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Johnny Vermillions theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors are versatile enough to wear many costumes and play many roles. A few props, a little makeup, a costume and--voilà--applause on the rugged frontier. Johnny also arranges a special attraction for each town. While his actors bustle in and out of costumes, on and off the stage in many roles, one plays the villain in the bank. Then the actors take their curtain calls...
3) Touchstone
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Glass thorns volume 1
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Cayden Silversun is part Elven, part Fae, part human Wizard-and all rebel. His aristocratic mother would have him follow his father to the Royal Court, to make a high society living off the scraps of kings. But Cade lives and breathes for the theater, and hes good-very, very good. With his company, hell enter the highest reaches of society and power, as an honored artist-or die trying. Cade combines the talents of Merlin, Shakespeare, and John Lennon:...
4) Enter ghost
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2023.
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"A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers...
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Lady Worthing mysteries volume 2
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2023.
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"Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite at the theater, away from the ton’s judgmental stares and the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition—and her fears that someone from her past...
12) The silent woman
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Nicholas Bracewell mysteries volume 6
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2002
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The sixth novel in a series featuring Nicholas Bracewell, stage manager of an Elizabethan theater company. A fire at Queen's Head, home of the company, sends the troupe on a tour until the repairs are finished. While they are preparing for the trip a woman arrives with a verbal message, but dies from poisoning before she can speak. Bracewell investigates.
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2016.
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"Costume designer Charlotte Fairfax is enlisted by theater company supporter Paula Van Dusen to investigate the murder of a family friend who happens to be a business rival of her daughter's fianc ǎnd throws herself into an investigation of shady business deals, a missing dog, and long buried family secrets"--
14) A tender thing
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[2020]
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"Under the bright lights of Broadway, one new musical pushes the boundaries of love, legacy, and art. Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Eleanor O'Hanlon always felt different. In love with musical theater from a young age, she memorized every show album she could get her hands on. So when she discovers an open call for one of her favorite productions, she leaves behind everything she knows to run off to New York City and audition. Raw and untrained,...
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