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Hardcover:
9780393246407 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 21, 2015, cover price $29.95
Paperback:
9780393353235 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 13, 2016), cover price $18.95
Hardcover:
9780394501536 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1978, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Reconstructs the life and death of the British comic playwright often considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward--who was murdered by his homosexual lover at the age of thirty-four
Paperback:
9781504031479 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media, March 1, 2016), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: ohn Lahr (b.
9780520226661 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $26.95
9780394753058 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Profiles Joe Orton, the New Wave comic playwright who was brutally murdered by his homosexual lover in 1967
9780879100575 | Limelight Editions, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reconstructs the life and death of the British comic playwright often considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward--who was murdered by his homosexual lover at the age of thirty-four
Hardcover:
9781408843659 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, September 25, 2014, cover price $49.10 | also contains Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
9780393021240 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 22, 2014, cover price $39.95
Paperback:
9780393351651 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 21, 2015), cover price $19.95 | also contains Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
9781408831458 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 7, 2015, cover price $24.15 | also contains Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Hardcover:
9781408843659 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, September 25, 2014, cover price $49.10 | also contains Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Paperback:
9780393351651 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 21, 2015), cover price $19.95 | also contains Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
9781408831458 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 7, 2015, cover price $24.15 | also contains Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
CD/Spoken Word:
9781491519738 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 22, 2014), cover price $14.99
9781491519691 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 22, 2014), cover price $32.99
9781491519707 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 22, 2014), cover price $39.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781491519721 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 22, 2014), cover price $89.97 | About this edition: The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.
Hardcover:
9780810972889, titled "Performance: Richard Avedon" | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2008, cover price $120.00
Paperback:
9781593762018 | Revised edition (Soft Skull Pr, September 1, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Love All the People, a collection of controversial comedian Bill Hicks’ stand-up routines, notebooks, journals, and letters, traces his evolution from brilliant conventional stand-up to something far more interesting and dangerous: a comic speaking without fear.
A richly illustration of the life work of one of the twentieth century's most gifted lyricists showcases some 186 of Harburg's most memorable song lyrics, including 'Over the Rainbow,' 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime,' 'April in Paris,' 'Thrill Me,' 'I Like the Likes of You,' and other notable works, all accompanied by thirty songs on CD.
Hardcover:
9781585674237 | Overlook Pr, December 30, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A richly illustration of the life work of one of the twentieth century's most gifted lyricists showcases some 186 of Harburg's most memorable song lyrics, including 'Over the Rainbow,' 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime,' 'April in Paris,' 'Thrill Me,' 'I Like the Likes of You,' and other notable works, all accompanied by thirty songs on CD.
Paperback:
9781585677863 | Overlook Pr, August 29, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Honky Tonk Parade" illuminates some of the most compelling, elusive and important artists of our time, who talk to Lahr with rare candour.
Hardcover:
9781585677030 | Overlook Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays about some of the modern world's most provocative cultural icons is a compendium of celebrity profiles, anecdotes, and observations about such figures as Dame Edna, Cole Porter, and Laurence Fishburne.
An exceptional assortment of two hundred duotone photographs by the legendary theatrical photographer Eileen Darby captures the luminaries of Broadway during its golden era from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, capturing the theatrical world, both onstage and backstage, in portraits of Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck, Lucille Ball, and Katharine Hepburn, among others.
Hardcover:
9780821228975 | Bulfinch Pr, May 24, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An exceptional assortment of two hundred duotone photographs by the legendary theatrical photographer Eileen Darby captures the luminaries of Broadway during its golden era from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, capturing the theatrical world, both onstage and backstage, in portraits of Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck, Lucille Ball, and Katharine Hepburn, among others.
Paperback:
9781932360653 | Soft Skull Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of humor from the scathing comic who was banned from the Letterman show and died prematurely of pancreatic cancer at age thirty-two culls his diaries, stand-up routines, notebooks, letters, and final writings for edgy material on everything from the cult of celebrity to the Gulf War.
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9780747558309 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, July 8, 2002, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: In these incisive, often moving portraits John Lahr charts the geography of fame with the gift of revealing both the art and the artist, uncovering how life and work intersect.
Hardcover:
9781585670628 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The renowned literary critic shares his profiles of Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Arthur Miller, and Wallace Shawn, among other cultural icons.
Paperback:
9780520233775 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2002), cover price $29.95
Hardcover:
9780413468406 | Methuen, March 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the theatrical career of the English author, Noel Coward, and analyzes the social satire in his major plays
Paperback:
9780520234147, titled "Coward the Playwright" | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $34.95
9780380646838, titled "Coward the Playwright" | Reprint edition (Avon Books, September 1, 1983), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of the theatrical career of the English author, Noel Coward, and analyzes the social satire in his major plays
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Paperback:
9780520223042 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $27.95
Hardcover:
9780374134563 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Journeys backstage with Barry Humphries to watch the clown transform himself into Dame Edna Everage, the weird and wonderful housewife-superstar whose comedy act reigns supreme in England
Paperback:
9780756766207 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: John Lahr is one of the most celebrated critics of the performing arts.
Paperback:
9780520223059 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: John Lahr is one of the most celebrated critics of the performing arts.
Product Description: "I am a symmetrical man, almost to a fault," Frank Sinatra once said. It is a peculiar statement, because Sinatra is precisely asymmetrical. How to reconcile the enchanting crooner and the explosive bully? What to make of the smooth tones of his voice and the rough edges of his persona? To find the true correspondence between the public and the private Sinatra, the artist and the man, is no easy task...read more
Hardcover:
9780517288894 | Macmillan Pub Co, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "I am a symmetrical man, almost to a fault," Frank Sinatra once said.
Hardcover:
9780375501449 | Random House Inc, January 1, 1998, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the singer and actor, contrasting his personal and professional images
Hardcover:
9780385315463 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, March 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The theater critic offers his impressions of twentieth-century theater, including significant productions and the contributions made by dramatists and performers
Paperback:
9780385315500 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The theater critic offers his impressions of twentieth-century theater, including significant productions and the contributions made by dramatists and performers
Paperback:
9780306807336 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, August 21, 1996), cover price $18.00
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9780749321833 | Rbhp Trade Group, December 1, 1995, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era.
Paperback:
9780879101305 | Reprint edition (Limelight Editions, October 1, 1989), cover price $12.95
Paperback:
9780879101244 | Limelight Editions, May 1, 1989, cover price $7.95
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