Theatre manager (87 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Its 2011: Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret embassy cables and military logs from the Iraq and Afghan wars. After nearly two years in prison without charge, Manning now faces a court martial, accused of crimes that could mean life in prison. But just a few years ago, Manning was a teenager in west Wales. How did this happen? And who is responsible for this radicalisation?Tim Prices extraordinary play tackles one of the most controversial political stories of our age, placing it in the context of other great Welsh radicals, from the Chartists to Aneurin Bevan.The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning was performed by National Theatre Wales across Wales in April 2012. In 2013, the play won the James Tait Black Prize for Drama. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Soft Covers. Condizione: Good. Programme for the month November outlined. Cover wear & stains. Internally good. Scarce.

Hardcover. 8°. Double feed. Good condition. --- 2 Blatt. Gut. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Leuchtender Herbstbeginn! Wie wäre es mit einem guten Buch? Bei uns werden Sie fündig, stöbern Sie in unserem Ladengeschäft oder online. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K19610-227518.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. One mans dream of the NHS.From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin Nye Bevan is often referred to as the politician with the greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister.Confronted with death, Nyes deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill in an epic Welsh fantasia.Tim Price's surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britains welfare state premiered at the National Theatre starring Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan. This edition was published to coincide with the original production in February 2024.…

Trade Paperback. First Edition. Single sheet, folded to create 4 pages, 6 x 9.5 inches when folded. Named cast and verses by Robert Buchanan for each member on inside leaves. Illustrated stage scene on last leaf. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy previously folded in half.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Pp.8. Gilt decoration and ornate design on front cover. Covers stained, but many of these are easily erased.Previous owner's name and inscriptionon top of title page. There is a brown blotch on lower corner of each page and rear cover. Else good. Scarce programme.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Used - Very Good. (4) pages. Advertisements. Folded sheet, 10.5 x 7" Cast, Story, Synopsis, Staff. VG.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Used - Very Good. (24) page. 2 seat plans, illustrated advertisements. Stapled booklet, 9 x 6" Owner note, trifle toned, VG.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Used - Very Good. (24) pages. 3 seat plans, illustrated advertisements (large engraving of Claremont Inn). 9 x 6", green, tan & black printed wrapper. Owner note, VG.

OBroschur. Condizione: Sehr gut. 20 S. mit Stab, Besetzung u. zahlr. Abb., geheft. OBroschur, 8°. Mit Fotoportraits der künstlerisch Beteiligten. Text: The Story of "The Consul". Dazu 3 Probenfotos aus der Insz. "Dial 'M' for Murder". Sehr gutes Exemplar. Broschüre.

4 pp. 7-1/2 inches square. A few tiny scrapes to p. 4; otherwise fine. "This Theatre is Lighted by the Edison Incandescent System." Page [1] freatures a lovely color lithograph (Forbes Lith.) of the theater's interior with a performance underway; page [2] lists details of the performance; page [3] ads; and page [4] is a diagram of the theater deating. …

Hard Cover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1973, 1st Edition, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, DustJacket Light Rub, Fade, Wear, Scuff Tiny Chips Extremities, Back DJ Bottom edge small Triangular chip Not affecting Print, 163 pgs, Epilog, Index, Nice Dark Burgundy Cloth Titled in Gold Gilt on Spine, DJ spine lite Scuff wear.…

Paper Back. Condizione: Good. 1937 Theatre Programme.Tightly bound stapled P/b. 12pp. Price 3d.The Valkyrie. Conducted by L Collingwood & Produced by S Austin. Theatre Manager BD Worsley.[ programme has been stored folded by a previous owner] Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.…

Condizione: pamphlet, fine condition. Play directed by Leonard Crainford. photo & ads (illustratore).

Condizione: pamphlet, fine condition. directed by lenard White (season 1953-54). photo & ads (illustratore).

Classical actress and theatre manager (1872-1957), later Lady Simson. The signature is 2½ inches long, on a piece of grey paper, with one crease but otherwise in good condition. The paper is mounted on a piece of card which is neatly docketed, 'Lena Ashwell | now | Lady Simson 1925 | Actress | famous in | [.] | Appointed Office of the Order of the British Empire for valuable work in providing concerts at the front and at Home during the Great War'.…

One page. On piece of paper roughly seven inches by three and a half wide. Bottom part of letter cut away. Reads 'Dr Sir | In compiance with your wish | I subscribe myself | truly yours | [signed] J. M. Weston | To/ | Jas. Reese Esq'. Docketed by Rees 'The above autograph is that of my friend J M Weston, Stage Manager of the St Charles Theatre - he is the Author of Several popular pieces, among which is the beautiful drama of Lucretia Borgia'. Dated in another hand on reverse. Not much appears to be known about Weston, whose translation of Victor Hugo's play was first published in 1850.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. On watermarked wove paper. In good condition, folded once. Centred on the page, and clearly written for an autograph hunter. Reads: 'with kind regards from / G. Colman / 21st. July. 1828. / Brompton Square.'.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains [xii] 164 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece, ornate chapter capital letters. Tanning to the page edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 10 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1850771855 STAGE & THEATRE.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER, 1940, 1st edition, GOOD+, PAPERBACK with Cover Stains, Yellow illustrated Cvr of art Deco light rub, Wear, 4 3/4 X 7 1/2 IN. Textured yellow wrappers, , 76 pgs, Small Light stain on outer edge , Cast of Characters Pop Dryden, Eccentric Old Chap, Allen Dryden, His son, Dave Ross, Picture Theatre Manager, Skipper, Crack-Pot Hobo, Trixie Lavelle, a Friend Indeed, Thelma Lytell, modern young woman , who stops off for lunch & buys the restaurant ETC.…

5½'' x 3½''. Printed back. Monochrome post card. Member of the P.B.F.A. POSTCARDS.

See his entry, and Manby's, in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, on first leaf of bifolium, with the blank second leaf carrying traces of tape from the mount. Neatly folded for postage. Addressed to 'My dear Manby' and signed 'Jno. B Buckstone'. In addition to his work as an engineer Manby was for many years involved in the management of the Adelphi and Haymarket theatres. Buckstone begins by finrming him that he is enclosing a 'fresh Bill', and has 'sent in the proposal, for a Policy of £300, which will be issued in a few days', and which he will forward to Manby, 'with thanks for your thought of such arrangement as it has only expedited what I intended to do for myself'. He takes it for granted that Manby will 'hold the Bill due on Tuesday next till you are in possession of the Policy'.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. He had taken on the management of Drury Lane in 1849, and had hoped to profit from the Great Exhibition, but retired from it in 1851, having incurred substantial losses. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, on the first leaf of a bifolium, with the reverse of the second leaf bearing minor traces of mount, as well as the following annotation in a contemporary hand: 'Jas: Anderson Esqre / Lessee Drury Lane / Theatre / T Bateman Esqre. / a P. Whelan'. Anderson addresses to 'Peter Whelan Esqr.' and gives an untidy signature 'James Anderson'. He takes 'the very first opportunity' to think him for his 'very kind note of the 7th. inst', and assures him of his 'earnest wish to adopt your advice as early as my circumstances will permit'. He ends by begging Whelan's 'acceptance of my sincerest thanks'.…

Actor then Theatre Manager (see DNB). "unexpected circumstances" oblige him to postopone the opening of the Adelphi Season until June next. The cast will not assemble until the 12th June. It appears to be in a secretarial hand signed by Murray.

1p., landscape 8Vo. In fair condition, aged and with a number of vertical crease lines. Reads: 'Dear Mr Clarkson, | Will you please give instructions that any wigs that are being made for Sir Arthur Pinero's new play should be here not later than 11 o'clock on Monday morning next. Our Dress Parade is at 12 o'clock.' The play Boucicault refers to is 'The Widow of Wasdale Head'.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Two volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. First edition. xi,[i],319,[1]; [iv],415,[1]pp. Folding frontispiece to volume I. §The British actor & theatre manager Bernard Miles's set. Miles (1907-1991) opened the Mermaid Theatre in London, the first theatre to have been opened in the City for 300 years. Original green buckram, gilt lettering & decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illegible ink ownership signature, dated 1906, to front pastedown of each volume, and Miles's pencilled signature to front free endpaper of volume II. Free endpapers tanned, spines a little darkened, otherwise a very good set. (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 1.9 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required for overseas orders. International customers, please ask for a prior shipping quote).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1973, 1st Edition, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, DustJacket Light Rub, Fade, Wear, Scuff Tiny Chips Extremities, Back DJ Bottom edge small Triangular chip Not affecting Print, 163 pgs, Epilog, Artwork by Janice Rae DeWit, Where Did it All Begin ? Gower Glutch, chapters devoted to Tiffany Pictures, Grand National, Monogram, Republic and PRC, as well as examinations of serials, westerns, the use of miniatures, locations, etc Index, Nice Dark Burgundy Cloth Titled in Gold Gilt on Spine, DJ spine lite Scuff wear , FORMER OWNER STAMP Back Blank Endpapers light FOX, Illustrated B/W Photos Artwork by Janice Rae DeWitt, Foreword by Spencer Gordon Bennett . Signed by Author(s). …

12mo, 1 p. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He had meant to write to him 'at the end of the series' (of articles by Macqueen-Pope?): 'We took a great deal of trouble in putting the series over well, and I am glad you liked the results.' The 'nonsense at the beginning' was caused by 'a series of misunderstandings'. Ends: 'No doubt we will knock into each other shortly.'.…

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mount adhering to the corners of the blank reverse. Of course Hollingshead should 'wait till the last night of "used up" ' before writing to Mathews, who has 'hunted up Buckstone - hunted up Turpin - but in vain. Not a box to be had'. He has sent 'the best I could get': '3 Dress Circle to Mrs Smiles with "Mr Hollingshead's best compliments." '. In a postscript states that if Hollingshead wants 'a box for the "Overland Route" before the last night' he will be 'too happy'. 'There is always a run on last nights.'.…

1p., 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged. John Bennion Booth discusses Turner in his 'Old Pink 'un Days' (1925). 'My Wife and I want to express to you and your daughters our great and very real sympathy in your great loss. I sincerely mourn with you for I have lost a very old friend of many years.' He hopes that 'Time, the great healer' will help her in her sorrow. Finck's 'In the Shadows' was one of the last songs played as RMS Titanic went down. …