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 Tales of a Theatrical Guru
Danny Newman
In Tales of a Theatrical Guru, legendary showman Danny Newman brings together thirty-three profiles of key arts people he's known during his amazing career. Ranging from hilarious to somber, these fascinating vignettes and anecdotes provide a backstage pass to insider stories from the dynamo who's kept the American arts thriving and a complete picture of a world that few have ever seen so intimately. Hardcover, 260 pp. $38.00.
 Paul Newman: A Life
Shawn Levy
In Paul Newman: A Life, film critic and pop culture historian Shawn Levy gives readers the ultimate behind-the-scenes examination of the actor's life, from his merry pranks on the set to his lasting romance with Joanne Woodward to the devastating impact of his son's death from a drug overdose. Hardcover, 490 pp. $37.99.
 Olivier
Anthony Holden
In this biography of Laurence Olivier, Anthony Holden creates a witty and penetrating portrait of one of the greatest screen actors of all time. In addition to exposing new revelations that have come to light since Olivier's death, Holden investigatesa the truth behind rumours of Olivier's alleged homosexual affairs with the likes of Marlon Brando and Danny Kaye, for a lonf time covered up by Olivier's family. Hardcover, 515 pp. $35.95.
 Stratford Gold: 50 Years, 50 Stars, 50 Conversations
Richard Ouzounian
This unique book is a collection of interviews with fifty performing artists
who had a unique role in the history of The Stratford Festival. Includes discussions
with such luminaries as: Tom Patterson, Timothy Findley, Christopher Plummer,
Maggie Smith, Zoe Caldwell, Alan Bates, Martha Henry, William Hutt, Peter Ustinov,
William Shatner and others.Statford Gold also features interviews with all
of the surviving Artistic Directors: Michael Langham, Robin Phillips, John
Neville, David William and Richard Monette. Softcover, 397 pp., $18.95.
 Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
Kenneth Turan & Joseph Papp
In this oral history, we see how theatrical visionary Joe Papp overcame myriad obstacles to bring first-rate theatre productions to an urban audience with The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. Here, in all their backstage drama, are the accounts of how such landmark productions as Hair, No Place to Be Somebody, A Chorus Line, That Championship Season, Streamers, for colored girls ... , True West, The Normal Heart, and Aunt Dan and Lemon came into the world. Softcover, 593 pp. $20.00.
 Actor
Nicholas Pennell: Risking Enchantment
Mary Z. Maher
Nicholas Pennell skyrocketed to fame in the BBC's 1967 television serial, The
Forsyte Saga, but was best known as a classical actor at the
Stratford festival. Before his untimely death at the age of 56, he
had played 250 parts in theatre, film, and television. Interviews with
Pennell, as well as with his friends and colleagues, inform this biography,
written with actors in mind and sparkling with Pennell's narrative
gifts and teeming with theatrical advice about performing for the stage
and screen. Softcover, 172 pp. $34.95.
 Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
Antonia Fraser
Based on Fraser's recollections and on diaries she kept since 1968, seven years before they spent the next 33 years together, this is a both a love story and an insightful account of Pinter's process of writing. Softover, $19.95.
 Harold
Prince and the American Musical Theatre
Foster Hirsch
Here is the complete look at the outstanding career of Harold Prince, the most
honoured and influencial producer/director in the history of postwar American
musical theatre. Foster Hirsch has updated the original edition of this book
adding new interviews with Prince. He also analyzes Prince's more recent work,
including Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade,
and the award-winning revival of Show Boat. Softcover, 269
pp. $23.95.
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