We Made It All Up is the story of Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton's longest-running improv company. Since 1981 it's sent countless audiences into fits of laughter, vaulted a few actors to Hollywood, survived embezzlement, and emerged as a...
Theatrical companies
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Author:Blinov, PaulSummary: - Author:Patchett, Ann.Summary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK. In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to...
- Author:Patchett, Ann.Summary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK READ BY MERYL STREEP In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us...
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Author:Marston, EdwardSummary:The mysterious Simon Chaloner appears at the Queen’s Head Pub following a performance by Lord Westfield’s Men, a leading Elizabethan company of players. Then Chaloner follows producer Nicholas Bracewell and playwright Edmund Hoode home...
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Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where the brutal Wackfor Squeers ill-treats...
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Author:Marston, EdwardSummary:Jonas Applegarth is a brilliant but belligerent playwright. When his play, "The Misfortunes of Marriage," is performed by Lord Westfield's Men, it causes an uproar. All of Applegarth's enemies attack the company. Nicholas Bracewell...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Johnny Vermillion and the Prairie Rose Repertory Company bring culture to hardscrabble towns like Purgatory, Diablo and Spunk. The rustlers stop rustlin' and the six-shooters stop shootin' when there's a little Shakespeare to appreciate...
- Author:Mandel, Emily St. JohnSummary:
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to...
- Author:Brenna, DwayneSummary:
Winner, Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Prize, 2017 Saskatchewan Book Awards.
New Albion follows the lives of the employees of the New Albion theatre in London, England, in 1850, through the journal entries of the stage...
- Author:L'AMOUR, LouisSummary:
The Healey Dramatic Company is an itinerant theatrical troupe struggling to stay one step ahead of the bill collector as it travels from mining camps to cow towns. When the troupe decides to head to their next show during a snowstorm,...
