Theatre World: Volume 61, 2004-2005: Softcover - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557837031 ISBN 13: 9781557837035

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2007

Synopsis

(Theatre World). Volume 61 features the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 2005, and the Tony Award-winning Best Play, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt , which also earned star Cherry Jones the Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award and the Best Direction of a Play Tony Award for Doug Wright. Kathleen Turner and Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin sparred memorably in the critically acclaimed revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . Spamalot and its director Mike Nichols took home a Tony for Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical respectively for the bonafide Monty Python megahit. Other highlights of the season include the Off-Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee , which would eventually land on Broadway. Regionally, the world premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Tony winners John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz began life at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and transferred successfully to Broadway. The Light in the Piazza , first produced at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle and at the Goodman Th eatre in Chicago, went on to win more Tonys than any other production in 2005 when it arrived at New York's Lincoln Center Theater. Billy Crystal also shone in his one-man Broadway smash 700 Sundays , originally developed at the La Jolla Playhouse. Theatre World's outstanding features include: * A color section of highlights. * A listing of all the major theatrical works * The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway listings. * Biographical data, obituaries, and a comprehensive index.

About this title

About the Author:

John Willis has been editor of Screen World and its companion Theatre World for over forty years. He also presides over the annual Theatre World Awards. Ben Hodges is associate editor and a director, actor, and producer.

Review:

"Nothing brings back a theatrical season 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: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1557837031
• ISBN 13: 9781557837035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384