For the first time since Harold Clurman’s classic The Fervent Years, a great theater comes to life along with the tumultuous age that engendered it. Founding Artistic Director Marshall W. Mason (winner of the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement) dramatically reveals the inside story of the creation of Circle Repertory Company, arguably the most important American theater since The Group of the 1930s. The Transcendent Years takes a theater lover backstage to witness the discovery of some of the foremost actors of our time (William Hurt, Kathy Bates, Christopher Reeve, Jeff Daniels, Judd Hirsch, Swoosie Kurtz, Nancy Snyder, Jonathan Hogan, Trish Hawkins and Tanya Berezin were members of the Company). The story shares the process of how Circle Rep playwrights Lanford Wilson, Sam Shepard, Marsha Norman, David Mamet, Jules Feiffer, Paula Vogel, Craig Lucas, William Mastrosimone, Larry Kramer and William M. Hoffman wrote plays for the actors to perform. Meticulously documented, The Transcendent Years puts the birth of Circle Rep into the context of the world-shaking changes of the 1960s, the evolutionary era that became the foundation of the 21st century and that provided an impetus for creating timeless art.

The Transcendent Years: The Story of a Theater - Circle Rep

Biographies & Memoirs

Mason, Marshall W.

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Thirteen-year-old Larry Ratner wouldn’t mind starting an after-school club – only this one wouldn’t be for science or Frisbee golf or speaking Mandarin. It would be a club solely for short people. The only problem is that Larry is afraid of being the shortest person in the Short Persons’ Club. Now that he’s celebrated his bar mitzvah, Larry would like to shuck his microscopic status and become the real man his culture now declares him to be, especially in the eyes of his father. But when he falls hard for Sara Rothman, the only human on the planet who really gets him, his daily bus rides become hell on wheels as he’s tormented by a jealous boy three times his size. Larry’s too humiliated to tell anyone, especially his parents, that he doesn’t want to fight back. With his parents losing their jobs shortly after moving the family to this affluent Jersey suburb for a “better life,” suddenly Larry is too small and too poor to fit in anywhere. Despite everything he is learning about the tragic history of his people, as the tension rises on the bus and at school, and in the Ratner household, Larry may not realize history is repeating itself until it’s too late to save his own life.Wonderfully witty and hauntingly compelling, Blood Don’t Lie is not a typical bully story. What happens if David stops himself right before he slays Goliath? And what happens when the smallest kid in 8th grade discovers the biggest bully in his life is not on the bus, but under his own roof…his own blood? A former “member” of the Short Person’s Club, Aaron Levy offers an unforgettable anti-hero in this powerful debut.

Blood Don't Lie

Children's Books

Levy, Aaron

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Backstage Pass to Broadway: More True Tales from a Theatre Press Agent

Schulman, Susan L.

Summer of Fire: Book One of the Yellowstone Series

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Jacobs, Linda

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Rain of Fire: Book Two of the Yellowstone Series

Lake of Fire: Book Three of the Yellowstone Series

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

A story about a village and its inhabitants in Warsaw in the 1930s during Hitler's rise to power.

Shosha (Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions)

Bashevis Singer,Isaac

Genre Fiction

One Fine Day

Arden, Leon

Literary

The Savage Place

Gray Boy

Arnosky, Jim

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