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The Rest of the Story

A Life Completed

By: Arthur Laurents

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(Applause Books). Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy , Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo . He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter ( The Way We Were ) and stage director ( La Cage aux Folles ). Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading, as unleashed in his lively 2000 autobiography, Original Story By . Laurents passed away early in 2011 but not before writing The Rest of the Story , in which he revealed all that had happened in his life since Original Story By , filled with the wisdom he gained in growing older and a new perspective brought on by Laurents' experience of deep personal loss, including the death of his longtime companion, Tom Hatcher. Laurents' style remains engrossing and brutally honest. His voice is still highly intelligent, loving, generous, and gracious. He remained committed to his artistic vision to the very end, as captured in the epilogue, which he completed only days before his death. The book ends with a loving and insightful coda by Laurent's good friend and the editor of this book, David Saint.

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Applause Theatre & Cinema

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1480302414

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Mainly on Directing

By: Arthur Laurents

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By: Arthur Laurents

From Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter, director—a mesmerizing book about theater, the art, the artist, the insider, the outsider—and the making of two of the greatest musicals of the American stage, West Side Story and Gypsy. It is a book profoundly enriched by the author’s two loves, love for the theater and love for his partner of fifty-two years, Tom Hatcher, who shared and inspired every aspect of his life and his work. Laurents writes about the musicals he directed, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, its producer David Merrick (the “Abominable Showman”), and its (very young) stars Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould . . . He writes about Stephen Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle, which starred Angela Lansbury and Lee Remick, marking the debut for each in musical theater. He summons up the challenges and surprises that came with the making of La Cage aux Folles, the first big Broadway musical that was gay and glad to be. He writes in rich detail about his most recent production of Gypsy, how it began as an act of love, a love that spread through the entire company and resulted in a Gypsy unlike any other. And about his new bilingual production of West Side Story. And he talks, as well, about the works of other directors—Fiddler on the Roof; Kiss Me, Kate; Spring Awakening; Street Scene; The Phantom of the Opera; LoveMusik; Sweeney Todd. Moving, exhilarating, provocative—a portrait of an artist working with other artists; a unique close-up look at today’s American musical theater by a man who’s been at its red-hot center for more than five decades.

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Knopf

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0307273423

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9780307273420

Original Story by

A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

By: Arthur Laurents

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A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

By: Arthur Laurents

The director, screenwriter, and playwright provides a look into his world, introducing the wide array of stars he has met over the years and revealing the hardship and joy that comes with a life in show business.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557834679

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9781557834676

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A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

By: Arthur Laurents

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By: Arthur Laurents

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Home of the Brave

By: Arthur Laurents

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Home of the Brave

By: Arthur Laurents

THE STORY: A group of American soldiers volunteer for a dangerous mission to a Japanese-occupied island. One soldier develops a complex because he convinces himself that he has failed in his duty to a dying buddy. He imagines that being a Jew and t

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822205297

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9780822205296

Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents

By: Arthur Laurents

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Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents

By: Arthur Laurents

If he had done nothing more than write the book for the musicalsWest Side StoryandGypsy, Arthur Laurents would be assured a place in the pantheon of American theater. But he has done much more, including directing, screenwriting, and playwriting. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of seven of Laurents' most acclaimed and challenging plays. It begins withHome of the Brave, the play that launched Laurents' career. This wartime drama known for its frank treatment of anti-Semitism and war trauma remains as potent today as it was when it opened on Broadway in 1945. The anthology continues through some of Laurents' most recent work, including2 Lives, a witty, frequently poignant portrait of an elderly gay couple confronting mortality and coming to terms with their lives. Also included areThe Enclave,Jolson Sings Again,My Good Name,Closing Bell, andAttacks on the Heart. Spanning nearly 60 years and covering a wide variety of topical and emotional terrain, this is an important book from an American theater legend. Includes: •Home of the Brave • The Enclave • Jolson Sings Again • My Good Name • Closing Bell • 2 Lives, and • Attacks on the Heart • The first-ever anthology of plays by a giant of American theater • Each play features a new introduction by the author • Laurents' recent memoir was the most highly accliamed theater memoir in years • A revival ofGypsy, starring Bernadette Peters, is playing to sold-out audiences on Broadway • Author Laurents speaks widely on American theater, always to a packed house • Advertising inBack Stagemagazine

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Back Stage Books

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0823084094

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9780823084098

The Rest of the Story

A Life Completed

By: Arthur Laurents

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A Life Completed

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Applause Theatre & Cinema

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Invitation to a March

A New Comedy

By: Arthur Laurents

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Invitation to a March

A New Comedy

By: Arthur Laurents

THE STORY: George Oppenheimer's brief summation: It skirts about the fairy story of Sleeping Beauty , but never settles for long in one mold. There is social comment on conformity and other failings of our modern civilization; there is satir

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0822205750

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The Enclave

A Play

By: Arthur Laurents

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The Enclave

A Play

By: Arthur Laurents

THE STORY: A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's more attractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse--setting up a sort of urban commune. However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor,

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Mainly on Directing

By: Arthur Laurents

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By: Arthur Laurents

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0307273423

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Home of the Brave

By: Arthur Laurents

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Home of the Brave

By: Arthur Laurents

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West Side Story

A Musical

By: Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents

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West Side Story

A Musical

By: Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents

This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.

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Heinemann

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0435235281

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The Norse Discovery of America

By: Arthur Middleton Reeves

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The Norse Discovery of America

By: Arthur Middleton Reeves

This work brings together for the first time the interpretation of the best authorities respecting the evidences, historical, archaeologic, inscriptive, and deductive, of Norse discovery, occupation, and colonization of America five centuries before the time of Columbus. The subject, though it has engaged in a general way the attention of historians for a long time, has only within recent years been brought into great prominence by a serious study of the Saga writers of Iceland and Scandinavia. The beginning of this interest dates from 1837 in which year was published, by the Royal Danish Society of Northern Antiquaries, a large quarto volume of old Icelandic documents, in which the proofs were set forth that the discovery credited to Columbus was anticipated by sea-roving Norsemen five hundred years earlier. This great work was edited by Prof. C. C. Rafn, founder of the Royal Danish Society, and was the result of painstaking labor and expensive research by that very distinguished antiquarian.

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Simon and Schuster

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1625582072

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Clinical Psychology

Integrating Science and Practice

By: Arthur Freeman,Stephanie H. Felgoise,Denise D. Davis

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Clinical Psychology

Integrating Science and Practice

By: Arthur Freeman,Stephanie H. Felgoise,Denise D. Davis

An accessible introduction to the field of clinical psychology focused on the roles both science and clinical experience play in today's evidence-based practice environment Clinical psychology has been undergoing a revolution--driven by research and the need to identify and develop scientifically proven interventions that improve client care. By the time a student completes his or her graduate work, the field will have evolved even more. With the role of clinical psychologists and the environment in which they work rapidly evolving, the training challenge has never been so great. Thorough and realistic in presentation, Clinical Psychology: Integrating Science and Practice helps students gain the tools they need to become thoughtful and effective clinicians. This accessibly written text provides a foundation of the basics of the psychotherapy process, grounded in an integration of its science, theory, and, ultimately, practice. Filled with case examples that illustrate realistic clinical scenarios, this text offers: * A detailed look at basic clinical tasks and skills that comprise the nuts and bolts of a practitioner's work * Chapters on research, working with cultural diversity, interviewing and assessment, developing evidence-based treatment plans, practicing ethically, and caring for yourself and colleagues * A consistent format in each chapter made up of learning objectives; chapter introductions; orienting headings and subheadings throughout; figures, tables, and boxes; chapter summaries; and helpful chapter appendixes * An online Instructor's Manual featuring chapter-by-chapter quizzes, essay questions, supporting materials, key words, and PowerPoint slides Clinical Psychology: Integrating Science and Practice paints a vivid portrait of the work of the clinical psychologist and uniquely illustrates clinical psychology's richness and historical significance, as well as its leadership in the scientific development of methods and techniques for clinical assessment and intervention.

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0470190558

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9780470190555

A Clearing in the Woods

By: Arthur Laurents

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A Clearing in the Woods

By: Arthur Laurents

THE STORY: A CLEARING IN THE WOODS is in a sense a fantasy--in which a multitude of times and experiences are telescoped into a single moment. The entire life of a young woman is shown during the course of the play. Atkinson, in the New York Time

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