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Juilliard
Maro Chermayeff, Amy Schewel

Harry N. Abrams, 2003

The Juilliard School is known throughout the world for its training programs in music, dance, and drama. Martha Graham, José Limón, John Houseman, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet taught there. Van Cliburn, Miles Davis, Robin Williams, Kevin Kline, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Leontyne Price are just a few of Juilliard's celebrated students. Now, in this sparkling portrait-conceived as a companion to an ...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (The August Wilson Century Cycle)

6 reviews
August Wilson

Theatre Communications Group, 2008

An understanding of blues and history!
Recognized as a great American playwright with numerous awards, August Wilson has brilliantly chronicled the black experience through decades. Depicting the 1920s, he wrote "Ma Rainey" in 1982. The scene for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", takes place in a recording studio in 1927 where two white music executives are making a record with blues singer, Ma Rainey and a group of musicians. ...

The Modern Drunkard

26 reviews
Frank Kelly Rich

Riverhead Trade, 2005

Counter Oprah's Beach Club Book...
I read this while on vacation at the beach. Please ensure that your cooler is fully stocked prior to cracking the spine. What a great find! This book is too funny for me to do it justice.

Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11

5 reviews
Joan Didion

New York Review Books, 2003

Oh see what we cannot say
What has happened to freedom of speech in America? Why are we not publicly and openly debating the self-serving and undeomocratic policies of the Bush administration? Didion, in another fine essay on American life, asks these questions and tries to answer them. This is a fine book for anyone who worries about our nation proceeding out of control in its war for oil and corporate interests. ...

Women in Love and Other Dramatic Writings: Women in Love, Sissies' Scrapbook, A Minor Dark Age, Just Say No, ...

2 reviews
Larry Kramer

Grove Press, 2003

On becoming a great writer.
"Women In Love" ranks among the finest films from an unrivaled era in screen history. "Faggots" was and remains a seminal American novel, and "The Normal Heart" one of the best and most produced American plays of the twentieth century. This book charts for lovers of great writing exactly how Kramer forged himself into a literary triple threat. It's easy to be distracted by his formidable civic ...

Hirschfeld's New York

2 reviews

Harry N. Abrams, 2001

Genius in a bottle of ink
When my son was seven, he used to eagerly check the arts and leisure section of the Sunday New York Times each weekend to see if there was a new drawing by the "Nina Man". If there was, there would follow an intense exploration of the drawing, usually followed by a crow of delight, "I found the Ninas!" The "Nina Man" is, of course, Al Hirschfeld, still merrily among us at 99, and Nina is the ...

The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History

5 reviews
Mark Danner

New York Review Books, 2006

The mechanisms of manipulation
If you have missed Mark Danner's articles on the Downing Street Memo in _The New York Review of Books_, here is your chance to learn a little more about the beginning of the war and how, in political thinking, the (wished for) effect can precede the (invented) cause. This book is particularly enlightening now, when the withdrawal of the American military from Iraq finally begins to be discussed. ...

Ghost Light

18 reviews
Frank Rich

Random House, 2001

Life begins in the theatre
This is a beautifully written, sensitive memoir of a painful childhood and coming of age. Anyone who has ever listened to the original cast album of a Broadway show and been transported in their mind to a theatre will find a kindred spirit in Frank Rich. Rich grew up in a home which had an abundance of material goods but also contained an abundance of pain. His love of the theatre and some ...

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

144 reviews
Frank Rich

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

A troublesome, truthful 'must read' about the incompetent Bush years.
In this day and age of sanitized/filtered news and monopolized corporate media, it is refreshing to read a 'timeline' book that delineates all the mistakes, bad schemes, and outright lies of 'Bush 2' and company, written by an astute and honest researcher and chronicler. The book presents disturbing fact after fact that should trouble every American, and is not partisan in any way. Republicans, ...

Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, ...

4 reviews

Nation Books, 2002

liberals are inexplicable
This book is intended to show how bad those mean old anti communists were and how noble and heroic the communists were. Except. By showing us the communists themselves, by letting us read their actual words, it is impossible come away with out feeling intense revulsion. These people were unpleasant liars at best, Evil at worst. They condemn themselves. Why anyone thought that printing ...

The Devil Knocks (Jake Strait)

1 review
Frank Rich

Gold Eagle, 2007

The Devil Knocks it almost out of the ball park!
Frank Rich's 2nd volume of Jake Strait is another rousing tale of high-octane adventure in a bleak future. Although not as great as the first, (they rarely are!), still, all in all, there is a solid storyline here. Great characters of all kinds, from Good and Evil, and in between. There is a very strong resemblance here of the main character of Jake Strait to Repairman Jack. If you have ...

Twist Of Cain (Jake Strait)

1 review
Frank Rich

Gold Eagle, 2007

Better that Grisham
You will not find wit like this in many books. Besides the great humor it keeps you going. Rich writes a great detective story via the "1940s" attitude in a cynical future. Rich's characters portray a hedonistic society well.

Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993

6 reviews
Frank Rich

Random House, 1998

Almost as exciting as being there.
This is one of the best purchases I've made in a long while. I sat up way past my bedtime pouring over this wonderful book. Frank Rich became the NY Times Theatre Critic shortly after I began making annual pilgrimages to NYC and staying abreast of what was happening both on and off-Broadway. Consequently, almost every show I've seen over the years is reviewed somewhere in this book. And ...

Falsettos (Drama, Plume)

3 reviews
William Finn, James Lapine

Plume, 1993

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll love it.
This book is the libretto for the musical "Falsettos" which is sung entirely, so unless you have the music, the book is incomplete. But for "Falsettos" lovers this is a must have. The music is a bit confusing with a lot of subtext. The book allows you to analyze each character to find the deeper meaning (and believe me, there is a lot of underlined meaning). The best part of the book is that ...

Explorer's Handbook (Dungeon & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Eberron Supplement)

4 reviews
David Noonan, Rich Burlew, ...

Wizards of the Coast, 2005

Great additional sourcebook, full of good ideas
Well, another Eberron book, and another winner. The artwork in this book is awesome, the cover art, the chapter beginning and pictures throughout are all of consistent high quality. The content seems to be well laid out, however the lack of index in reference books is becoming frustrating. The book contains the following Chapters (you will need the TOC as there is no index...) ...

Day Of Judgment (Jake Strait Series)

1 review
Frank Rich

Gold Eagle, 2007

Mystic Detour in a Binge
I must say I am a great fan of the series and I hesitantly give this book 5 stars since it didn't resonate with me as much as the previous 2 books. However, you still get to witness the solid action of Jake Strait, who's hard drinking and amazing action is a mere sideshow to his own personal discoveries. It does skew to a more mystic side then the previous books, however the ideas of relgion it ...

The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson

1 review
Frank Rich

Knopf, 1987

A little review
This book is a stunning pictorial record of Aronson's life-works. A densely packed book with an interesting narrative supplied by Frank Rich, this is a MUST for Musical Theatre lovers. The final chapters reveal the amazing talent Aronson brought to Sondheim's Golden period. The photographs of the stage design of COMPANY,FOLLIES,A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and PACIFIC OVERTURES are to die for. An ...

Television's Changing Image of American Jews
Neal Gabler, Frank Rich, ...

The American Jewish Committee, 2000

Papers prepared and presented at a 1999 conference organized by the American Jewish Committee, the USC Annenberg School of Communication and the Jewish Television Network to discuss the presentation of Jews in Prime-Time Television.

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