The most complete annual record of American theatre. Celebrating its 62 year, Theatre World remains the authoritative and pictorial record of the season on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway, and for regional companies. Volume 62 features the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, which also earned a Theatre World Award and Tony Award for its star, John Lloyd Young, while British imports Richard Griffiths and The History Boys gave lessons on how to earn rave reviews as well. Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon returned to her theatre roots to score a Tony in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole. Other highlights of the season include the Off Broadway smash hit Grey Gardens, which would eventually land on Broadway. Regionally, the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre's The Drowsy Chaperone would also eventually transfer to Broadway. As always, Theatre World's outstanding features include: * An expanded section of professional regional productions from across the U.S. * An expanded listing of all the major theatrical awards * The longest running shows on and Off Broadway * Biographical data, obituaries, and a comprehensive index...

En esta impresionante y excepcional antologia se recogen historias entrañables que muestran una excepcional sensibilidad, una conmovedora ternura pero tambien la capacidad satirica y critica de la excepcional autora de El libro del dia del Juicio Final, con el que obtuvo los premio Hugo, Nebula y Locus, galardones que tambien han obtenido varias de las excepcionales historias aqui seleccionadas. / ""Variety is the soul of pleasure,"" and variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire spectrum, from sad to sparkling to terrifying, from classics to hard-to-find treasures with everything in between -- orangutans, Egypt, earthworms, roast goose, college professors, mothers-in-law, aliens, secret codes, Secret Santas, tube stations, choir practice, the post office, the green light on Daisy's dock, weddings, divorces, death, and assorted plagues, from scarlet fever to ""It's a Wonderful Life."" And a dog. Famous for her ""sure-hand plotting, unforgettable characters, and top-notch writing,"" Willis has been called, ""the most relentlessly delightful science fiction writer alive,"" and there are numerous examples here. Among them, Willis's most famous stories -- the Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning ""Fire Watch"" and ""Even the Queen"" and ""The Last of the Winnebagos"" -- along with undiscovered gems like Willis's heartfelt homage to Jack Williamson, ""Nonstop to Portales."" Her magical Christmas stories are here, too, from ""Newsletter"" to ""Just Like the Ones We Used to Know..."" which last year was made into the TV movie, Snow Wonder, starring Mary Tyler Moore. We've collected stories from throughout Willis's career, from early ones like ""Cash Crop"" and ""Daisy, in the Sun,"" right up to her newest stories, including the wonderful ""The Winds of Marble Arch."" There's literally something for everyone here. If you're a diehard Willis fan, you'll be delighted with hard-to-find treasures like the until-now uncollected, ""The Soul Selects Her Own Society..."" If you've never read Connie Willis, this is your chance to discover ""A Letter from the Clearys"" and, well, ""Chance."" To say nothing of, ""At the Rialto,"" the funniest story ever written about quantum physicists. And Willis's chilling, ""All My Darling Daughters."" And mucho more: there are too many great stories here to list and pleasures galore....

A misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck thrust together Sandra Foster, a sociologist who studies fads, and Bennet OReilly, a chaos theorist, for a surprising joint venture....