Arthur Laurents
Author
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Best known for the hit musicals West Side Story and Gypsy, Arthur Laurents began his career writing socially minded plays such as Home of the Brave and Time of the Cuckoo. He also garnered impressive credits as a screenwriter (The Way We Were) and stage director (La Cage aux Folles). Such a varied professional life makes for absorbing reading, as unleashed in his lively 2000 autobiography, Original Story By.
Laurents passed away early in 2011 but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
The feud between two New York teenage gangs abruptly ends the brief happiness shared by Maria, a Puerto Rican girl, and Tony, a member of the Jets. In his attempt to defend a fellow Jet, Tony kills Maria's brother and shortly thereafter is killed by Maria's rejected fiancé.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents--author of Gypsy, West Side Story, Anastasia, The turning point and other plays and films--takes us into his life, and into the dazzling world in which he worked, among the artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after the Second World War."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1953]
Language
English
Description
The play focuses on the bittersweet romance between Leona Samish, a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe and Renato Di Rossi, a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Di Rossi, trapped in a loveless marriage, relentlessly pursues Leona, who initially is shocked by the thought of an illicit affair but eventually succumbs to the Italian's charms.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Playwright, screenwriter, and director Arthur Laurents writes about directing Broadway musicals, especially Gypsy and West Side Story, about other musicals and other directors, interacting with producers, writers, and actors, and about life with his late partner, Tom Hatcher.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
A group of congenial friends have restored several adjoining houses in one of New York's more attractive neighborhoods, and plan to move in en masse -- setting up a sort of urban commune. However, one of their number, a confirmed bachelor, has resolved to confront the others with the fact of his long-concealed homosexuality and to bring along his young male lover as a permanent addition to the group. Although his friends have always prided themselves...
17) Gypsy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, with focus on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with the ultimate stage mom. It follows the dreams and efforts of Rose as she raises two daughters to perform onstage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life.--