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Conversations with Pinter

By: Harold Pinter,Mel Gussow

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Conversations with Pinter

By: Harold Pinter,Mel Gussow

This book presents a series of interviews with Harold Pinter by drama critic for the New York Times, Mel Gussow, dating back to 1971.

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080213467X

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9780802134677

Gambon

A Life in Acting

By: Mel Gussow

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A unique collection of interviews with Sir Michael Gambon, ranging over thirteen years, offering a fascinating picture of this most mischievously evasive of actors. Michael Gambon was a notoriously private man. Yet this profile of him in his own words - assembled from interviews with drama critic Mel Gussow - offers the most complete portrait in print of an actor who had 'just about everything - enormous power, great depth, absolute expertise and the ability to illuminate a character by the simplest of means' (Harold Pinter). The book also contains interviews with writers, directors and actors who worked with him (Dennis Potter, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Simon Russell Beale, Deborah Warner, Peter Hall and Adrian Noble). 'Gambon emerges from this entertaining book as a master of understatement, but not of underaction... illuminating flashes of what makes an actor tick' Daily Mail 'Book of the Week

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236

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MIT Press

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1854598066

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9781854598066

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

A Biography

By: Mel Gussow

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Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

A Biography

By: Mel Gussow

In 1960, Edward Albee electrified the theater world with the American premiere of The Zoo Story, and followed it two years later with his extraordinary first Broadway play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Proclaimed as the playwright of his generation, he went on to win three Pulitzer Prizes for his searing and innovative plays. Mel Gussow, author, critic, and cultural writer for The New York Times, has known Albee and followed his career since its inception, and in this fascinating biography he creates a compelling firsthand portrait of a complex genius. The book describes Albee's life as the adopted child of rich, unloving parents and covers the highs and lows of his career. A core myth of Albee's life, perpetuated by the playwright, is that The Zoo Story was his first play, written as a thirtieth birthday present to himself. As Gussow relates, Albee has been writing since adolescence, and through close analysis the author traces the genesis of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and other plays. After his early triumphs, Albee endured years of critical neglect and public disfavor. Overcoming artistic and personal difficulties, he returned in 1994 with Three Tall Women. In this prizewinning play he came to terms with the towering figure of his mother, the woman who dominated so much of his early life. With frankness and critical acumen, and drawing on extensive conversations with the playwright, Gussow offers fresh insights into Albee's life. At the same time he provides vivid portraits of Albee's relationships with the people who have been closest to him, including William Flanagan (his first mentor), Thornton Wilder, Richard Barr, John Steinbeck, Alan Schneider, John Gielgud, and his leading ladies, Uta Hagen, Colleen Dewhurst, Irene Worth, Myra Carter, Elaine Stritch, Marian Seldes, and Maggie Smith. And then there are, most famously, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who starred in Mike Nichols's acclaimed film version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The book places Albee in context as a playwright who inspired writers as diverse as John Guare and Sam Shepard, and as a teacher and champion of human rights. Edward Albee: A Singular Journey is rich with colorful details about this uniquely American life. It also contains previously unpublished photographs and letters from and to Albee. It is the essential book about one of the major artists of the American theater.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476711704

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9781476711706

Conversations with Pinter

By: Harold Pinter,Mel Gussow

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Conversations with Pinter

By: Harold Pinter,Mel Gussow

This book presents a series of interviews with Harold Pinter by drama critic for the New York Times, Mel Gussow, dating back to 1971.

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Conversations with and about Beckett

By: Mel Gussow

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Conversations with and about Beckett

By: Mel Gussow

Rounding off the book are interviews with Beckett's chief collaborators and interpreters: among them Bert Lahr, Gogo in the first American Godot; Jack MacGowran and Billie Whitelaw, Beckett's own favorite actors; directors Mike Nichols and Deborah Warner; and Edward Beckett, his nephew and literary executor.

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Grove Press

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0802137652

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9780802137654

Conversations with Miller

By: Mel Gussow,Arthur Miller

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Conversations with Miller

By: Mel Gussow,Arthur Miller

(Applause Books). Conversations with Miller offers a personal and revealing account of one of the major playwrights of our time. Arthur Miller is revealed in deep and candid conversation with the highly regarded dramatic critic, Mel Gussow. In this series of interviews, which took place over 40 years, Miller is astonishingly forthcoming about his creative sources, his accomplishments and his disappointment; about his staunch resistance to the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950's; about his private life including his five-year marriage to Marilyn Monroe. The result is an intimate portrait of a cultural giant who is both refreshingly down to earth and a fiercely original writer and thinker.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557835969

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9781557835963

Theatre on the Edge

New Visions, New Voices

By: Mel Gussow

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Theatre on the Edge

New Visions, New Voices

By: Mel Gussow

(Applause Books). Compiled by Mel Gussow, this collection of sideshow American and international theatre includes: Deeply American Roots (Sam Shepard) * The Man Who Made Theatre Ridiculous (Charles Ludlam) * From the City Streets, a Poet of the Stage (Miguel Pinero) * The Clark Kent of Modern Theatre (Robert Wilson) * Speaks the Language of Illusion (Martha Clarke) * The Lonely World of Displaced Persons (Lanford Wilson) * A Virtuoso Who Specializes in Everything (Michael Gambon) * Actress, Clown, and Social Critic (Whoopi Goldberg) * Comedy, Tragedy and Mystical Fantasy (Peter Brook) * Celebrating the Fallen World (Richard Foreman).

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1557833117

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9781557833112

Broken Dreams

By: Mel Chizedek

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Broken Dreams

By: Mel Chizedek

I am appealing to my Jewish brothers and sisters to help me right some wrongs before we all pay for them. History records how Jews have been persecuted but never really say why. I am telling you why. It is because of the greed of the Jewish power brokers and the discrimination by the rest of us. Here I track a crime family to America and reveal how they took over our money (via the Federal reserve and world banks). They control the media. They control the White House, Congress, and even your life. They assassinated both JFK and RFK, and will kill anyone else who stands up to them. In Oregon, they murdered James Ross and Michael Francke to silence them. That makes me a dead man. I also address Global warming, cosmology, treason, and a lot of other things you thought you knew. This book is enlightening, but it is also shocking. If we sit back and do nothing, we will all pay. History has proven that. Please help.

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Lulu.com

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1304808157

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9781304808158

A Million Miles from Broadway Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Mel Atkey

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A Million Miles from Broadway Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Mel Atkey

Musical theatre is --and always has been-- an international form, not just an American one. It can take root anywhere. Few people would realise that such hit standards as "The Glow Worm", "Brazil", "Mack the Knife", "I Will Wait for You" and "El Condor Pasa" came from foreign language musicals. A Million Miles from Broadway --Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London looks at the history (and future) of work that exists outside of the two traditional centres. Met Atkey has lectured internationally on musical theatre. He is also a composer and lyricist himself. When his musical A Little Princess (written with the late Robert Sickinger) opened, the New York Times praised its "lovely music". His earlier book Broadway North: the Dream of a Canadian Musical Theatre has become the basis for courses taught in Canadian Universities, including Sheridan College, where the international hit musical Come from Away was born. Austrailian TV producer and musical writer Peter Pinne called it "well documented", full of facts, and a compelling read for any musical theatre buff." "--

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0991695747

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9780991695744

Michael Gambon

A Life in Acting

By: Mel Gussow

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Michael Gambon

A Life in Acting

By: Mel Gussow

At the age of 23 and with no formal acting training, Gambon joined England's National Theatre under the artistic directorship of Sir Laurence Olivier. His breakthrough came in 1980 in Brecht's Galileo, followed by a daring King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Company. More recently he has taken the leads in David Hare's Skylight, Caryl Churchill's A Number, and in a notable revival of Pinter's The Caretaker.".

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1557836442

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Theatre on the Edge

New Visions, New Voices

By: Mel Gussow

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New Visions, New Voices

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Conversations with Miller

By: Mel Gussow,Arthur Miller

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By: Mel Gussow,Arthur Miller

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Conversations with and about Beckett

By: Mel Gussow

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Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

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Conversations with Pinter

Conversations with Pinter

Conversations with and about Beckett

Conversations with and about Beckett

Conversations with Miller

Conversations with Miller

Theatre on the Edge

Theatre on the Edge

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams

A Million Miles from Broadway Revised and Expanded Edition

A Million Miles from Broadway Revised and Expanded Edition

Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon

Theatre on the Edge

Theatre on the Edge

Conversations with Miller

Conversations with Miller

Conversations with and about Beckett

Conversations with and about Beckett

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