Film watchers view the story of a nonfiction book about a "crazy" orchid dealer and at the same time the story of a screenwriter who turns to his twin brother for help in adapting the book. An original comedy-drama that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles...

Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...

Dramas which have appeared in "Plays," the drama magazine for young people.

A washed-up producer pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest names in Hollywood. No inappropriate story line is off limits. The film contains jaw-dropping, sometimes shockingly disturbing, but always entertaining intertwined stories.

When two squabbling ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical "The Taming of the Shrew", life imitates art, art imitates live, and it all proves no musical comedy imitates "Kiss Me Kate", the backsstage/onstage delight from the 1948 Broadway smash and featuring 14 peerless Cole Porter songs.

One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America.". Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the...