Search Results: Performing Arts from The Owl at the Bridge

NY, Arco, ©1963. Soft Cover. 182 p., illus.; 19 cm. Cover title. Title page continues: "Foreword by Sir Donald Wolfit. Part 1: Acting, by Edwin C. White; pref. by W. J. Mayhead. Part 2: Stage movement, by Marguerite Battye; pref. by Margaret Leighton." Stock#46219. Vg / soft cover.

N.Y., Columbia UP, 1969. Hard Cover. 306 p., illus., 24 cm. Text in English & Japanese. The classic guide to Kabuki theater. Stock#31783. Vg/ no dj.

Cambridge University Press, 1994. Hard Cover. xiii, 287 p. 23.5 cm. Hay divides African American theater into: I. The Black Experience school of drama, and II. The Black Arts school of drama. Stock# 30,039. Vg/ no dj.

N.Y., Dutton, 1990. Hard Cover. xi, 403 p. Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) American Impressionist painter who lived in Paris, and Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) American dancer who lived in Paris went to Egypt: Cassatt in 1911 at the age of 56; Duncan in 1910 at 33. These dual lives are of vastly different women who never met. Stock #26424. Vg dj vg. Women Artists. Dance Painting

Designed & Printed by The Grannis Press... New York] [1901?]. Pamphlet, [8] p., photos; 11.5 x 14.5 cm. "Direct from a New York Run of 100 Nights at Wallack's and the Victoria Theatres." Alice Fischer (later Harcourt), actress and singer, was a native of Terre Haute, Indiana. She moved to New York City, where she organized the Twelfth Night Club, the first all-female theatrical club. This attractive booklet offers review one-liners, four photos from her performance plus a formal bust portrait, and complete cast list. "The Henry B. Harris Company's Enterprises. Mr. Robert Edison in "Soldiers of Fortune"; Miss Alice Fischer in "Mrs. Jack"; Miss Percy Haswell in "A Royal Family"; Miss Elizabeth Tyree in "Gretna Green". Hudson Theatre, 44th Street, near Broadway, New York." Stapled, without covers; enclosed in grey folding envelope stamped in black with front-cover illustration in black & white, 12.5 x 14.5 cm.; folds… Read More

NY, Samuel French [185-?]. Hard Cover. 52 p.; 19 cm. No. XI of The Minor Drama edited by F.C. Wemyss, "With the Stage Business, Cast of Characters, Costumes, Relative Positions Etc. First performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, on Monday, January 13th, 1851." Stock#47870. Vg, a lamp-oil drip obscures some letters on the cover and slightly pages 1-5. In original wrappers.

G. Schirmer, NY [c1918]. Soft Cover. xvi, 65 p., portrait front., diagrams, music; 30.5 cm. Piano Arrangements by Emma Howells Burchenal. "For this first volume of American Folk-Dances I have taken the "contra-dances" of rural New England, for this is one of the old, most truly American sections of our country, where many generations of the same stock have grown up undisturbed[!] by foreign influences, and where sufficient time has elapsed since the days of the early settlers for the building up of certain traditions and customs." 51 dances with diagrams & explications. Contents include alphabetical & classified indexes; Musical Illustrations of the Calls; Longways Dances; Steps; Figures; Circle; The Haymakers; Soldier's Joy; Portland Fancy; Virginia Reel; Devil's Dream; Chase the Squirrel; Old Zip Coon; Pop Goes the Weasel; Maid in the Pump-Room; Chorus Jig; Twin Sisters; Jefferson & Liberty; Hull's Victory; Beaus of Albany; Lady of the Lake; Speed the… Read More

N.Y., Brentanos, 1916. Hard Cover. cxxvii, 224 p. 19 cm. Three plays written in 1912, Pygmalion, starring Mrs. Patrick Campbell, was a success cut shot by thethe outbreak of World War I. As My Fair Lady it made a fortune for the Shaw estate and the British Library. Stock# 34,748. Vg/ no dj.

New York Univ. Press, 1963. series: The Stuart Editions. Hard Cover. Vol. I: Chronology; Every Man in His Humour, Ben Jonson; The Malcontent, John Marston; The White Devil, John Webster; Bussy D'Ambois, George Chapman; Variants; Notes; Selected Bibliography. Vol. II: The Changeling, Thomas Middleton & William Rowley; The Revenger's Tragedy, Cyril Tourneur; The Broken Heart, John Ford; The Lady of Pleasure, James Shirley; Variants; Notes; Selected Bibliography. Two volumes: xxv, 517; xxxviii, 436 p., facsimile title-pages, 23.5 cm.; vol. 1 lacks dj, vol. 2 dj clipped, minor wear; VG+. 32904.

London: Thomas Hailes Lacy [1859]. Soft Cover. 30 p.; 19 cm. "No. 565 Lacy's Acting Edition" --cover. "Altered for provincial representation from Our French Lady’s Maid." "First produced at the Royal Aldelphi Theatre, 1858." Cover includes American agent "Wiley and Halstead 351 Broadway New York", which seems to place this in 1859. Stock#47871. Good+ / soft cover.

NY, Knopf, 1976. Book club edition. Hard Cover. xii, 266, ix p., photos; 24.5 cm. The great ballerina tells of her life on stage--her career revitalized in her forties when Nureyev came to the West--and her private life, married to the love of her youth. Stock# 34,229. Vg/ dj vg.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston [1963]. Soft Cover. 198 p., vocabulary. Text in German, notes in English, for this best known of Fritch's plays. Stock#100733. SAG. Vg, ink owner name; paper..

London, Macmillan, 1991. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 280 p., illus., 23.5 cm. "Self-portrait of a daring and visionary artist." Dancer, choreographer, teacher. Stock# 31,694. Fine/ dj fine.

N.Y., Oxford UP, 1937. Hard Cover. 191 p. 22 cm. By 1937 The Federal Theatre/ Theater Project of the WPA had employed 13,162 actors, musicians, carpenters, electricians and other stage folk and had annoyed an equal number of conservatives who closed the whole thing down. Stock# 30,342. Vg/ no dj.

Providence, Brown University, 1909. Program for the student performance. Soft Cover. 8 pages, illus., 16 x 23.5 cm. Vg. stock#NS310.

N.Y., Hampden/ Booth Theater Library, 1989. Hard Cover. ix, 348 p., [32] pages of plates, 23.5 cm. Established by Edwin Booth and friends, The Players was a gentleman's club intended to raise the status of the much despised acting pofession. Stock# 31,698. Vg/ no slip case.

Philadelphia, U of Pennsylvania, Press,1966. Soft Cover. 143 p., 20.5 cm. First performed in 1622 and first printed in 1653, The Changeling is a powerful psychological drama set in Spain. Stock# 32,232x.Vg/ wrappers

NY, Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Soft Cover. 512 p.; 18 cm. The five plays are Goethe's Egmont, transl. Michael Hamburger; Schiller's Don Carlos, transl. James Kirkup & Mary Stuart, transl. Joseph Mellish & Eric Bentley; Kleist's Penthesilea, transl. Humphrey Trevelyan and The Prince of Homburg, transl. James Kirkup. Cover design by Baskin; "typography by Edward Gorey". Stock#31615 sag. Good+/ soft cover.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Old Orchard House, 1871. One sheet, 24 x 14 cm. Poor Pillicoddy, "a farce in one act" by James Maddison Morton (1811-1891), is here presented in two acts. This copy has names of the five "stars" added in manuscript. Stock#47946. Vg

New York, Harcourt, Brace [1950]. Hard Cover. 190, [2] p. music. 22 cm. Play in verse. "First American edition"--Gallup. First printing. "In all but 'about ten copies (at most)' of the impression pages 35-36 are printed on a cancel leaf which corrects an error in the attribution of the last two speeches on page 35"--Gallup Reissue, with cancel leaf for pages 35-36 (1st impression only). "One-Eyed Riley" (words with melody): p. [192]. Gallup, D.C. T.S. Eliot (1969 ed.), A55b. Stock# 44,560. Good+, bound in black cloth over boards, spine lettered in gold; without dust jacket.