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Henley, Beth was born on May 8, 1952 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Josephine (Becker) Henley.
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The Lucky Spot.
(Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one o...)
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one of her most colorful tales, as she follows a hilarious band of ne er-do-wells trying to scratch dreams from the Louisiana mud. It is Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open the hottest new taxi-dancing emporium in Louisiana and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jean Smart, Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Jim McLure, Laurel Moglen, Elizabeth Ruscio, and Kurtwood Smith.
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The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley, Henley, Beth (1998) Paperback
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Beth Henley: Monologues for Women by Henley, Beth (1992) Paperback
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The Lucky Spot. by Beth Henley, Henley, Beth (1998) Paperback
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The Miss Firecracker contest: A play
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Crimes of the Heart : Dramatists Play Service
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Beth Henley: Monologues for Women
(A collection of monologues edited from "The Wake of Jamey...)
A collection of monologues edited from "The Wake of Jamey Foster", "Abundance", "The Lucky Spot", "The Miss Firecracker Contest", and the Pulitzer Prize winning "Crimes of the Heart".
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Am I Blue
(Book by Beth Henley)
Book by Beth Henley
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CRIMES OF TEH HEART
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The Miss Firecracker Contest The Miss Firecracker Contest
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: The Miss Firecracker Contest Author: Henley, Beth Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 1995/06/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 85154155
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Revelers - Acting Edition
(Book by Beth Henley)
Book by Beth Henley
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The Miss Firecracker Contest
(A play by Beth Henley.)
A play by Beth Henley.
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(The Miss Firecracker Contest) Author: Beth Henley published on (July, 2001)
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Crimes of the Heart.
(This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny...)
This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their familys painful past. A BBC co-production. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ray Baker, Donna Bullock, Arye Gross, Glenne Headly, Sondra Locke and Belita Moreno.
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Playbill for the Original Broadway Production of Crimes of the Heart - John Golden Theatre - February 1982
(This eighty-two page issue of Playbill for the John Golde...)
This eighty-two page issue of Playbill for the John Golden Theatre (February 1982) documents the original Broadway production of Beth Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART, which won the Pulitzer Prize and N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The original cast consisted of Mia Dillon, Mary Beth Hurt, Lizbeth Mackay, Sharon Ulrick, Tim Choate, and Tom Stechschulte; multiple award-winning Melvin Bernhardt (DA, THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, etc.) Program contents include title page with credits, three production black/white photos, head shots of the actors, cast information, "Who's Who" - including information about the Manhattan Theatre Club, where the play premiered - full staff, and complete credits. Features (with photos/drawings) include articles about Suzanne Pleshette and Richard Mulligan returning to Broadway in Bernard Slade's SPECIAL OCCASIONS, backstage romances, the charity performance of NOEL and GERTIE, and Tom Lehrer's take on his Off-Broadway revue TOMFOOLERY. Popular monthly columns (such as "Theatre Life with Robinson" - featuring his drawings of THE DRESSER, among others) complete this issue, which will appeal to avid theatregoers and fans of Beth Henley's work.
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- the Miss Firecracker Contest (1984 Nelson Doubleday hardcover, Beth Henley (Crimes of t...)
- The Miss Firecracker Contest.
- Am I Blue by Beth Henley (1982-10-01)
- (Crimes of the Heart) Author: Beth Henley published on (January, 1982)
- Beth Henley: Monologues for Women by Beth Henley (1992-11-03)
Beth Henley
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Bachelor of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University, 1974. Bachelor of Fine Arts, University Illinois, 1976.
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Playbill for the Original Broadway Production of Crimes of the Heart - John Golden Theatre - February 1982
(This eighty-two page issue of Playbill for the John Golde...)
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Beth Henley: Monologues for Women
(A collection of monologues edited from "The Wake of Jamey...)
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The Lucky Spot.
(Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one o...)
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Crimes of the Heart.
(This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny...)
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the Miss Firecracker Contest
(1984 Nelson Doubleday hardcover, Beth Henley (Crimes of t...)
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The Miss Firecracker Contest The Miss Firecracker Contest
(Book annotation not available for this title. Title: The ...)
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The Miss Firecracker Contest
(A play by Beth Henley.)
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Am I Blue
(Book by Beth Henley)
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Revelers - Acting Edition
(Book by Beth Henley)
- The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley, Henley, Beth (1998) Paperback
- Beth Henley: Monologues for Women by Henley, Beth (1992) Paperback
- The Lucky Spot. by Beth Henley, Henley, Beth (1998) Paperback
- The Miss Firecracker contest: A play
- Crimes of the Heart : Dramatists Play Service
- The Miss Firecracker Contest.
- CRIMES OF TEH HEART
- (The Miss Firecracker Contest) Author: Beth Henley published on (July, 2001)
- Am I Blue by Beth Henley (1982-10-01)
- (Crimes of the Heart) Author: Beth Henley published on (January, 1982)
- Beth Henley: Monologues for Women by Beth Henley (1992-11-03)
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Playbill for the Original Broadway Production of Crimes of the Heart - John Golden Theatre - February 1982
