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Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck

GUSSOW, Mel

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

A comprehensive portrait of the critically acclaimed playwright reveals Albee's struggle with alcoholism, his troubled personal life and unhappy childhood, and the genius that made him one of the most admired literary men of his generation. 17,500 first printing.

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography

Humor & Entertainment

Simon&Schuster

Interviews conducted over a period of ten years reveal Beckett's thoughts about his work and productions of his plays, and are accompanied by interviews with actors and directors who have worked with Beckett

Conversations With and About Beckett

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Grove Pr

For more than twenty years, Mel Gussow, a drama critic for the New York Times, has been meeting Harold Pinter to talk about work and life, plays and people. At the core of this book is a series of lengthy interviews - some of the most extensive that Pinter has ever given - all published here in full for the first time. Pinter and Gussow first meet in 1971, when Old Times is a new play and Pinter's status as a major writer is still being confirmed. Then come public and private conversations in the eighties, when the voice of Pinter's political commitment is first heard. And finally, over a period of a week in September 1993, the two talk after the London premiere of Pinter's latest play, Moonlight. Here the playwright is in a more mellow mood, happy to contemplate his early life and to admit to a political agenda behind such plays as The Birthday Party. Through these and other revealing insights, he allows us to see the complete arc of his work to date in its true light. The resulting book is one of the most thoughtful and intimate portraits of the writer yet to appear. In fact, it is a kind of self-portrait, since, intentionally, it is Pinter who does most of the talking. Though famously reticent on the subjects of his work and his private life, Pinter opens up for Gussow in a manner both beguilingly frank and refreshingly informative.

Conversations with Pinter

Dramas & Plays

GROVE PRESS

Book by Gussow, Mel, Stoppard, Tom

Conversations With Stoppard

Stoppard, Tom.

Mel Gussow, the longtime drama critic for The New York Times, has put together a revelatory book of conversations with the famously reticent author and his chief collaborators. In this revealing and poignant collection, Gussow paints a portrait of Samuel Beckett, the novelist and playwright whose body of work is unmatched for its intensity and cohesiveness. Although Beckett never allowed an interview, he did talk informally with Gussow over a ten-year period. Conversations with and about Beckett includes those encounters, with talk of actors, directors, the general state of the theater, art, life -- and tennis. The conversations, previously unpublished, show the reputedly austere author as modest, humorous, and open-minded but always precise and revealing about his own work, which he discusses with great acuity.

Conversations with and About Beckett

This book features interviews between author Mel Gussow, a drama critic for the New York Times, and playwright Harold Pinter. The conversations begin in 1971 and continue on to September 1993, and the reader is treated to a insightful and revealing portrait of the famous writer through his own words.

Conversations with Pinter (Limelight)

Limelight

In his years as a drama critic for the New York Times, Mel Gussow has developed special insights into the work and lives of contemporary playwrights. For more than twenty years, he has been meeting Tom Stoppard to talk about his plays and the people and ideas that have helped to shape his career. This book begins with transcripts of nine conversations from the seventies and eighties which have never been published in Britain before and never published anywhere in full. Completing the volume are two lengthy interviews conducted especially for this book and appearing in print for the first time. They took place before and during the preparation of Stoppard's latest play, Indian Ink. Stoppard and Gussow first meet in 1972, when the talk is of Stoppard's early work such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and The Real Inspector Hound and of his new play Jumpers. Meeting regularly every three or four years after that, whether in London or New York, there is always a new play to discuss - Travesties, Night and Day, The Real Thing - and therefore a new impetus to the ongoing investigation into Stoppard's working methods and sources of inspiration. Finally, in their most recent encounters, with Arcadia running in the West End, Hapgood running in New York and Indian Ink opening in London, they not only delve into the background of each of these plays but range widely over topics such as Stoppard's chihlhood in India, his feelings about the press, his attitudes to other writers and his life outside the theatre.

Conversations with Stoppard

History

Limelight Editions

Compiled by Mel Gussow, this collection of sideshow American and international theatre includes: Deeply American Roots (Sam Shepard) • The Man Who Made Theatre Ridiculous (Charles Ludlam) • From the City Streets, a Poet of the Stage (Miguel Piñero) • The Clark Kent of Modern Theatre (Robert Wilson) • Speaks the Language of Illusion (Martha Clarke) • The Lonely World of Displaced Persons (Lanford Wilson) • A Virtuoso Who Specializes in Everything (Michael Gambon) • Actress, Clown, and Social Critic (Whoopi Goldberg) • Comedy, Tragedy and Mystical Fantasy (Peter Brook) • Celebrating the Fallen World (Richard Foreman).

Theatre on the Edge: New Visions, New Voices (Applause Books)

Applause

Mel Gussow's critically-acclaimed biography of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Seascape, A Delicate Balance, The Zoo Story), who first electrified the American theatre scene in the 1960s with his groundbreaking The Zoo Story followed by the legendary Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey (Applause Books)

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