Bøker av Arthur Kopit

Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic (a musical version of the Casanova story), suffers a midlife crisis. One by one, women from his past and present - including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady - haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and encourage him until he finally learns to grow up.This new Ensemble version of the hit Broadway musical has an updated score and offers more flexible casting for productions featuring fewer performers.Nine was also adapted into a major motion picture from Rob Marshall, the acclaimed director of the 2002 film version of Chicago. Of the Broadway musical, Marshall said it is "a sumptuous and emotional work that translates naturally to the film musical genre because of its seamless relationship between fantasy and reality." Composer and lyricist Maury Yeston worked on the film adaptation and created three new songs for the movie musical, which was released in December, 2009.

Red Bull Theater - New York City's "most exciting classical theater" (Time Out NY) - offers the fourth volume of curated plays from its popular annual Short New Play Festival. This collection features 16 ten-minute plays of heightened language and classical themes from today's hottest writers, including commissions from established playwrights Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Dael Orlandersmith, and Doug Wright, along with winning entries by writers such as Rachel Leopold, Amanda Quaid, Anya Martin, and Christian Simonsen, chosen from a competition that receives nearly 300 submissions each year. In the hands of great playwrights, the ten-minute play is a highly entertaining dramatic form. These delightfully compact works - some downright silly, and others powerfully moving - are from the seventh and eighth years of Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival. Dive in and enjoy! Authors include: Charlotte Ahlin, Uriah Celaya, Frederick Dennehy, Justin Aaron Halle, Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Rachel Leopold, Anya Martin, Dael Orlandersmith, Jason Gray Platt, Amanda Quaid, Aubrey Saverino, Christian Simonsen, Samara Weiss, Daniel Wilson, Doug Wright.

An American entrepreneur has found the perfect Scottish island on which to build his new golf course. But as secrets - and bodies - are unearthed, the true nature of the island wreaks comic havoc.

ComedyCharacters: 6 maleInterior Set Despite the title, it has intense meaning for these times. The scene is a room in a wealthy country club, to which the men's committee is hastily summoned early one morning after a carousing dance. Problem: what to do about the 16 luscious but low life females who drove up in a Rolls Royces and then proceeded to the tennis courts, where they are now disporting. While the committee huddles, we learn that they are the vulgar, crass peopl

This remarkable play starred Constance Cummings in a Tony-winning performance on Broadway. Emily Stilson, seventy years old and a celebrated former aviatrix and stunt pilot, suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to relearn the basic functions of everyday life. Aided by a dedicated young therapist, Emily''s flights of memory and emotion create an evocative portrait of the ability of the human spirit to renew and survive

Adaptation from the Italian by Mario FrattiMusical / 1m, 22f, 4 boys (or 10 m, 13 f, 4 boys) / Unit setThis spectacular winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical delighted Broadway theatergoers in a hit revival in 2003 starring Antonio Banderas. Based on Fellini's classic film 8 1/2, Nine is the story of a celebrated film director Guido Contini and his attempts to come up with a plot for his next film as he is pursued by hordes of beautiful women, all clamoring to be loved by him and hi