Eric Bentley

In the mid-1950's, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to "name names," and the steep price paid by those who refused. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: René Auberjonois, Edward Asner, Bonnie Bedelia, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Richard Dreyfuss,...

Not One Sparrow Is Forgotten: A Weekly Poem to Build Faith in Christ is a book that consists of fifty-two inspiring poems. The enlightening poems are written from a first-person perspective and bring to life some of the most miraculous and faith building moments found in the Scriptures. Want to know what it was like for Peter to walk out on water with his eyes fixed on the Savior? How did it feel for the young boy who only had two loaves of bread...

George Bernard Shaw's story of speech therapist Henry Higgins, who successfully transforms Liza Doolittle, a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe," into a darling of high society who momentarily upsets his hard-edged reserve. This edition of Pygmalion includes the analysis of Eric Bentley from his book Bernard Shaw. Essential biographical and historical background is provided, together with notes, critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading. A unique...

Based on John Gay's eighteenth century "Beggar's Opera," "The Threepenny Opera," first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. With Kurt Weill's unforgettable music - one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz to the theatre - it became a popular hit throughout the western world.