Movie fans eagerly await each new edition of Screen World, the definitive record of the cinema since 1949. Volume 59 provides an illustrated listing of every significant American and foreign film released in the United States in 2007, documented with more than 1,000 color and black-and-white photographs. Screen World's outstanding features include a color section of highlights; a comprehensive index with over 19,000 entries; a look at the year's most promising new screen personalities; and a priceless reference on nearly 2,500 living stars....

Celebrating its 64th year, Theatre World remains the definitive annual record of the American theatre season - the most complete record of the Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional theatre season. Volume 64 features Harvey Fierstein's A Catered Affair, starring Faith Prince, and Tracy Lett's moving August: Osage County, the latter part of a strong season for original dramas on Broadway. It was a season also rife with stellar revivals, including Sunday in the Park with George; South Pacific; Come Back; Little Sheba with S. Epatha Merkerson; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones; and The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand. Off Broadway, both Passing Strange and In the Heights were a sensation and moved to Broadway. Mask, at the Pasadena Playhouse, and True Life Tales, based on an Internet blog and produced by Balliwick Repertory in Chicago, made splashes on the regional scene. 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 * Full coverage of the Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debuts * Expanded obituaries and a comprehensive index...

Applause Theatre and Cinema Books is pleased to make this venerable continuing series complete by publishing Theatre World Volume 63. Theatre World remains the authoritative pictorial and statistical record of the season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and for regional theatre companies. Volume 63 features Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spring Awakening, which also earned a Theatre World Award for actor Jonathan Groff. Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia captured the Best Play Tony Award, as well as Tonys for featured actors Billy Crudup and Jennifer Ehle. Frasier star David Hyde Pierce returned to his theatre roots to capture a Tony for Kander and Ebb's Curtains, and other highlights of the season include the Off-Broadway musical In the Heights as well as Passing Strange, which debuted at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Both have since transferred to Broadway and become critical and popular hits. As always, Theatre World's outstanding features include: * An expanded section of professional regional productions from across the U.S. * The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway * Full coverage of the Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debuts * Expanded obituaries and a comprehensive index...