
Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation
Book
Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic...

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
Book
From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate—and often hilarious—history of a...
Art History

Angels in America: Parts One and Two
Book
Part One of "Angels in America", subtitled "Millennium Approaches", erupted on to the stage of the...

Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
Book
On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed...
comedy film

What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man
Book
From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel--a memoir (of sorts): artful, moving,...
Music biography