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The Laramie ProjectThe Laramie Project
Best Price: $7.24
I bought this to read prior to watching the DVD of the Laramie Project, to compare, and was glad...
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches (Angels in America)
Best Price: $3.59
This play is very accessible to the reader accustomed to reading prose. Contemporary situations...
The Q Guide to Broadway (Pop Culture Out There Q Guide)The Q Guide to Broadway (Pop Culture Out There Q Guide)
Best Price: $7.30
Seth is amazingly funny and witty. His writing style is not comparable to anyone. He really...
Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi
Best Price: $5.99
Though unconventional and challenging, this play is the work of a true Christan: that is, of a...
The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian PlaysThe Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays
Best Price: $4.98
This exciting collection of contemporary plays explores a wide range of concerns facing gay men...


Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four ChaptersSordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters
Best Price: $16.99
Originally staged in Los Angeles, SORDID LIVES is a study in bad taste with a Texas twist....
Beautiful Thing Drama Version (Modern Plays)Beautiful Thing Drama Version (Modern Plays)
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i saw the movie before i read the book if i remember correctly (it was a long time ago for...
Looking for Sex in ShakespeareLooking for Sex in Shakespeare
Best Price: $13.50
This slim volume (fewer than a hundred pages of text) by Stanley Wells is something of a tease....
The Changing Room : Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance)The Changing Room : Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance)
Best Price: $39.61
Laurence Senelick's The Changing Room is an entertaining and well-written exploration of the...
Tennessee Williams in ProvincetownTennessee Williams in Provincetown
Best Price: $12.45
In what David Kaplan in the "Preface" calls a monograph rather than a biography,...


Angels in America, Parts One and TwoAngels in America, Parts One and Two
Best Price: $41.39
It always amazes me that people can zero in so narrowly and find something to fight about. It is...
The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater (Sexual Cultures Series)The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater (Sexual Cultures Series)
Best Price: $20.80
"This stimulating collection of essays critically examines and celebrates what, for...
1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Best Price: $12.37
Miller, Tim. "1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels", University of Wisconsin...
Genius and Lust: The Creativity and Sexuality of Cole Porter and Noel CowardGenius and Lust: The Creativity and Sexuality of Cole Porter and Noel Coward
Best Price: $14.00
A dual biography of Noel Coward and Cole Porter includes interviews with still-living friends,...
The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?
Best Price: $7.64
The book arrived earlier than I thought it would. Was in great shape and was a good read. Like...

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay AmericaStagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
Best Price: $6.00
Having read "People in Trouble", I can't see how her book was used as a basis for...
Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century DramaGentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama
Best Price: $6.50
So much of the critical reaction to the work of Tennessee Williams was colored by the prevailing...
Take me outTake me out
Best Price: $1.01
Greenberg is an intriguing playwright, erudite, bright, urbane, witty...the superlatives go on...
Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on StageNot in Front of the Audience: Homosexuality on Stage
Best Price: $28.89
Written as a study of homosexuality in the theatre, de Jongh pieces together what he feels are...
Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing ArtsPerformance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
Best Price: $16.84
Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary...

Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
Best Price: $18.49
I wasn't very keen on reading some scholar-talk when it comes to one of my favorite dramas ever....
Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a PrayerThinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer
Best Price: $6.57
This book, a compilation of many short works, is truly one of Kushner's gems. And though,...
Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in BrazilTentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil
Best Price: $29.92
Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Albuquerque examines the way the Modernist...
A Question of Mercy: A Play Based on the Essay by Richard Selzer (Rabe, David)A Question of Mercy: A Play Based on the Essay by Richard Selzer (Rabe, David)
Best Price: $4.95
When i first read this play i couldn't put it down. it made my understanding of the entire...
Visiting Mr. GreenVisiting Mr. Green
Best Price: $5.99
I ordered it and I found it is just the playbill, which I've already got one as I entered the...

Celluloid GazeCelluloid Gaze
Best Price: $7.50
First published in 1987 under the title "Conversations with My Elders," Celluloid Gaze...
Say You Love SatanSay You Love Satan
Best Price: $7.50
Gay Plays: Cock & Bull Story : Terminal Bar : Levitation : The Prisoners of War (Gay Plays)Gay Plays: Cock & Bull Story : Terminal Bar : Levitation : The Prisoners of War (Gay Plays)Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, authorship, and sexualities in Renaissance drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Best Price: $32.54
Textual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theater history, the study of printed...
Lovesick: Modernest Plays Of Same-Sex (Gay) LoveLovesick: Modernest Plays Of Same-Sex (Gay) Love
Best Price: $32.56
This volume makes available an international collection of plays, from the US, Britain, Germany,...

The Last Sunday in June and Other Plays: Including If Memory Serves and the Twilight of the GoldsThe Last Sunday in June and Other Plays: Including If Memory Serves and the Twilight of the Golds
Best Price: $6.00
All of Tolins' work here is relatable, but brave. The characters, gay and straight, are...
Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural AnxietyVested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Best Price: $14.71
first off, i can't say i would recommend this book to someone who doesn't have a more academic...
Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway MusicalPlace for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical
Best Price: $12.82
A reviewer below -- though not as below as he deserves to be -- writes: "DA Miller is an...
Most Fabulous Story Ever Told: And Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm BeachMost Fabulous Story Ever Told: And Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach
Best Price: $4.24
I'm ordering the script because I just saw " ...Fabulous..." on stage at the Trustus...
Art Works: Part II (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)Art Works: Part II (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)
Best Price: $11.99
Art Works, Parts 1 and 2 address how art, theater, performance, film, and visual culture have...

AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic (Suny Series in the Sociology of Culture)AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic (Suny Series in the Sociology of Culture)
Best Price: $23.94
Flights of Angels: My Life with the Angels of LightFlights of Angels: My Life with the Angels of Light
Best Price: $17.69
This memoir comes unvarnished, a raw but beautifully written account of life in an era...
Acting GayActing Gay
Best Price: $4.33
As the Clum authors say about acting gay in this Book it can often get wet, wet, and wild. To my...
Art Works: Part 1Art Works: Part 1
Best Price: $1.87
Art Works, Parts 1 and 2 address how art, theater, performance, film, and visual culture have...
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee WilliamsCommunists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
Best Price: $18.00

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe OrtonPrick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton
Best Price: $6.00
From beginning to end you will be completely immersed in Orton's life. I didn't want the book to...
Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Gender, Culture, Difference)Desire and Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Gender, Culture, Difference)Theatrum Anatomicum : Photographs by Jo BrunenbergTheatrum Anatomicum : Photographs by Jo Brunenberg
Best Price: $15.41
What an outstanding collection of images this book contains. They are of very high quality...
Last Sunday in JuneLast Sunday in June
Best Price: $7.50
We Can Always Call Them BulgariansWe Can Always Call Them Bulgarians
Best Price: $19.95

Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay CultureSomething for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture
Best Price: $1.97
I have to COMPLETELY and UTTERLY disagree with the folks here tha point to "a place for...
Drama Queen: The Gay Man's Guide to an Uncomplicated LifeDrama Queen: The Gay Man's Guide to an Uncomplicated Life
Best Price: $0.75
I have to point out that having read all seven of the reviews for this book, it seems as though...
Body Blows:  Six Performances (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)Body Blows: Six Performances (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
Best Price: $6.46
Body Blows: Six Performances by seasoned performer Tim Miller is an impressive selection of...
The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TVThe Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV
Best Price: $11.25
Having read Stephen Capsuto's book "Alternate Channels" I was eager to read this...
Staging Gay Lives: An Anthology Of Contemporary Gay TheaterStaging Gay Lives: An Anthology Of Contemporary Gay Theater
Best Price: $17.38
I stumbled across this "Staging Gay Lives" when I was despertley looking for the play,...

Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and PerformanceGeographies of Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Performance
Best Price: $19.95
Each of Jill Dolan's three academic locations -- theatre and performance studies,...
Queer as Folk : The Scripts from the British TV SeriesQueer as Folk : The Scripts from the British TV Series
The British series of QAF is available for purchase on VHS or DVD. It is worth every hard-earned...
Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance SpaceLoving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space
Best Price: $33.28
From George Orwell to reality TV - is surveillance to be feared or embraced? Constant scrutiny...
Chat Room & other Latino PlaysChat Room & other Latino Plays
Best Price: $19.87
"The Chat Room and Other Latino Plays" explores the complexities of Latino gay life...
The Paris Letter: A PlayThe Paris Letter: A Play
Best Price: $7.07
Jon Robin Baitz has been praised as one of America's foremost playwrights on themes of...

Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern DramaStill Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama
Best Price: $10.85
Scholar John Clum's critical textual analysis of Gay Theatre, is not a historical account of the...
    
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