Hansen Publishing: 78 books

Last Rites is a play about misplaced faith. It unfolds in Camden, New Jersey in 1967 as this blue-collar city experiences the closing of a major shipyard. If the shipyard is the heart of south Camden, then the soul of this working-class neighborhood is Walt's Café, a mom and pop corner bar.There you...

When her mother gets cancer, beloved, privileged Ariane Leo is forced to agree to a dying woman’s request; if her mother passes away, Arinae will go to her estranged father, Jonathan Leo, and make a home for herself across the country in New York City with four brothers she has never met and a...

Ava London lives a life straight out of a James Bond movie...and she loves every thrilling second. But one rogue move lands her out on her ass with every detail of her high-profile life erased and blocked in an instant. Ava is burned and devastated, but she's also determined to get right...

When her mother gets cancer, beloved, privileged Ariane Leo is forced to agree to a dying woman’s request; if her mother passes away, Arinae will go to her estranged father, Jonathan Leo, and make a home for herself across the country in New York City with four brothers she has never met and a...

STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates...

Micala Constance has been brought up around royalty all of her life, and she has no patience for the spoiled antics of rich princes. When her beloved uncle and the king of the tiny principality Connely asks Micala to speak to his prodigal son, she is reluctant. Only the possibility that...

Starting and Finishing the Paper: A How-to Guide to Quality College Papers, Second Edition is an excellent book for college students having difficulties with writing their college papers. It is a fun and step-by-step approach from start to finish.Starting and Finishing the Paper covers how to start a...

Tennessee Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennessee Williams's four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts - 1940, '41, '44 and '47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown, Williams fell in love unguardedly for perhaps the only time in his...

The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch,...

An essay by film historian John DiLeo about the film The Palm Beach Story (1942) directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert and Rudy Vallee. Excerpted from John DiLeos Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, The Palm Beach Story (1942): The Deadpan Among the Zanies....

Anna Magnani is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Anna Magnanis roles in the films The Rose Tattoo (1955) and The Fugitive Kind (1960), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides additional...

Getting to the Task, Part One includes practical exercises for class and rehearsals, techniques for analyzing a text for tasks, techniques for maintaining and deepening performances, examples from film to study, and a useful working vocabulary. It explains how other approaches might expand Stanislavskys...

Marlon Brando is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Marlon Brando's roles in the films A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and The Fugitive Kind (1960), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides...

Katharine Hepburn stars in what play at the climax of Stage Door? Can you name the classic in which a cigarette is put out in a jar of cold cream? What star (not Alan Ladd) is the top-billed male in This Gun for Hire? If you think you know classic movies, well, prepare to be challenged as never before....