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|  | Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2000 by Ensemble Studio Theatre Staff
The 13 plays collected here were produced off-Broadway as part of the famed Ensemble Studio Theater's annual marathon of short plays. Included here, work by Leslie Caputo, David Ives, Billy Aronson, and others. AUTHOR: Ensemble Studio Theatre Staff
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Art of Acquiring by Mary Gabriel
Etta and Claribel Cone had an eye for art that was unparalleled at their time, and they left Baltimore what is perhaps the best gift the city has ever received: their collection. AUTHOR: Mary Gabriel
PUBLISHER: Bancroft Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Andrew Wyeth by Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art Staff, Mississippi Museum of Art Staff, Telfair Museum of Art Staff
In his autobiography, American realist painter Andrew Wyeth presents 138 of his tempera, drybrush, and water color paintings. Each reproduction is accompanied by his personal thoughts about it. AUTHOR: Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art Staff, Mississippi Museum of Art Staff, Telfair Museum of Art Staff
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Brian Friel in Conversation by Paul Delaney
The reluctance of contemporary Irish playwright Brian Friel to speak with the press is legendary. Fortunately, his willingness on occasion to grant interviews has fortuitously coincided with the productions of his pivotal works, including the highly celebrated Laughing at Lughnasa, recently released as a motion picture starring Meryl Streep. In this comprehensive volume, theater critic and scholar Paul Delaney gathers an amazingly broad and consistently engaging range of Friel's conversations with interviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Friel talks with disarming openness about his own life. He is also surprisingly candid in decrying a dehydration of humanity in Pinter and an abnegation of life in Beckett, in pondering the dangers of Irish writers who are having to use a language that isn't our own, in revealing that his plays grow out of a willingness to delve into a particular corner of yourself that's dark and uneasy, and in talking about the way that Laughing at Lughnasa manifests his sense of a need for the pagan in life. Friel has preferred to talk primarily with Irish interviewers throughout much of his career, and many of his most important interviews were printed in rather obscure publications. Brian Friel in Conversation makes available interviews that were formally virtually inaccessible, as well as more recent interviews in places such as the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and discography of Friel interviews to aid further reading and research. AUTHOR: Paul Delaney
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Macbeth by A. R. Braunmuller, Alan Durband, Barbara A. Mowat, Braham Murray, Daniel Leary
Shakespeare`s dark portrait of ambition begins when three prophesying witches conspire to meet with Macbeth. Obliging his fate, he indeed encounters these Weird Sisters, who mysteriously refer to him by the title Thane of Cawdor, and moreover, as the future king. Macbeth`s companion Banquo is told that his descendants will inherit the throne. Macbeth and Banquo are dumbstruck when two noblemen of Scotland arrive announcing Macbeth`s new title; with confirmation of the prophesy, the seeds of ambition are planted. When Lady Macbeth learns about the prophesy of her husband`s rule in a letter from him, she begins plotting the murder of Duncan, King of Scotland. The murder of the King sets in motion a series of dark deeds that torment Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with guilt, especially when the ghost of Banquo, who is among the couple`s slain, appears at a banquet. The guilt manifests pointedly when Lady Macbeth, in a somnolent state, attempts to wash the blood from her hands, famously uttering Out, damn`d spot! out I say! MACBETH was Probably written between 1603 and 1606, the last of his major tragedies. A concise drama, MACBETH may be brief as the result of Shakespeare`s having learned of King James`s penchant for shorter works. The plot was inspired by the Chronicles of Holinshed`s narrative of the reigns of Duncan and Macbeth. Richard Burbage, one of the most prominent actors of the Elizabethan stage, is said to have originated the title role. The earliest extant evidence of performance refers to a staging in 1611, but indirect evidence, such as the work`s influence on other plays of the period, suggests an earlier debut. AUTHOR: A. R. Braunmuller, Alan Durband, Barbara A. Mowat, Braham Murray, Daniel Leary
PUBLISHER: Naxos of America, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Graffito by Michael Walsh
For two years, beginning in the fall of 1994, Michael Walsh immersed himself in the graffiti world of the San Francisco Bay Area. He took thousands of photographs, frequented train yards, went on all-night bombing runs with graffiti writers, prowled the Muni train tunnels at 3 am, rode with graffiti abatement crews, spoke with small business owners who are frequent targets of graffiti, and tracked down key city officials and personnel directly involved with graffiti removal. This powerful book delivers a raw, in-your-face account of this complex and controversial subject. It contains nearly 200 photographs, and quotes from over fifty interviews regarding both sides of the issue, and dispels many of the media-generated myths concerning graffiti. AUTHOR: Michael Walsh
PUBLISHER: North Atlantic Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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