The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2008 (Monologue Audition Series) - Softcover

Lawrence Harbison

9781575256207: The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2008 (Monologue Audition Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575256207 ISBN 13: 9781575256207

Publisher: Smith & Kraus, 2009

Smith and Kraus continues to bring you more of the annual best in audition materials. You ll find an original collection of contemporary playwriting and scenes from recent plays. More popular than ever before, the Monologue Audition series offers a rich and varied selection of both comic and dramatic scenes for a wide variety of age groups.

Monologues include:

The Actor, Horton Foote
Adopt a Sailor (3), Charles Evered
Boats on a River, Julie Marie Myatt
Cagelove, Christopher Denham
The Conscientious Objector (2), Michael Murphy
Darwin in Malibu, Crispin Whittell
Digging Eleven, Kia Corthron
Down and Dirty, Lee Blessing
Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing, Brett Neveu
Echoes of Another Man, Mia McCullough
The Emperor of Ice Cream; or, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Donald Rumsfeld, Matt Moses
Fall Forward, Daniel Reitz
Food for Fish, Adam Szymkowicz
The Four of Us (3), Itamar Moses
Gary, Melinda Lopez
November (2), David Mamet
Good, Clean Fun (2), Lee Blessing
Great Falls, Lee Blessing
Hunting and Gathering, Brooke Berman
The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker, Russell Davis
Massacre (Sing to Your Children) , Jose Rivera
Mauritius, Theresa Rebeck
Men of Steel (2), Qui Nguyen
100 Saints You Should Know, Kate Fodor
On the Line (2), Joe Roland
Property (2), Rosary O'Neill
Rats, Ron Fitzgerald
The Rules of Charity (2), John Belluso
School of the Americas, Jose Rivera
Screw Machine/Eye Candy, CJ Hopkins
Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven, Young Jean Lee
Spain (2), Jim Knabel
The Sunset LTD, Cormac McCarthy
The Thirteenth of Paris, Mat Smart
This Beautiful City, Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis
Unconditional, Brett C. Leonard
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, Julie Marie Myatt
White People, JT Rogers
Willy's Cut and Shine, Michael Bradford
Wittenberg (2), David Davalos
Yemaya's Belly, Quiara Alegria Hudes

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About the Author:

For over thirty years Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisition for Samuel French, Inc., during which time he was responsible for the first publication of such luminaries as Jane Martin, Don Nigro, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, Jose Rivera, William Mastrosimone, Charles Fuller, and Ken Ludwig, among many others; and the acquisition of musicals such as Smoke on the Mountain, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Little Shop of Horrors and Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down. He is currently Senior Editor for Smith & Kraus, Inc., the nation's largest theatrical trade publisher, for whom he edits annual anthologies of best plays by new playwrights, best ten-minute plays, best monologues for men and for women and best stage scenes. For many years he wrote a weekly column on his adventures in the theater for two Manhattan Newspapers, the Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider. He has also served as literary manager or literary consultant for several theatres, such as Urban Stages and American Jewish Theatre. He is a member of the NYC press corps and is an Outer Critics Circle member. He has served many times over the years as a judge and commentator for various national play contests and lectures regularly at colleges and universities.

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