Thirty-five-year-old Arabella, a New York theatre director whose dating and career prospects are drying up, is offered an opportunity to direct a risqué cross-dressing interpretation of a Shakespeare classic (that might garner international attention) in the West Bank. Her grandmother, Zoya, plots to make a match between her and Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor volunteering in Gaza. Arabella agrees to meet Aziz since her growing feelings for...

A powerful London theater critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.

The film that launched the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals, 42ND STREET traces the creation of a Broadway show from its first casting call through its blockbuster opening night--when the leading lady twists her ankle and a young chorus girl (Ruby Keller) takes her place and becomes a star.

A young actor famed for his female roles in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke, and his brilliant friend Joan Buckler are drawn into political intrigue with Francis Bacon, altering their lives and testing their dreams.

During the Salem witch trials, a young girl named Alice Ray tries to stand up for the wrongly accused. Includes a Reader's Theater script.

When Ned is cast in a stage production of Macbeth, led by the famous but peculiar director Bear Larouche, Nancy volunteers to help with the set. She's also allowed to sit in on a few rehearsals, where she gets an earful from the director about theater superstitions: never say "Macbeth" out loud--only refer to it as "The Scottish Play"--never wear blue, no peacock feathers onstage, and so on. The play is off to a promising start until Ned breaks the...

The story of a race between steamboats Natchez and Robert E. Lee in 1870 includes a script for readers' theater.

It's 1897, and a new fashion for thin threatens to end the career of proudly fat vaudeville performer Evelyn Cross. Enter Thomas Gallier, the man behind the new palace of entertainment promising to be the apex of New York City's theatrical scene. He's in search of a star for his vaudeville spectacular, and when he hears Evelyn sing, he knows exactly who he needs to grace his stage.

Sergei Maksudov has failed as a novelist and made a farce of a suicide attempt, but only after a surprise break as a playwright on the Moscow stage does his turmoil truly begin. Thrown uncomprehending into theatre life, he soon sees his beloved play dragged into chaos by inflated egos, jealous critics, literary double-dealers, communist censors and insanely bad acting. -- Cover p. [4].

When an innocent Amish girl with dreams of becoming a dancer leaves her Pennsylvania home for the big city of New York, she could never have imagined where it would lead.