![]() ![]() Recorded with the financial assistance of the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Actors Playhouse, New York, N.Y., Mar.Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, Estelle Getty, Paul Joynt, Court Miller, Diane Tarleton.Musical direction and arrangements for International stud, Ned Levy original music for Fugue in a nursery, Ada Janik scenic design, Leon Munier lighting design, Scott Pinkney costume design, Mardi Philips prod.A videorecording of excerpts from the Broadway production of this play, taped at the Little Theatre in June of 1982, is available on NCOX 630.At the peak of her TV fame, Estelle wrote a 1988 autobiography entitled 'If I Knew Then, What I. The movie itself lost much of its impact in its transition from the stage. Anne Bancroft replaced Estelle in the part and she was heartbroken. Three minutes of audio missing from end of International stud (Part 1) When Torch Song Trilogy (1988) was made into a film, actor Fierstein needed star power surrounding him.Gay theater > New York (State) > New York. ![]() Theatrical productions > New York (State) > New York > 1981-1990.Gay men > New York (State) > New York > Drama.Videotaped by The New York Public Librarys Theatre. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.ĭescription 3 videodiscs (DVD) (218 min.) : sd., col. Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, Estelle Getty, Paul Joynt, Court Miller, Diane Tarleton. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Tepper ( Grass ) builds strange rich worlds with distinct cultures breathing their own realities among her many interwoven themes is the relationship between men and women and the societies each dominates. With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women’s Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. For propaganda, they try to lure back from Hobbs Land famous singer Maire Girat, Jeopardy's grandmother, who had fled Voorstod years before. As quarrelsomeness and strife disappear, clear thinking prevails and worship of the new god spreads to other settlements, the fanatic, patriarchal prophets of Voorstod on the planet Ahabar seek to impose their brutal, slave-owning society on the whole system. ![]() The children of the matriarchal Settlement One, including teenagers Jeopardy Wilm and his cousin and sweetheart, Saturday, begin to act strangely they restore an old temple and place a new god inside. On the recently colonized agricultural world of Hobbs Land, the aborigines and their god have died, leaving a few temples and villages. Sure to enhance Tepper's growing reputation, this imaginative novel is set in man's distant future among a number of human cultures inhabiting a distant solar system. ![]() ![]() ![]() At least I still have Asher, with his humor and gentle touch, and finally Knox, my sexy best friend who has no idea he’s breaking my heart.īut when these men become allies in my war against a demonic beast running rampage in town, I’m terrified of what I’m about to lose. With that ripped body of his, it’s me who should be doing the riding. Color me surprised when I find myself with not one, but four men in my life.įirst there’s Ryder, my piece of shit ex-boyfriend whose bad boy ways make me have dirty thoughts, and then there’s the damn cop who’s been riding my case for the last two months. Not when I’m a demon hunter, and my ability to attract Hellish creatures makes it close to impossible to have any semblance of a normal life. Falling for four sexy men is even harder. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I discovered Oliver Jeffers’ books 10 years ago, I hadn’t read a children’s book since my own childhood. Jeffers never shies away from life’s big questions or from an unbelievable premise and it’s his mix of wisdom and humour that has contributed to his success as an author and illustrator. For instance, in This Moose Belongs to Me, the main character, Wilfred, learns that humans cannot really own a wild animal, even if said animal is excellent at providing Wilfred with shelter from the rain. ![]() That’s a line he often walks, perilous as it is, but he maintains it steadily. While wiping away my tears, I thought that the film beautifully demonstrated what I love about Jeffers’ books: they exist in a world that’s cute and whimsical, but also so insightful and filled with occasionally devastating earnestness. Recently I watched Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, an animated film based on Oliver Jeffers’s picture book by the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() I spent five months over an 18,000 word novelette and sold it for $180. I decided that this might be a good way to try to learn to write fiction and get paid a small amount of money at the same time. This was in the great days of the Black Mask (if I may call them great days) and it struck me that some of the writing was pretty forceful and honest, even though it had its crude aspect. ![]() ![]() Wandering up and down the Pacific Coast in an automobile I began to read pulp magazines, because they were cheap enough to throw away and because I never had at any time any taste for the kind of thing which is known as women's magazines. In 1950, Chandler described in a letter to his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, why he began reading pulp magazines and later wrote for them: Chandler's first professional work, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in Black Mask magazine in 1933 his first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939, featuring his famous Philip Marlowe detective character speaking in the first person. Due to his straitened financial circumstances during the Great Depression, Chandler turned to his latent writing talent to earn a living, teaching himself to write pulp fiction by studying the Perry Mason story formula of Erle Stanley Gardner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Juliet dons a mask and dubs herself The Red Whirlwind. During this coup, the heir to the throne, Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet, escapes.įourteen years later, Juliet emerges from hiding with one goal to kill Leontes Montague and end his rule. In the newest salvo of this feud, Leontes Montague leads a bloody coup where he kills all members of the ruling House Capulet. On this continent, two families, the Montagues, and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. ![]() Romeo X Juliet is set on the fantasy floating continent of Neo Verona. Which was also an anime that presented a unique take on a classic literary work. The series was produced by legendary animation company Gonzo who had previously made, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo. Romeo X Juliet was an anime that launched in 2007. However, this is not the only anime to present a unique version of William Shakespeare's plays, and one of the most fascinating takes on the bard's work comes from Romeo X Juliet. Requiem Of The Rose King is based on two of Shakespeare's plays, Henry VI, Part 3, and Richard III. And now, the anime version produced by J.C.Staff allows more people to enjoy its unique take on Shakespeare. ![]() Requiem Of The Rose Kinghas been a cult-favorite manga ever since it launched in 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like all the best ideas, her doughnut model seems so simple and obvious that you wonder why you didn’t think of it yourself. As George Monbiot, reviewing the book in The Guardian, has remarked: Her attempt at an answer is encapsulated in a diagram that looks just like a doughnut (hence the name), which brilliantly brings together developmental and environmental issues – often seen as being in opposition to each other – into a single, accessible picture. How can we ensure that every human being has the resources they need to meet their human rights – but that collectively we do it within the means of this planet? Her basic question, which she succinctly posits in a talk given in 2014 at the Royal Society of Arts is: She has also been a senior researcher at Oxfam and a co-author of the United Nations Human Development Report. Her impressive CV includes academic posts in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as stints ‘in the field’ in Zanzibar. ![]() Its author, Dr Kate Raworth, is an economist, ecologist, social activist and – above all – a humanitarian, who has a vision that encompasses all these disciplines. But it accompanied me on several journeys around the Mediterranean in the six months since it was published in the UK last spring, and kept me enthralled through heat waves and sandstorms. ![]() Doughnut Economics may not be everybody’s idea of a good holiday read. ![]() ![]() Macey found herself looking at it as a Gallagher Girl. So Macey decided not to look at the room as the daughter of a senator and a cosmetics heiress. The same stories and canapés and people pretending they were there for charity and not just for a picture in the gossip columns on Page Six. The same old men flirting with the same young women. Sure, the Calloway Ball was supposed to be the charity event of the season, but before Macey had even entered the ballroom, she already knew precisely what she was going to find. ![]() But as Macey followed her father and mother out of the gleaming elevator and into the towering ballroom, she wasn’t exactly in the mood. ![]() SITUATED ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE with a glorious view of the park, the Athenia Hotel was supposed to be some kind of Olympus, high in the clouds above the mere mortals, a place for playing and drinking and dancing like gods. ![]() ![]() ![]() The black and white ghosts of racial genocide are palpable forces in the play – perhaps too palpable in Lloyd Richards’s staging, which employs hokey horror-movie sound and pictorial effects before arriving at its truly supernatural final curtain. 1996 Emmy Award Outstanding Television Movie or Mini-Series Yale Repertory Theatre: 1987.1995 Emmy Award Outstanding Made for Television Movie.1990 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play.1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.Notable productions in The Piano Lesson‘s history, along with cast lists, reviews, and images, are below. It premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT, on November 26, 1987. The Piano Lesson was initially presented as a staged reading at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 1987 National Playwrights Conference as the fourth play in Wilson’s The Pittsburgh Cycle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a child Elizabeth fell from a carriage, the head injury and subsequent memory loss leaving her vulnerable to an entity referred to throughout the book as Perse. Once he's arrived on the island (one of the Florida keys) hoping relocation will assist his recovery, it's not long before Edgar encounters Wireman, carer for Elizabeth Eastlake, the sole survivor of a wealthy family who inhabited the island in the early years of the 20th century. Duma Key could have been called Shit Happens You are absolutely not allowed to blame anyone - not his wife for leaving him, or the biting ghosts he encounters on the island of the novel's title, because it's just not their fault. ![]() Liking people is a big deal in this book. Told in flashback, the incident kick-starts the book like an over-zealous Health & Safety manifesto, but also serves effectively to make you rather like Edgar. He was a contented construction company CEO who still worked on site until one day his truck was crumpled by a reversing crane with a broken beeper. Joining a long list of troubled Stephen King protagonists with paranormal powers, Edgar Freemantle is the limping, crutch-dependent, one-armed, memory-addled survivor of a near- fatal crash. ![]() |