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61) Theater Work
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
Deutsch
Description
From May to October 1974, Peter Voigt filmed at the Berliner Ensemble (BE) during the 25th anniversary of the theater’s founding. Voigt, a member of the BE himself in the 1950s, interviewed theater technicians who had been part of the world-famous ensemble for decades. Sharing experiences, memories and impressions from their particular point of view, they paint an intriguing picture of the theater’s history. This documentary, originally shot on...
62) Spettacolo
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Italiano
Description
Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their issues – they turned their lives into a play. Every summer, their piazza became their stage and residents of all ages played a part – the role of themselves. Monticchiello’s annual tradition has attracted worldwide attention and kept the town together for 50 years. But with an aging population and a future generation more interested in...
63) Stages
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Stages is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. In New York City's oldest community center, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, identity, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by the...
64) Kate in waiting
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship.
65) Melissa
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Knowing herself to be a girl despite her outwardly male appearance, George is denied a female role in the class play before teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self.
"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY...
Author
Series
Two dogs in a trench coat volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their boy, Stewart, gets involved in a school play and begins to act in an evil manner, Sassy and Waldo fear he will remain evil forever.
67) Kings of Baxter
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this moving documentary, one of Australia’s leading theatre companies, Bell Shakespeare, enters one of the country’s largest juvenile justice centres. KINGS OF BAXTER explores the challenging and emotional journey of the young offenders and their teachers as they attempt to stage a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for their families and fellow inmates. Winner of the Festival Prize for Best Australian Documentary and the Audience Choice...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While staying in post-World War II Paris with her grandfather, Tabitha Knight becomes friends with her neighbor and fellow American, Julia Child, and must clear both their names when a woman they both knew is murdered with a knife from Julia's kitchen and a note from Tabitha in her pocket.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 25
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.
74) Love, Lucy
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After accepting a trip to Europe as a bribe from her parents to attend the college of their choice as a business major, seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers she is unwilling to give up her dream of being an actress--or Jesse, the boy she met in Italy.
Series
Barry volume 1
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Open the door....Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place...
78) Cymbeline
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As tryouts for the school musical begin, Babymouse takes the starring role in several imaginary Broadway productions, which also feature her debonair new classmate, Henry the hedgehog.
80) Around the block
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Christina Ricci stars in director Sarah Spillane’s inspirational drama, a world premiere at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. With encouragement from a drama teacher (Christina Ricci), a teen in Sydney, Australia (Hunter Page-Lochard) confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future. AROUND THE BLOCK is about breaking cycles and building dreams. Set in a contemporary, tough, inner-city precinct, this is a story of revenge and triumph,...
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