Theater Biographies

¿Cuáles son las cualidades de un superhéroe? Con esta divertida historia musical te darás cuenta de que no hace falta volar para ayudar a la gente y hacer un mundo de paz. ¡Todos podemos ser mucho más!

The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness - from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life.

Amanda Vaill, Jerome Robbins biographer and authority, drawing on the vast and closely held Robbins archives, has put together a selection of his writings, giving us a sense of his extraordinary range as a thinker and artist, as well as a surprising and revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant.

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.

Was murder part of the game? Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood - and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well-known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life - and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates. To intensify their bond, Seth lured Kat into a world of violent sex and role-playing, where she was his slave. Enter Lizzi Marriott, the new girl in town. And when she accepts an invitation to Kat and Seth's apartment....

Ein berührendes, persönliches Dokument, nach der Bühnenfassung von Chris Pichler...

The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, but with similar passion, Orville and Spencer's stories span virtually every major abolitionist event: from the battles of Bleeding Kansas and the establishment of the free-soil movement to the river wars of Memphis, Vicksburg, and Shiloh. Listeners will follow Orville west as he strikes out for Kansas Territory to help ensure its entry as a free state.

Norman Mathews was born in the wrong town, the wrong era, and with the wrong name. What’s a boy to do? He conjured up a more enticing, imaginary world to better navigate the perils of childhood. Dreams of a life in the theater and of passionate romance were stymied by lack of self-assurance.

Люди театра - мемуары Владимира Алексеевича Гиляровского, русского писателя, поэта, журналиста.

Luise Lunow ist Schauspielerin. Sie erzählt in ihrem Hörbuch "Auch eine Rosine hat noch Saft" in ernsten und heiteren Episoden aus ihrem ereignisreichen, spannenden 80-jährigen Leben. In Babelsberg geboren, erlebte sie den Bomben-Krieg und den Hunger der Nachkriegszeit, pendelte täglich zwischen Ost- und Westberlin, erfüllte sich ohne Geld und fremde Hilfe ihren großen Wunsch, Theater zu spielen, arbeitete mit interessanten Kollegen und Regisseuren und lieh als Synchronsprecherin ihre markante Stimme vielen ausländischen Schauspielerinnen.

Offen, ehrlich und persönlich: Schauspieler und Musiker Volker Lechtenbrink erzählt in seiner Biografie die Geschichte eines bewegten Lebens. Das künstlerische Multitalent Lechtenbrink berichtet von seinen Anfängen am Hamburger Theater und prägenden Begegnungen mit Größen der Schauspiel- und Musikszene. Berufliche Erfolge, private Höhen und Tiefen und vieles mehr - Lechtenbrink gewährt seinen Lesern mit einem Augenzwinkern brandneue Einblicke in seinen Werdegang zu einem der bekanntesten Schauspieler Deutschlands.

Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. The reasons behind this escalating violence and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation is the subject of this important new book. The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and antidepressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games.

Theatre journalist Eddie Shapiro sits down for intimate, career-encompassing conversations with 19 of Broadway's most prolific and fascinating leading men. Full of detailed stories and reflections, his conversations with such luminaries as Joel Grey, Ben Vareen, Norm Lewis, Gavin Creel, Cheyenne Jackson, Jonathan Groff, and a host of others dig deep into each actor's career; together, these chapters tell the story of what it means to be a leading man on Broadway over the past 50 years.