Tag: @yalepress
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{New Releases} Week 48 (Nov. 21-27)
It Should’ve Been Me by:ReShonda Tate Billingsley & Victoria Christoper Murray Lights, camera, action… Tamara Collins is poised to become the next great American actress. The problem is Hollywood doesn’t know that just yet…..and since her bills aren’t paying themselves, Tamara signs on to star in the new stageplay, It Should’ve Been Me. Get in, […]
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{New Releases} Week 40 (Sept 26-Oct 2)
Fiction Holiday Temptation by:Donna Hill, Farrah Rochon, K.M. Jackson ’Tis the season to satisfy your holiday desires with this festive trio of sexy stories… A GIFT OF LOVE by Donna Hill Drama professor Traci Long spends her free time at the CoffeeMate café, pursuing her true passion—writing her own plays. Meanwhile, sexy barista Noah Jefferson […]
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{Book Attraction} Celia, a Slave by:Barbara Seyda, Nicholas Wright
The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three […]
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{Book Attraction} America Dancing: From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk by:Megan Pugh
The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, ballet and Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille, choreographer Paul Taylor, and Michael […]
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