Theatre World Volume 60: 2003-2004 - Hardcover

Willis, John; Hodges, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557836507 ISBN 13: 9781557836502

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2006

Synopsis

(Theatre World). Celebrating its 60th year, this Theatre World remains the authoritative and pictorial record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway seasons and touring companies. Volume 60 features the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 2004 and the Tony Award-winning Best Play, Douglas Wright's I Am My Own Wife , which also earned star Jefferson Mays the Best Leading Actor in a Play Tony Award. Avenue Q , the human-plus-puppet Tony Award winner for Best Musical, made news announcing that it will only play on Broadway and in Las Vegas. Other highlights of the season include the six-time Drama Desk Award-winning blockbuster musical Wicked ; two of Off-Broadway's most successful and acclaimed shows, Bug and Sarah Jone's bridge and tunnel ; and the world premieres of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean , at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Imaginery Friends with Cherry Jones and Swoozie Kurtz, at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. As always, Theatre World 's outstanding features include: An expanded highlights section of professional regional productions from across the U.S.; A listing of all the major theatrical awards; The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway; Biographical data, obituaries, and a comprehensive index.

About this title

About the Author:

Ben Hodges (New York, NY) is the coeditor of The Commercial Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, the editor of Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century and The Play That Changed My Life, The American Theatre Wing Presents The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Most Influenced Them, Outplays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century, and four previous volumes of the Theatre World annual.

Review:

"Nothing brings back a theatrical season better or holds on to it more lovingly than John Willis's Theatre World - an addiction for theatre buffs... indisputably indispensable..." - Playbill"

About this edition

• Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1557836507
• ISBN 13: 9781557836502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368