Die intelligente Komödie "Idothea", die mitten im Zweiten Weltkrieg am Berliner Deutschen Theater aufgeführt wurde, wurde bereits nach wenigen Wochen des Erfolgs als regimekritisch verboten.
'Reveals the stories and the people behind your favourite film scores' - Nick de Semlyen, editor of Empire'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' - Richard AyoadeHow can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air?
Der erste Teil der dreiteiligen Autobiographie einer zu Unrecht lange vergessenen Schriftstellerin, die nichts im Leben ausgelassen hat: Ball-Hennings beschreibt ihre Kindheit in Flensburg als Tochter eines Seemannes.
Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as Norma Desmond in Billy Wilders noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdoms leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B.
Auf kafkaeske Art und Weise erzählt "Erstes Leid" die Geschichte eines alternden Trapezkünstlers im Variete, der sein Trapez unter der Kuppel des Theaters nicht mehr verlassen möchte.
Heinrich Manns Drama über das Schicksal einer erfolgreichen Schauspielerin:Die Protagonistin Leonie ist auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Karriere und führt keineswegs das prekäre Künstlerleben, das man erwarten würde.
En Las doce vidas de Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explora el fenómeno de Hitchcock a partir de doce aspectos de la vida del genial director, con el fin de proporcionar una biografía enriquecida, no lineal pero dotada de sentidos y conexiones hasta ahora inexplorados.
Passats deu anys de la seva mort (i cinquanta de la seva participació a Eurovisión), la projecció de Peret com a Rei de la Rumba no perd ni un bri de la seva singular grandesa, i així es pot veure en aquesta biografia, escrita amb el cor per Rogeli Herrero, un dels membres de Los Manolos.
*One of Stylist's top ten fiction books to look out for in 2026 and an Apple Best Book of February*SUPERFAN is a dark, addictive novel about K-pop fandom, obsession, and the dangerous illusion of being seen.
Today, as one of the most prolific directors/producers of event television, Margolis is not only a technical ringmaster but also a confidante and sage to the stars who headline the shows.
This delightfully overstuffed fact book dives into the world of Ser Duncan the Tall - Westeros's most earnest, well meaning, and occasionally accident prone knight - and his squire Egg, who is absolutely not hiding anything suspicious under that bald little head of his.
A brave and intelligent book Daily TelegraphAn unforgettable memoir about gender, journeys and enduring friendshipFor years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew.
'A rollicking good time: this is royal memoir by way of Jilly Cooper' - Daily TelegraphFrom much-loved West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall, The Showgirl and the Prince is a funny, honest and touching real-life Cinderella story - if Cinders is a lycra-clad chorus girl from Bromley who drinks and smokes too much.
Advance your playwriting ideas from concept to production Playwriting For Dummies brings clarity, inspiration, practical know-how, and fun to every stage of your playwriting journey.
The name John Lennon immediately conjures up thoughts and images of the iconic sixties band 'The Beatles', the 'Let It Be' roof top concert, a pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road Studios, a white room, the song 'Imagine' and Yoko Ono.
From Philip Henslowe to David Merrick, the producer or theatre manager has generally been seen as a combination of Shylock and Simon Legree, usurer and slavedriver, wholly concerned with profit and loss, indifferent to art and artists.
One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener.
This work explains how and why Japan supports a community of professional dancers, musicians, production companies, and visual artists that has nearly tripled in size during the past 25 years.
Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
A pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important directors in the history of the American stage.
Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers.
This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England.
This book, a companion to the author's Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask (Princeton, 1978), provides a detailed history of nineteenth-century French pantomime, from the feeries of Jean-Gaspard Deburau at the Theatre des Funambules to the cabaret entertainments of Georges Wague at the height of la Belle Epoque.
Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "e;comic"e; and "e;tragic"e; is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization.
