Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball's entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball began his career as a playwright in New York, and his work soon caught the attention of ......
This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater's history from 1975 through 2020. ......
This is a comprehensive guide to writing the first draft of a feature length screenplay. While it focuses on the college semester (16 Weeks), it is also completely appropriate for anyone attempting to write a screenplay within a timeline. The text breaks down different approaches to designing a screenplay by providing pragmatic guidelines ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975-1989
Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia's Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975-1989
Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia's Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990-2020
Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside's intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990-2020
Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside's intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as ......
In 1952, Charles Schnee won the Best Screenplay Oscar for "The Bad and the Beautiful", the story of a Hollywood producer who is part genius, part louse. Based loosely on "Gone With the Wind" producer David O. Selznick and played by Kirk Douglas, Schnee's protagonist is producer Jonathan Shields, who desperately needs the help of three enemies from ......