Climate Presents Mona Rogers in Person. Promotional Show Pamphlet

San Francisco, Climate Theater, Publisher. Unbound. no date, perhaps circa 1990. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches, folded in thirds. Printed on both sides. One side features a full page photo of Helen Shumaker as Mona Rogers, with the other side providing a sequence of events, author's notes and biographies of Helen Shumaker and playwright Philip-Dmitri Galas. Mona Rogers in Person was a successful one person play written by Galas, featuring a woman who wants to negate her existence until she becomes a photograph. The play was very successful and popular, staged many times in San Francisco and elsewhere. Galas was an award winning playwright known for his avant garde works that often seemed like contemporary vaudeville. Shumaker appeared in a variety of his works, as well as other work, receiving awards for her performance as Mona Rogers. GOOD condition. Minor wrinkling and creasing. A few faint spots of staining to the front panel. Good .

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Book number: 020307

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn Performing Arts Fliers

Myron. A Fairy Tale in Black and White Performance Flyer

West Hollywood, CA, St. Genesius Theatre, Publisher, 1993. Unbound. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. With a small photo of the cast members. A flyer for an early production of Myron, when it had just moved from Santa Monica to West Hollywood. Written by Michael Kearns, the play is in some senses a modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, using a writer dying from AIDS as the means through which a romance ala de Bergerac, blossoms. GOOD condition. Several small tears along the extremities. Many wrinkles and creases. Minor toning. Good .

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Book number: 020426

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn gay/lesbian Studies Performing Arts LGBTQ+

Tallulah Bankhead in Noel Coward's "Private Lives. " Beginning July 22, 1946. Colonial Theatre, Boston Playbill

No Place, No Publisher. Wraps. No publisher, place or date. Presumed Boston, 1946. Photo illustrated wraps with Tallulah Bankhead on the front cover. Unpaginated. Ads throughout. Playbill for this revival staging of the play Private Lives by Noel Coward. The play originally premiered in the UK in 1930, and starred Noel Coward. It also had a brief run on Broadway, with Noel Coward, prior to the 1948 Broadway run that starred Tallulah Bankhead. Usual playbill fare, being mostly ads, with some biographies of the stars. GOOD condition. Wrappers toned and wrinkled, with a few small dampstains. Minor creasing present. Good .

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Book number: 019594

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn

Women Behind Bars Theater Program for a Performance at the Pilgrim House, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Circa 1985

Provincetown, No publisher. Unbound. Women Behind Bars Theater Program for a Performance at the Pilgrim House, Provincetown, Massachusetts, circa 1985. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. The program mostly lists the cast, including bios. The cast includes the comedian Lea DeLaria (who would go on to act in Orange is the New Black, among many other film, theater and television roles. Also listed are Clarice LaVerne Thompson, Pat McGrath, Tsilke Pearlman, Jeanine Strobel, Carol Dorn, Virginia Rubino and Bunny Pearlman. Women Behind Bars was written by Tom Eyers, created as a black comedy satirizing the prison exploitation films of the 1950s. GOOD condition. Moderate uneven toning, some soiling and minor staining to the piece. Some wrinkling and creasing. Good .

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Book number: 020365

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn Performing Arts

No Author

Dramatic Table Talk or Scenes, Situations and Adventures, Serious and Comic, in Theatrical History and Biography. In Three Volumes

London, John Knight and Henry Lacey, 1825. Half Leather. Greenish morocco half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Li, Xiii, 248; x, 288; ix, 317 pp. LACKING the illustration of the Old Drury Lane Theatre, a portrait of Shakespeare and an original letter of Sheridan in volume 3 (although this may be bound in at the end of volume 2). All other illustrations present as called for, with the frontis illustrations in volumes 1 and 2 bound in a bit further on. A collection of short anecdotes reflecting on the history or theater, commenting on notable actors, playwrights, plays, performances, etc. from ancient to the then present. With commentary on Shakespeare, brief mention of American theater, Harry Rowe, John Palmer, a riot at the Haymarket Theater, Chinese play, customs of the French theater, Charlotte Cibber, etc. GOOD condition, lacking the aforementioned plates. Leather rather scuffed along the hinges, with minor scuffing along the extremities and to the covers. Minor fading. Interiors solid, with some toning and scattered foxing, a bit heavier to the title pages and plates. A few pages cropped a bit shorter than others. Armorial bookplates of Roderick Terry present in each volume. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008470

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn Performing Arts

Various Authors

The Stage. March 1933

New York, John Hanrahan, Publisher, 1933. Wraps. Red illustrated wraps. Folio. Color illustration of Lynn Fontanne on the front cover, by Fred Wallace. An issue of this magazine devoted to theater, featuring articles on various dramas, including American Dream, with photos of Douglass Montgomery. With pieces on Alien Corn, Melody, We the People and others. GOOD condition. General fading, minor toning, some soiling, light spots of staining and creasing/scuffing to the covers and extremities. Minor toning in the interior. Good .

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Book number: 015125

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn Performing Arts

Various authors

Theatre Arts Monthly. April, 1933

New York, Theatre Arts Inc, 1933. Wraps. Printed yellow wraps. Pagination runs 253-328. Single issue of this magazine devoted to theater arts, with this having articles on the Russian theater scene, new Italian ballet, a roster of new playwrights, etc. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy uneven darkening and browning to the wrappers. Minor soiling and a few small stains. Small date stamp on the center front cover. Upper spine torn and peeling back. Some creasing along the extremities. Owner's blindstamp on the contents page. Good .

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Book number: 016492

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn Performing Arts

Beichman, Janine; Makoto, OOKA (translator)

Drifting Fires. An American No

Japan, Shichigatsudo Press, 1986. Wraps. Red printed wraps. 30 pp. Text in English and Japanese. With a fold out sheet advertising a staging of the piece. An "American" play using the form of the Japanese No. By Janine Beichman, an author and scholar specializing in Japanese poetry. GOOD condition. Moderate uneven fading and offsetting to the covers. Minor wrinkling and along the extremities and corners. Good .

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Book number: 016569

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn

Belasco, David

A Souvenir of Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice As Presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York December 21, 1922

New York, Privately Printed, 1922. Soft Cover. Cardboard stock covers in brown printed paper wraps (adhered to the covers). Folio. 173 pp. With a section of 28 photo plates. SIGNED, with an inscription, by David Belasco, and dated 1927. With another gift inscription present from the recipient to Craig (Timberlake, an American stage actor). A privately issued work commemorating the 1922 production of the Merchant of Venice, providing Belasco's commentary on the play, the cast of characters, photo plates, and tributes. David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, as well as a playwright and director. He was influential in American stage design, and used emerging technology to create state of the art theaters in New York (see Wikipedia). GOOD condition. A large chip missing from the lower front wrap, with a smaller chip, also missing at the lower center edge of the same wrap. Mostly minor chipping, creasing and tearing along the wrappers. Minor soiling and toning. Previous owner's large decorative bookplate on the inside front cover. Text solid, with minor toning. Good .

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Book number: 007452

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn David Belasco Theater

Birch, Samuel

The Adopted Child, a Musical Drama, in Two Acts. As It Is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Crow-Street

Dublin, Printed for George Folingsby, 1799. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, presumably disbound from a larger work. Lacking any wrappers or binding issued. 4, 31 pp. A play by Samuel Birch, a sometimes dramatist who served as the Lord Mayor of London from 1814 to 1815. GOOD condition. Remains of binding along the spine. Minor toning and foxing to the paper. Good .

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Book number: 020044

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn

Brissaud, Pierre cover Illustrator

Theatre National de L'Opera-Comique Saison 1931-1932. Pelleas Et Melisande. Samedi 21 Mai 1932

No Place, No printer or publisher Given, 1932. Original Wraps. Unpaginated. Original wraps. A theater program for a production of Debussy's opera Pelleas and Melisande, featuring black and white photos of cast members. Of note is the cover illustration by Pierre Brissaud featuring a black and white silhouette of the orchestra at the bottom and two actors and the stage done in apparent gilt style coloring, with black and white shading. In FAIR condition with dampstaining evident along the cover extremities, affecting the lower ¼ of the last half of the booklet. Moderate darkening and general fading to the covers. Minor to moderate soiling to the rear cover. Slight creasing and minor edgewear. General fading to the interior with minor scattered soiling. Nice cover art by Pierre Brissaud. Ill.: Brissaud, Pierre. Good .

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Book number: 002878

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Debussy Pierre Brissaud

Budry, Maurice

Trois Petits Tours Pour Les Marionettes. Les Cahiers Romands Deuxieme Serie. No. 3

Lausanne, Librairie Payot et Cie, 1932. Limited. Quarter Leather. #9 of 35 copies SIGNED by the author. Blue marbled paper covered boards with a blue leather spine (not as issued). Original wraps bound in. 136 pp. All text in French. A collection of three plays by this author and lyricist. GOOD+ condition. Heavy scuffing/fading to the leather along the spine. Minor fading and edgewear to the book. Some browning to the paper. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010811

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn

Bullins, Ed

The Duplex. A Black Love Fable in Four Movements

New York, William Morrow and Company, 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, with no statement of later printings. Beige cloth in unclipped dust jacket. 166 pp. A play by Ed Bullins, a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and Minister of Culture in the Black Panther Party. GOOD jacket on a VERY GOOD book. Some toning and soiling to the jacket, mostly to the rear cover. Two small tears near the upper left front corner. Minor scuffing and edgewear. Light fading and edgewear to the book. Owner's name on the first endpaper. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 018564

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn African American

Cibber, Colley

The Careless Husband. A Comedy

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1735. Pamphlet. Pamphlet, disbound, lacking any wrappers or cover issued. Leather remains along the spine. 108 pp. plus an illustrated frontispiece. A 1735 printing of Colley Cibber's play, The Careless Husband. This work, exploring infidelity in marriage (cheating husband) with humor and maudlin emotions, was considered Cibber's best work, and perhaps most popular. Colley Cibber was an actor, poet and playwright, although consensus among his contemporaries indicated that he was considered overrated in all aspects of his careers. Alexander Pope featured him as head dunce in his work, the Dunciad. GOOD condition. Covers lacking, with leather present along the spine. Minor toning, scattered foxing and soiling to the paper. Good .

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Book number: 019984

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn

Clay, Iris (artist)

The Brig by Kenneth H. Brown. Show Flier for a Living Theatre Staging

New York, Living Theatre, presumed Publisher. Unbound. no date, circa 1963. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. A flier advertising the play, "The Brig," by Kenneth Brown and first staged at the Living Theatre in 1963. The play, an antiauthoritarian work based on Brown's experiences incarcerated while in the Marines, won an Obie Award. The Living Theatre is a long running theater company known for its efforts to make theater less commercial and more community based. GOOD condition. Several chips and tears along the extremities, with the tip of the lower left corner torn off. Minor toning and wrinkling. Good .

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Book number: 019663

Catalogue: Drama

Keywords: Noisbn Fliers