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksei Guskov and Vladimir Simonov.
11) Forgiven
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Book 2 in the 5-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.5 million copies
A story of God's divine leading and the realization that peace comes only after forgiveness, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Deadly Accident
The Christian Kids Theater group is devastated by a tragedy greater than...
A story of God's divine leading and the realization that peace comes only after forgiveness, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Deadly Accident
The Christian Kids Theater group is devastated by a tragedy greater than...
13) Far to go
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Margaret Thursday, an orphan, auditions for a role in a play durin g the early twentieth century.Margaret Thursday, the heroine of Thursday's Child, becomes a huge success on the London stage. But her old enemy is close on her heels, determined to carry out her revenge...Margaret felt a glow of excitement as she read the advertisement: Wanted: A clever girl to appear eleven. Appointment, write to Thomas Smith, The Dolphin Theatre. In a trice it was...
15) Stick with me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-olds Izzy and Wren are thrown together by unusual circumstances, they find solace and solutions to nagging problems in their newly-formed friendship.
16) Romeo y Julieta
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Esta, la más importante e inmortal obra de Shakespeare, llega a las más altas cimas de la poesía y de la tragedia. Toda la pieza es un largo dúo de amor cantado con el fondo conflictivo de dos familias rivales –los Montesco y los Capuleto–, donde se combinan la acción dramática con las riñas a espada, el desarrollo azaroso y vivo, el colorido del lenguaje de nobles y plebeyos, lo mundano y lo popular. La muerte de Romeo y Julieta consigue...
17) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Stage Russia
Language
Russian
Description
A spectacular, breathtaking, high-tech musical production based on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. The dramatic and tumultuous love story between the married ANNA KARENINA and a dashing military officer, Alexey Vronsky, takes place amidst the glitter and luxury of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century. The musical’s characters struggle with overwhelming of love and betrayal, passion and duty, hope and desperation. Although...
18) The Seagull
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
Anton Chekhov's first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Treplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who...
19) Richard II
Publisher
Illuminations Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Deborah Warner’s staging of RICHARD II with Fiona Shaw as the king stirred up a significant critical controversy when it was presented in 1995 at the National Theatre, and then later in Salzburg and Paris. Among those who recognised its originality and strengths was the critic Paul Taylor who praised the ‘gripping, lucidly felt production’ and Fiona Shaw’s ‘dazzlingly disconcerting… deliberately uncomfortable, compelling performance.’...
Publisher
Philomath Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Murderers, Fugitives, Thieves...Shakespeare would have loved these guys. Shakespeare Behind Bars is an unexpectedly delightful documentary that follows the casting, rehearsal, and presentation of Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, by convicted felons inside Kentucky's Luther Luckett Correctional Complex. Winner of eight film festival awards, Shakespeare Behind Bars smashes many of our long held notions about prisoners and criminals as we watch these...
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