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FROM: "Rolf W. Laun" <[removed]@swbell.net>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 7:16 AM

I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that deal
with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as well
as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is interested.

->Rolf<-
Fiction - San Antonio Public Library

FROM: Deborah Roy <[removed]@skyenet.net>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 8:18 AM

If you're willing to use YA titles, try THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER and THE SHAKESPEARE
SCRIBE by Gary Lockwood. Wonderful reads, especially for Shakespeare fans.

Deborah Roy
Huntington City Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana

"Rolf W. Laun" wrote:

> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is interested.
>
> ->Rolf<-
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Deborah Roy <[removed]@skyenet.net>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 8:18 AM

I hit the "send" button too early...

Nora Roberts has two books you might include-

HIDDEN RICHES - the main female character's family are actors.

HONEST ILLUSIONS - focuses on a family of magicians who are also skilled jewel and
art thieves.

Deborah Roy
Huntington City Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana

"Rolf W. Laun" wrote:

> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is interested.
>
> ->Rolf<-
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Susan LaBelle <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 8:29 AM

Edward Marston has written a series of mysteries centering on "Westfield's
Men" - an Elizabethan Theater Company. Titles are The Roaring Boy, The
Silent Woman, The Queen's Head, The Merry Devils, The Mad Courtesan, and
so on. The "putting on" of plays is always involved.

*******************************************************************************
Susan LaBelle Voice 248.647.1700
Librarian Fax 248.647.6393
Adult Reading
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
Birmingham, Michigan 48009

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/27/01, 8:39 AM

"A mystery of errors" by Simon Hawke is a mystery set in Elizabethan times in which the main character is an aspiring actor and his friend, Will Shakespeare, is an aspiring playwright.

FROM: "Pam Wheeler" <[removed]@npls.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 8:59 AM

Ngaio Marsh did some mysteries that take place in a theatre setting.
Also, Elizabeth George's mystery <Payment in Blood>

Pam Wheeler, Assistant Director
Newark Public Library
101 West Main Street
Newark, OH 43055-5054
Phone: 740-349-5570
Fax: 740-349-5575


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From: "Rolf W. Laun" <[removed]@swbell.net>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:08:29 -0600
Subject: The Theatre in Fiction

>
> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books
> that deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that
> revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as
> well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is
> interested.
>
> ->Rolf<-
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
>
> .....................................................................
> .
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Cynthia Orr" <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 9:10 AM

These books are about a professor, but she's married to an actor:

MAGGIE RYAN Mysteries
Main Character(s): Maggie Ryan, Statistician / Professor
Location: New York City, New York, USA

1 - Audition for Murder (1985)
2 - Murder Is Academic (1985)
3 - Murder Is Pathological (1986)
4 - Murder Unrenovated (1989)
5 - Rehearsal for Murder (1989)
6 - Murder in the Dog Days (1990)
7 - Murder Misread (1990)
8 - Bad Blood (1991)

and

these are about Wall Street Headhunters, but one of them is a former Broadway
dancer and they often revolve around theatre in New York:

Meyers, Annette -- Annette Meyers

SMITH AND WETZON Mysteries
Main Character(s): Xenia Smith, Wall Street Headhunter &
Leslie Wetzon,
Wall Street Headhunter
Location: Manhattan, New York, USA

1 - The Big Killing (1989)
2 - Tender Death (1990)
3 - The Deadliest Option (1991)
4 - Blood on the Street (1992)
5 - Murder: the Musical (1993)
6 - These Bones Were Made for Dancin' (1995)
7 - The Groaning Board (1997)

Sleuths whose occupation is Actor or Actress:
http://www.bookbrowser.com/Sleuths/Acting.html

also:
Scene of the Crime by Jill McGown
Fourth Wall by Beth Saulnier
Audition for Murder by Susan Sussman
The Rhythm of Revenge by Christine Spindler
Bliss Jumps the Gun by Bob Sloan
Back Stage Murder by Shelly Freydont
A Mystery of Errors by Simon Hawke

"Rolf W. Laun" wrote:

> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that deal
> with the theatre. --

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Cynthia Orr Email: [removed]@cpl.org
Collection Manager Phone: 216-623-2906
Cleveland Public Library Fax: 216-623-2977
17133 Lake Shore Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44110 http://www.cpl.org
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FROM: "Brenda O'Brien" <[removed]@sls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 9:22 AM

I have two more for your list:

I just finished reading Be My Valentine, by Sheila Rabe, partly set at
Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theater. Main character is an actress.

Also Jayne Ann Krentz's Trust Me. Desdemona is part of an eccentric
theater family.

Brenda O'Brien
Woodridge Public Library
[removed]@sls.lib.il.us

FROM: "Archer, Ann" <[removed]@library.ottawa.on.ca>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 9:22 AM

In The Wings by Carole Corbeil, is a novel about the theatre world in
Toronto.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rolf W. Laun
To: Fiction_L
Sent: 3/27/01 8:08 AM
Subject: The Theatre in Fiction


I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that
deal
with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as
well
as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is
interested.

->Rolf<-
Fiction - San Antonio Public Library

FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 9:32 AM

Jane Dentlinger and Ann Morice have mystery series featuring stage
actresses. Simon Brett's Charles Paris series are theatrical mysteries.
Barbara Paul has some mysteries with a theatrical background - The
Apostrophe Thief and The Fourth Wall - and also some mysteries with opera
stars.

FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 10:04 AM

I suggest Simon Brett's Charles Paris mystery series.
Also, in Sara Woods's series on barrister Anthony
Maitland, one of the Maitlands' best friends is an
actress so a few of the books might suit your list.

Bookbrowser has lists for mysteries by occupation of
the sleuth:
http://www.bookbrowser.com/Sleuths/Acting.html

Vicki Biehl
Pearl River Public Library
Pearl River, NY

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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 10:14 AM

Here is a bibliography of thetre mysteries from 1997.

Also, I'd like to recommend these theatrical novels: Anthony Burgess's A DEATH IN DEPTFORD; George Garrett's ENTERED FROM THE SUN; Michael Malone's FOOLSCAP; Mary Renault's THE MASK OF APOLLO; Martha Rofheart's THE SAVAGE BROOD and Dodie Smith's IT ENDS WITH REVEATIONS.

SOME THEATRICAL MYSTERIES

Allingham, Margery Dancers in Mourning (1937).

Babson, Marian Reel Murder (1988).
Encore Murder (1989).
Shadows in Their Blood (1993).
Even Yuppies Die (1996).
Break a Leg, Darlings (1997).
Nine Lives to Murder (1992).

Bagby, George Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand (1953).

Barnard, Robert Death and the Chaste Apprentice (1989).

Barnes, Linda Bitter Finish (1983).
Dead Heat (1984).
A Trouble of Fools (1987).

Baxt, George The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case (1987).

Blain, W. Edward Passion Play (1990).
Love Cools (1992).

Brett, Simon The Dead Side of the Mike (1980).
Situation Tragedy (1981).
Murder Unprompted (1982).
Murder in the Title (1983).
What Bloody Man is That? (1987).
A Series of Murders (1989).

Carlson, P.M. Rehearsal for Murder (1988).

Clinton-Baddeley, V.C. Death's Bright Dart (1970).

Cook, Judith The Slicing Edge of Death (1993).

Crane, Hamilton Starring Miss Seaton (1994).

Dentinger, Jane First Hit of the Season (1984).
Murder on Cue (1983).
Death Mask: a Jocelyn O'Roarke Mystery (1988).
Dead Pan: a Jocelyn O'Roarke Mystery (1992)
The Queen is Dead: a Jocelyn O'Roarke Mystery (1994).
Who Dropped Peter Pan? a Jocelyn O'Roarke Mystery (1995).

Farrell, Gillian B. Alibi for an Actress (1992).
Murder and a Muse (1994).

Graham, Caroline Death of a Hollow Man (1989).

Grayson, Richard Death Off Stage (1992).

Grimes, Martha The Dirty Duck (1984).

Hall, Parnell Actor (1993).
Movie (1996).

Hall, Robert Lee Murder at Drury Lane (1992).

Hart, Carolyn Something Wicked (1988).

Hart, Ellen A Small Sacrifice: a Jane Lawless Mystery (1994).

Hill, Reginald Bones and Silence (1990).

Hilton, John Buxton Fatal Curtain (1990).

Hunter, Fred W. Presence of Mind (1994).

Innes, Michael Hamlet, Revenge! (1937).

Kyd, Thomas Blood on the Bosom Devine (1947).

Lockridge, Frances & Richard Death on the Aisle (1942).
Death Takes a Bow (1943).

Lovesey, Peter Abracadaver (1974).

McBain, Ed Ice (1983).

Marsh, Ngaio Final Curtain (1947).
Enter a Murderer (1941).
Killer Dolphin (1966).
Night at the Vulcan (1951).
Light Thickens (1982).
Hand in Glove (1962).
False Scent (1960).
Overture to Death (1976).

Marshall, William The New York Detective (1989).

Marston, Edward The Queen's Head (1989).
The Merry Devils (1990).
The Trip to Jerusalem (1991).
The Nine Giants (1992).
The Mad Courtesan (1993).
The Laughing Hangman (1994).
The Silent Woman (1995).
The Roaring Boy (1996).
The Fair Maid of Bohemia (1997).

Meyers, Annette Murder: the Musical (1993)
These Bones Were Made for Dancin': a Smith & Wetzon Mystery (1995).

Miles, John Murder in Retirement: a Laura Michaels Mystery (1994).

Morice, Anne Dead on Cue (1986).
Death and the Dutiful Daughter (1973).
Death in the Grand Manner (1970).
Death in the Round (1980).
Death of a Heavenly Twin (1974).
Death of a Wedding Guest (1976).
Design for Dying (1988).
Fatal Charm (1989).
Getting Away with Murder (1984).
Hollow Vengeance (1982).
Killing with Kindness (1974).
The Men in Her Death (1981).
Murder by Proxy (1978).
Murder in Married Life (1971).
Murder in Mimicry (1977).
Murder in Outline (1979).
Murder Post-dated (1983).
Nursery Tea and Poison (1975).
Planning for Murder (1991).
Publish and Be Killed (1986).
Scared to Death (1977).
Sleep of Death (1983).
Treble Exposure (1988).

Myers, Amy Murder in the Limelight (1987).

Paul, Barbara The Apostrophe Thief (1993).
The Fourth Wall (1979).
You Have the Right to Remain Silent: a Mystery with Marian Larch (1992).

Queen, Ellery Drury Lane's Last Case (1933).
The Tragedy of X (1930).
The Tragedy of Y (1931).
The Tragedy of Z (1932).

Quentin, Patrick A Puzzle for Fools (1936).
A Puzzle for Players (1938).

Resnicow, Herbert The Gold Gamble (1988).

Shaw, Simon Bloody Instructions (1992).
The Company of Knaves (1998).

Snyder, Keith Show Control (1996).

Tourney, Leonard The Player's Boy is Dead (1981).

Unsworth, Barry Morality Play (1995).

Wilhelm, Kate The Hamlet Trap: a Charlie Meiklejohn/Constance Leidl Mystery (1987).

Wright, Eric A Sensitive Case (1990).
A Fine Italian Hand (1992).

Yaeger, Dorian Cancellation by Death: a Victoria Bowering Mystery (1992).
Eviction by Death (1993).
Ovation by Death (1996).

12/97

Prepared by Barbara Hahn & Marsha Valance for the January 1998 meeting of Cloak'n'Clue. Ackowledgements to Marilyn Stasio, Laura Thisbe, and the staff of Booked for Murder.

Enjoy!


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@fortworthlibrary.org 03/27/01 09:09AM >>>

Jane Dentlinger and Ann Morice have mystery series featuring stage
actresses. Simon Brett's Charles Paris series are theatrical mysteries.
Barbara Paul has some mysteries with a theatrical background - The
Apostrophe Thief and The Fourth Wall - and also some mysteries with opera
stars.

FROM: Lesa Holstine <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 10:25 AM

There are a number of mystery writers that feature the
theater.

Linda Barnes did a series featuring Michael Spraggue,
a wealthy actor - Blood Will Have Blood, Bitter
Finish, Dead Heat, Cities of the Dead.

Carol Brennan's books featuring Emily Silver - In the
Dark, Chill of Summer

Molly Brown's series features Aprha Behn, a 17th
century spy turned playwright - Invitation to a
Funeral, The Lemon Juice Plot.

Jane Dentinger has a whole series featuring Jocelyn
O'Roarke, a Broadway actor and director.

Eileen Dewhurst's Helen Johnson series features an
actress recruited by the Secret Service in London.

Stefanie Matteson has a series featuring Charlotte
Graham, an Oscar-winning actress.

Annette Meyers has a terrific series featuring Leslie
Wetzon & Xenia Smith, that uses her Broadway
background.

That's it for now.

Lesa Holstine
[removed]@yahoo.com
Ft. Myers, FL

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FROM: Lesa Holstine <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 10:35 AM

Here are a few more mystery series featuring the
Theater.

Lydia Adamson's series featuring Alice Nestleton, a
part-time actress.

Simon Brett's Charles Paris series.

Edward Marston's series features Nicholas Bracewell, a
stage manager for an Elizabethan acting company.

Lesa Holstine
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Ft. Myers, FL

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FROM: "Deborah T. Walsh" <[removed]@dupagels.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 10:57 AM

Morality play by Barry Unsworth (1995) is a wonderful piece of historical
fiction about the nature of the theater. It is quite literate (he's a
Booker Prize winning author) but this book is part murder mystery, part
thriller.

Deborah T. Walsh
Geneva Public Library District
Geneva, IL
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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 10:57 AM

I haven't read it, but I've heard good things about "Morality Play" by Barry
Unsworth - the story of a traveling theatre troupe in 14th century England.

Also, "Winterlong" by Elizabeth Hand has a traveling theatre troupe and is a
science fiction book set in a post-apocalyptic future.


Vicki Novak
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

Adult Services
North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032-1201

http://mcld.maricopa.gov

FROM: Kaite Mediatore <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 11:30 AM

They're marketed as YA but adults will enjoy them, both
books are by Kate Gilmore: _Jason and the Bard_ and _Enter
Three Witches_. Excellent reading for YAs interested in the
theatre and just darn good reading for adults.

Kaite

--- "Rolf W. Laun" <[removed]@swbell.net> wrote:
>
> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused
> around books that deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything
> that revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is
> fair game as well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any
> suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any
> one is interested.
>
> ->Rolf<-
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
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KCKPL Main Branch
625 Minnesota Ave.
Kansas City, KS 66101
913.279.2212 fx 913.279.2032
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FROM: "Laura McCaffery" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 12:01 PM

Ellen Hart has mysteries that are set in Minneapolis and the best friend of the main character is a community theatre person.

>>> [removed]@dupagels.lib.il.us 03/27/01 01:50PM >>>
Morality play by Barry Unsworth (1995) is a wonderful piece of historical
fiction about the nature of the theater. It is quite literate (he's a
Booker Prize winning author) but this book is part murder mystery, part
thriller.

Deborah T. Walsh
Geneva Public Library District
Geneva, IL
[removed]@dupagels.lib.il.us

FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 12:33 PM

An oldie but goodie, perhaps somewhat hard to find:

Carla Kelly, MISS BILLINGS TREADS THE BOARDS.
Regency romance wherein a nobleman on the lam from his overbearing family
falls in with a troupe of actors.

Kind of similar is Mary Jo Putney's ONE PERFECT ROSE - only this time the
nobleman thinks he's dying, and wants to do something fun before his time
is up.

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 12:33 PM

A couple more YA books would include Susan Cooper's book, King of Shadows, about a boy who goes back in time and ends up performing in a play with Shakespeare, and Julius Lester's book, Othello: a Novel, based on the play by Shakespeare.

Lisa


Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

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>>> [removed]@yahoo.com 03/27/01 10:23AM >>>
They're marketed as YA but adults will enjoy them, both
books are by Kate Gilmore: _Jason and the Bard_ and _Enter
Three Witches_. Excellent reading for YAs interested in the
theatre and just darn good reading for adults.

Kaite

--- "Rolf W. Laun" <[removed]@swbell.net> wrote:
>
> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused
> around books that deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything
> that revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is
> fair game as well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any
> suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any
> one is interested.
>
> ->Rolf<
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
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KCKPL Main Branch
625 Minnesota Ave.
Kansas City, KS 66101
913.279.2212 fx 913.279.2032
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FROM: "Archer, Ann" <[removed]@library.ottawa.on.ca>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 12:45 PM

2 literary offerings:

The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies features the production of an opera,
and The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt, the first in her trilogy,
devotes a prominent part to an Elizabethan play (as far as I can recall!).

-----Original Message-----
From: Rolf W. Laun
To: Fiction_L
Sent: 3/27/01 8:08 AM
Subject: The Theatre in Fiction


I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that
deal
with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as
well
as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is
interested.

->Rolf<-
Fiction - San Antonio Public Library

FROM: "Michaela Haberkern" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 12:55 PM

Doris Lessing's Love, Again is about a theatrical producer and a play she commissions.


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FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 1:16 PM

Just a few that I don't think I have seen yet:

Anthony Burgess -- A Dead Man in Deptford (about the murder of Elizabethan
playwright Christopher Marlowe)
Robert Nye -- The Late Mr. Shakespeare and Mrs. Shakespeare: Her Complete
Works (two very different looks at the Bard and his environment)
Robertson Davies -- esp. Tempest-Tost (but there also some wonderful
stagecraft sequences in Fifth Business and perhaps elsewhere in his other
novels)
Charles Dickens -- the section of Nicholas Nickleby where our hero joins a
theatrical troupe is wonderful
Faye Kellerman --The Quality of Mercy -- basically "Shakespeare in Love"
years before the film
Caroline Graham -- Death of a Hollow Man (one of the Inspector Barnaby
series, in which the murder takes place within the context of a community
theater production)
John Varley -- The Golden Globe. A marvelous SF adventure set in Varley's
Luna universe, in which the main character is an actor (among many other
things...). Highly theatrical, full of theater in-references -- a big hit
with all my chums from my pre-library arts management career, even if they
don't much care for SF.
Stephanie Cowell -- The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare
Faith Sullivan -- The Empress of One
Judith Cook -- The Slicing Edge of Death (another Christopher Marlowe murder
scenario)
Penelope Fitzgerald -- At Freddie's (young hopefuls at a London theatre
school)
Tricia Bauer -- Hollywood and Hardwood (actress and playwright who meet in
summer stock and come into personal and professional conflicts as they
struggle together for fame and fortune)
Susan Sontag -- In America (famous actress from Europe emigrates to
California in 1870s and creates new identity)
Sara Hoskinson Frommer -- Murder and Sullivan (although this series features
a classical musician, in this particular entry, she is playing with a local
Gilbert & Sullivan company, so I think it counts as theater)

I'm sure I will think of more -- and I look forward to this list.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:17 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: The Theatre in Fiction


An oldie but goodie, perhaps somewhat hard to find:

Carla Kelly, MISS BILLINGS TREADS THE BOARDS.
Regency romance wherein a nobleman on the lam from his overbearing family
falls in with a troupe of actors.

Kind of similar is Mary Jo Putney's ONE PERFECT ROSE - only this time the
nobleman thinks he's dying, and wants to do something fun before his time
is up.

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Lynn K. Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 1:57 PM

I don't know why I keep remembering titles after I click on "Send" all the
time, but Karen Sturges has written a series of mysteries in which the main
character is the widow of a famous conductor and finds herself involved in
opera and Gilbert and Sullivan productions--DEATH OF A BARITONE, and DEATH
OF A POO-BAH.
Lynn K. Silence Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
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no longer cope...they begat libraries, and the Lord said, 'I don't
know what else we can do.' " Anonymous

FROM: "Lynn K. Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 1:57 PM

I was so delighted to see someone mention Dodie Smith! A TOWN IN BLOOM is
another of hers with a theatre background. And although it's a play and a
movie, Edna Ferber & George Kaufman's STAGE DOOR is wonderful. I don't
remember if anyone mentioned Mollie Hardwick's PERISH IN JULY.
Lynn K. Silence Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: 636-227-1138 Fax: 636-227-9632
"In the beginning there was the book, and the book inspired
and angered others to write books, and when the people could
no longer cope...they begat libraries, and the Lord said, 'I don't
know what else we can do.' " Anonymous

FROM: "Jeanne Ryan" <[removed]@njpublib.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 1:57 PM

One of Elswyeth Thane's Willliamsburg's series--Ever After--dealt with
theatre in NYC in the 1880's...and then Homing deals with it during WWII.
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From: Archer, Ann <[removed]@library.ottawa.on.ca>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: The Theatre in Fiction


> 2 literary offerings:
>
> The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies features the production of an
opera,
> and The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt, the first in her trilogy,
> devotes a prominent part to an Elizabethan play (as far as I can recall!).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rolf W. Laun
> To: Fiction_L
> Sent: 3/27/01 8:08 AM
> Subject: The Theatre in Fiction
>
>
> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that
> deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as
> well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is
> interested.
>
> ->Rolf<-
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
>
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FROM: Lisa Olsen <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 2:08 PM

Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey is about a woman who had dreamed of being
an opera star.
Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums also by Anne McCaffrey are about
professional entertainers.
In Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay the main characters pretend to be
entertainers as a cover for their work as freedom fighters.

And in Novelist I found the following.
A Company of Stars by Christopher Stasheff
Booklist Review: Stasheff's long-awaited breakthrough into hardcover is
the first in a series punningly entitled Starship Troupers. It begins the
tale of a traveling stock theatrical company obliged to hastily leave
Earth to avoid right-wing religious fanatics. Stasheff has his share of
flaws, and parts of the book are yet another artist's grumble against
caricatured conservatives. However, he also has a lifelong association
with the theater, and his knowledge of and love for it breathe life into
the greater part of the book. It's the best work from Stasheff in some
time, recommended for nearly any collection.
((Reviewed Sept. 15, 1991)) -- Roland Green


__________________________________________________

Lisa A. Olsen

Information Services

Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
East Regional Library
4809 Clinton Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301-8401

(910)485-2955

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/27/01, 2:20 PM

Mary Jo Putney's ONE PERFECT ROSE is set against the background of itinerant
theatre in the English countryside.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 2:30 PM

This reminds me of "The Devil in Music" by the late, great Kate Ross, the
last in the mystery series featuring Julian Kestrel. While a mystery, the
story revolves around opera singing in the 18th century. Lots of details
about La Scala, etc.
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn K. Silence [[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 1:48 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Theatre in fiction


I was so delighted to see someone mention Dodie Smith! A TOWN IN BLOOM is
another of hers with a theatre background. And although it's a play and a
movie, Edna Ferber & George Kaufman's STAGE DOOR is wonderful. I don't
remember if anyone mentioned Mollie Hardwick's PERISH IN JULY.
Lynn K. Silence Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: 636-227-1138 Fax: 636-227-9632
"In the beginning there was the book, and the book inspired
and angered others to write books, and when the people could
no longer cope...they begat libraries, and the Lord said, 'I don't
know what else we can do.' " Anonymous

FROM: "Denese Young" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 2:30 PM

Don't forget MASKERADE, WYRD SISTERS, and MOVING PICTURES by Terry Pratchett. MASKERADE complements Phantom of the Opera, WYRD SISTERS is very "Macbeth", and MOVING PICTURES is all about the Holy Wood, or, as we know it, Hollywood.

Denese Young
St. Louis County Library
[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us

FROM: Elizabeth Manar <[removed]@galegroup.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 2:52 PM

Here are a few titles that have the theatre as part of the story; all were
found using "Custom Search: Subject = Theatre" in What Do I Read Next?
online.

Ackroyd, Peter
English Music

Ackroyd, Peter
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders

Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Banner by the Wayside

Albery, Nobuko
The House of Kanze

Anthony, Michael David
Midnight Come

Ashfield, Helen
Opal

Babson, Naomi Lane
I Am Lidian

Bainbridge, Beryl
An Awfully Big Adventure

Barker, Shirley
Liza Bowe

Barnes, Linda
Blood Will Have Blood

Barnet, Miguel
Rachel's Song: A Novel

Baxt, George
The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case

Berstl, Julius
Kean: The Imaginary Memoirs of an Actor

Brent, Madeleine
The Capricorn Stone

Brophy, John
Gentleman of Stratford

Brown, Mary
Playing the Jack

Brown, Wesley
Darktown Strutters

Bryher
The Player's Boy

Buckmaster, Henrietta
All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Buckmaster, Henrietta
Fire in the Heart

Burgess, Anthony
A Dead Man in Deptford

Burgess, Anthony
Nothing Like the Sun

Burton, Philip
You, My Brother: A Novel Based on the Lives of Edmund and William
Shakespeare

Byatt, A.S.
The Virgin in the Garden

Chapman, Hester W.
Lucy

Cleeve, Brian
Kate

Cloud, Patricia
This Willing Passion

Coffman, Virginia
Mistress Devon

Conley, Robert J.
Quitting Time

Conley, Robert J.
The Actor

Cost, March
I, Rachel

Cowell, Stephanie
Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest

Crane, Teresa
Sweet Songbird

Darcy, Clare
Caroline and Julia

Davis, Lindsey
Last Act in Palmyra

Delman, David
The Bluestocking

DeMaria, Robert
To Be a King

Dolbier, Maurice
Benjy Boone

Dolbier, Maurice
The Mortal Gods

Drummond, Emma
A Captive Freedom

Dunlap, Katharine
The Glory and the Dream

Ellis, Julie
Glorious Morning

Estleman, Loren D.
This Old Bill

Ferber, Edna
Show Boat

Fitzgerald, Penelope
At Freddie's

Getz, William
Sam Patch: Ballad of a Jumping Man

Gotanda, Philip Kan
Fish Head Soup and Other Plays

Grayson, Richard
Death Off Stage

Grayson, Richard
The Monterant Affair

Green, Carl and Sanford, William
House of Fear

Gross, Joel
Sarah

Hall, Robert Lee
Murder at Drury Lane: Further Adventures of the American Agent in London

Hamilton, Tamsin
The Gypsy from Cadiz

Hardwick, Mollie
Lovers Meeting

Hardwick, Mollie
The Crystal Dove

Hardwick, Mollie
The Shakespeare Girl

Harris, MacDonald
Herma

Hart, Ellen
Stage Fright

Heidish, Marcy
The Secret Annie Oakley

Henderson, Lauren
Freeze My Margarita: A Sam Jones Novel

Herman, George
Carnival of Saints

High, Monique Raphel
Encore

Husted, Darrell
Louisa Brancusi

Hwang, David Henry
FOB and Other Plays

Ibbotson, Eva
A Company of Swans

Ibbotson, Eva
Magic Flutes

Jacquemard-Senecal
The Eleventh Little Indian

Jance, J.A.
Failure to Appear

Jenkins, Burris Atkins
The Bracegirdle

Johnson, Pamela Hansford
Catherine Carter

Jordan, Jan
Dim the Flaring Lamps

Kennelly, Ardyth
The Spur

Keppel, Charlotte
My Name Is Clary Brown

Komroff, Manuel
Feast of the Jesters

Laine, Annabel
The Melancholy Virgin

Lee, Lilian
Farewell to My Concubine

Lessing, Doris
Love, Again

Levy, Barbara
Adrienne

Liddon, Eloise S.
Some Lose Their Way

Lindop, Audrey Erskine
The Way to the Lantern

Linscott, Gillian
Stage Fright

Lorens, M.K.
Sorrowheart

Lovelace, Maud Hart
Charming Sally

Lovelace, Maud Hart
The Black Angels

Lovesey, Peter
Abracadaver

Lyle, Elizabeth
Cassy

MacInnes, Colin
Three Years to Play

Mackey, Mary
A Grand Passion

Malpass, Eric
A House of Women

Malpass, Eric
Sweet Will

Malpass, Eric
The Cleopatra Boy

Marshall, Edison
The Infinite Woman

Marshall, Edison
The Upstart

Marston, Edward
Nicholas Bracewell Series, which includes the following 9 titles:

Marston, Edward
The Laughing Hangman

Marston, Edward
The Mad Courtesan

Marston, Edward
The Merry Devils

Marston, Edward
The Nine Giants

Marston, Edward
The Queen's Head

Marston, Edward
The Roaring Boy

Marston, Edward
The Silent Woman

Marston, Edward
The Trip to Jerusalem

Marston, Edward
The Wanton Angel

McBain, Ed
The Last Dance

Meyer, Nicholas
The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.

Michael, Judith
Acts of Love

Morris, Gilbert
The Jeweled Spur

Mortimer, John
Will Shakespeare: The Untold Story

Nye, Robert
The Late Mr. Shakespeare

O'Shaughnessy, Michael
Monsieur Moliere

Paul, Barbara
A Cadenza for Caruso

Paul, Barbara
A Chorus of Detectives

Paul, Barbara
Prima Donna at Large

Perry, Anne
Half Moon Street

Plaidy, Jean
Goddess of the Green Room

Plaidy, Jean
Perdita's Prince

Powers, Anne
Rachel

Randall, Rona
The Eagle at the Gate

Randall, Rona
The Mating Dance

Rayner, Claire
Bedford Row

Rayner, Claire
Charing Cross

Rayner, Claire
Chelsea Reach

Rayner, Claire
Covent Garden

Rayner, Claire
Gower Street

Rayner, Claire
Piccadilly

Rayner, Claire
Soho Square

Rayner, Claire
The Haymarket

Reade, Charles
Peg Woffington

Renault, Mary
The Mask of Apollo

Robinson, Patricia
A Trick of Light

Rofheart, Martha
The Savage Brood

Sabatini, Rafael
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

Sand, George
Consuelo

Sayers, Dorothy L.
Six Against Scotland Yard

Scoppetone, Sandra
Trying Hard to Hear You

Service, Pamela F.
When the Night Wind Howls

Shine, Frances L.
Conjuror's Journal

Siciliano, Sam
The Angel of the Opera: Sherlock Holmes Meets the Phantom of the Opera

Smith, Kay Nolte
A Tale of the Wind: A Novel of 19th Century France

Stevenson, Janet
The Ardent Years

Stubbs, Jean
Eleanora Duse

Stubbs, Jean
The Golden Crucible

Sumner, Richard
Mistress of the Boards

Tey, Josephine
The Man in the Queue

Thorne, Nicola
Affairs of Love

Thorp, Roderick
Jenny and Barnum: A Novel of Love

Tourney, Leonard
The Player's Boy Is Dead

Unsworth, Barry
Morality Play

Weiss, David
The Spirit and the Flesh: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Isadora Duncan

Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker
The Eye of the Lion: A Novel Based on the Life of Mata Hari

Whitney, Phyllis A.
Domino

Elizabeth Manar
Contributing Editor, What Do I Read Next?

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those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved
by the Gale Group."

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 3:03 PM

One more -- THE PLAYMAKER by Tom Keneally is about a group of transported
convicts and their guards in Australia circa 1780 who are ordered to put on
a play to create a sense of community in the new colony. Needless to say,
nothing goes as the authorities expect it to...

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 3:35 PM

At 07:08 AM 3/27/01 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that deal
>with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
>around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as well
>as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
>appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is interested.
>
>->Rolf<-
>Fiction - San Antonio Public Library


A couple of mysteries that I don't recall anyone mentioning yet: HAMLET,
REVENGE! by Michael Innes and BULLETS FOR MACBETH by Marvin Kaye. Also,
if memory serves, Edmund Crispin's THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY. And if
opera counts, Robert Barnard's DEATH ON THE HIGH C'S (which also should
have been in the recent Punny Title thread...).

Add THE SERVANT'S TALE by "Margaret Frazer" and at least two by "M.D.
Lake" -- ONCE UPON A CRIME (involving a production of "The Emperor's
New Shoes") and more marginally MIDSUMMER MADNESS (murder of the night
watchman on a campus showboat). And Mike Ashley's anthologies of
mystery stories based on various Shakespearian and pseudo-Shakespearian
plays/plots: SHAKESPEARIAN DETECTIVES and SHAKESPEARIAN WHODUNNITS.

A few sf/f titles: DOOMSDAY MORNING by C.L. Moore; THE BIG TIME by
Fritz Leiber (ideally the Gregg Press version, which also includes
some related short stories, one of which "No Great Magic" is also
relevant); CASTING FORTUNE by John M. Ford; DRACHENFELS by "Jack
Yeovil" (Kim Newman); Paul Voerman's AND DISREGARDS THE REST;
Talbot Mundy's OM: THE SECRET OF AHBOR VALLEY (which, like parts
of Kipling's KIM, involves a theatrical troupe in outback India);
James Blaylock's THE RAINY SEASON (if I correctly recall reviews;
I've not read it); WHILOM by Robert Watson (which retells MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM in more earthy terms); Damien Broderick's THE WHITE
ABACUS (an sf recension of HAMLET); Jack Vance's SHOWBOAT WORLD

One of the Dr. Dolittle books (DR. DOLITTLE'S CARAVAN, I think)
involves Dr. D and the animals producing an opera. Caroline Stevermer's
juvenile RIVER RATS involves a post-apocalyptic US where a number of
kids band together to run a travelling riverboat show.

Mainstream but by an author best known for sf/f: SNOWBOUND by Bram
Stoker (used to be an impossibly rare book, but recently saw its
first-ever reprint); a group of travelling players swap stories of
their theatrical pasts while snowed in. And Tom Holt's wonderful
GOAT SONG and sequel THE WALLED ORCHARD (both also published in an
omnibus under the latter title) whose protagonist is Aristophanes'
greatest rival.

The above intends to stick pretty closely to legitimate theater and
related (vaudeville and such); if you expand to related fields like
carnival, magic shows, professional wrestling, musical concerts, and
especially motion pictures and television, many more could be adduced.

And there's lots of less-than-book-length short stories (in sf/f, I'd
think first of "The Darfstellar" by Walter Miller; "Four Ghosts in
Hamlet" and "No Great Magic" by Fritz Leiber; "Shadow Show" by Clifford
Simak; "The Visiting Star" by Robert Aickman...)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Saricks <[removed]@sls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 3:45 PM

I'm surprised Dennis missed John Varley's The Golden Globe--or did I miss
it from an earlier post?
Did anyone mention A Novel Approach to the Theatre by Linda Saver and Tom
Markus? Over 600 annotated titles.
And Susan Sussman's Chicago theatre series, beginning with Audition for
Murder.
Sorry for any repeats

Joyce Saricks
Downers Grove Public Library

Wer immer strebend sich bemueht, den koennen wir erloesen.
Goethe's Faust, Part 2, Act 5

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 3:56 PM

At 03:27 PM 3/27/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm surprised Dennis missed John Varley's The Golden Globe--or did I miss
>it from an earlier post?


I'd certainly strongly second THE GOLDEN GLOBE, which someone else had
indeed already listed--a wonderful book.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 3:56 PM

>Add THE SERVANT'S TALE by "Margaret Frazer" and at least two by "M.D.
>Lake" -- ONCE UPON A CRIME (involving a production of "The Emperor's
>New Shoes") <snip>

Argghhh! "The Emperor's New Clothes," of course. Late afternoon brainlock.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Bessie Makris" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 4:38 PM

Two other (science) fiction titles with a theater background are:
A COMPANY OF STARS and WE OPEN ON VENUS both by
Christopher Stasheff.

Two additonal title to add to the list are:
BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD by Linda Barnes
This novel features Michael Spragge, an actor, and an unlucky production of
Macbeth. It is the only one of the Michael Spragge books that has a theater setting.

CARNIVAL OF SAINTS by George Herman


Bessie Makris
Allen County Public Library
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

FROM: Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 5:43 PM

Also, at least one of the CAT WHO... mysteries
involves the local theater group.

Vicki Biehl

--- Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I suggest Simon Brett's Charles Paris mystery
> series.
> Also, in Sara Woods's series on barrister Anthony
> Maitland, one of the Maitlands' best friends is an
> actress so a few of the books might suit your list.
>
> Bookbrowser has lists for mysteries by occupation of
> the sleuth:
> http://www.bookbrowser.com/Sleuths/Acting.html
>
> Vicki Biehl
> Pearl River Public Library
> Pearl River, NY
>
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FROM: "Tom Dillie" <[removed]@wadsworth.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/28/01, 10:11 AM

Rolf,
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth follows a troop of players in 14th century
England as they perform mystery plays, and become, much to there dismay and
fear, involved in a murder. It's a short, rather compelling novel which also
provides a fair amount of information about the mechanics of performance and
the status of players.

Nicholas Cooke by Stephanie Cowell follows a young man who falls in with
players and playwrights in Elizabethan England. The same author's novel The
Players is a fictional biography of Shakespeare.

There's practically a sub-genre of novels about Christopher Marlowe,
playwright, friend and rival of Shakespeare, all-around rowdy, and possible spy
or at least intriguer. All of them perforce include Elizabethan theatre,
players,and plays in their plots. But some focus more on politics than
others. These novels include:
A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
The Slicing Edge of Death by Judith Cook
Black Swan by Farrukh Dhondy
Entered from the Sun by George P. Garrett
The Shadow of the Earth by Lee Wichelns


Tom Dillie, Adult Services Librarian
Wadsworth Ella M. Everhard Public Library
132 Broad St.
Wadsworth OH 44281

"Rolf W. Laun" wrote:

> I'm looking to do a book display next month, focused around books that deal
> with the theatre. Looking for fiction only and anything that revolves
> around the theatre (plays, playwrights, actors, etc.) is fair game as well
> as books that may be based on famous plays. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated and I will happily compile the list if any one is interested.
>
> ->Rolf<-
> Fiction - San Antonio Public Library
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/28/01, 10:22 AM

In a message dated 3/27/2001 6:13:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us writes:

<<
Has someone already mentioned "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux?

Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" would be a
possibility; do printed plays fit your criteria? >>

Good ones!

Binnie Syril Brauntein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/28/01, 10:33 AM

Has anyone mentioned Shakespeare's Hamlet, which has a play within a play?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Brent Miller <[removed]@library.ca.gov>
REC'D: 3/28/01, 10:44 AM

Murder in three acts, by Agatha Christie.

FROM: "Carl Heffington" <[removed]@lmxac.org>
REC'D: 3/28/01, 11:38 AM

the king and i also has a play within a play
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Subject: Re: The Theatre in Fiction


> Has anyone mentioned Shakespeare's Hamlet, which has a play within a play?
>
> Binnie Syril Braunstein
> romance novelist/former librarian
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FROM: Sherri Lazenby <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
REC'D: 3/28/01, 1:03 PM

That would be the Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

Sherri L. Lazenby
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vicki Biehl [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 5:38 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: The Theatre in Fiction

Also, at least one of the CAT WHO... mysteries
involves the local theater group.

Vicki Biehl

--- Vicki Biehl <[removed]@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I suggest Simon Brett's Charles Paris mystery
> series.
> Also, in Sara Woods's series on barrister Anthony
> Maitland, one of the Maitlands' best friends is an
> actress so a few of the books might suit your list.
>
> Bookbrowser has lists for mysteries by occupation of
> the sleuth:
> http://www.bookbrowser.com/Sleuths/Acting.html
>
> Vicki Biehl
> Pearl River Public Library
> Pearl River, NY
>
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FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/28/01, 11:48 AM

Kate Ross is dead??? I didn't know that, oh damn I was hoping for another
book.
Michael Malone's FOOLSCAP is a very humorous book that involves a young
professor who passes off his own play as a "lost" work by Sir Walter Ralegh
and also has an aging "bad boy" playwright as the younger man's
mentor/aggravation.

Has anyone mentioned Fritz Leiber's CHANGEWAR stories? Unfortunately, I
think these are OP at the moment. They all involve two warring
factions--Snakes and Spiders--who travel in time and space and manipulate
history to their own ends. The first story involes a travelling theatrical
company whose "theater" is actually their Tardis (sort of). They use a
performance to "replace" Queen Elizabeth I. Also Leiber's story "Four
Ghosts In Macbeth" would apply.

Tom Deitz's THE GRYPHON KING, a contemporary Faerie-crossing-into- mundane
story has a play at it's core.

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>From: "Denese Young" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
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>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: The Theatre in Fiction
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:33:39 -0600
>
>Don't forget MASKERADE, WYRD SISTERS, and MOVING PICTURES by Terry
>Pratchett. MASKERADE complements Phantom of the Opera...

As does "The Canary Trainer," a Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer.
And his "West End Horror" features Gilbert & Sullivan, G. B. Shaw, Ellen
Terry, and assorted other theatrical persons of the day.
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>Subject: Theatre in fiction
>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:47:34 -0600
>
>I was so delighted to see someone mention Dodie Smith! A TOWN IN BLOOM is
>another of hers with a theatre background. And although it's a play and a
>movie, Edna Ferber & George Kaufman's STAGE DOOR is wonderful.

Speaking of Edna Ferber, there's always "Show Boat"! The theater may float,
but it's a theater nevertheless!
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Did anyone mention the wonderful short story by (I think) Kurt Vonnegut. It
might be called "Who am I this time?" but I'm not sure. The protagonist is a
reclusive guy with not a lot to say for himself. Works in a hardware store.
Is kind of a klutz - until he gets on stage & becomes something else in the
town's little theatre. And the heroine is a person who works for the "phone
company" and goes from town to town teaching phone etiquette, if I remember
correctly. It's a wonderful story. It was also broadcast on PBS as part of
American Playhouse, or whatever they called the (too brief) series that
focused on short stories.

Anyway, the theatre setting was definitely an integral part of the story.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Rolf W. Laun" <[removed]@swbell.net>
REC'D: 4/19/01, 9:11 AM

Thanks to all for the wonderful suggestions. I ended up with quite a list
which I've split into two parts to make the messages a little more wieldy.
So far the display is doing pretty well.

The Plays The Thing (The Theater in Fiction) (A-L)

Peter Ackroyd
English Music
The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Banner by the Wayside
Lydia Adamson
Alice Nestleton series
Nobuko Albery
The House of Kanze
Margery Allingham
Dancers in Mourning
Michael David Anthony
Midnight Come
Helen Ashfield
Opal
Marian Babson
Break A Leg, Darling
Encore Murder
Even Yuppies Die
Nine Lives to Murder
Reel Murder
Shadows in Their Blood
Naomi Lane Babson
I Am Lidian
Babula William
According to St. John
George Bagby
Give the Little Corpse a Great Big
Beryl Bainbridge
An Awfully Big Adventure
Sweet William
Bamford Susanah
The Gilded Cage
Shirley Barker
Liza Bowe
Robert Barnard
Death and the Chaste Apprentice
Death on the High C's
Linda Barnes
Bitter Finish
Blood Will Have Blood
Cities of the Dead
Dead Heat
Dead Heat
A Trouble of Fools
Miguel Barnet
Rachel's Song: A Novel
Barron Stephanie
Jane and the Wandering Eye
Tricia Bauer
Hollywood and Hardwood
George Baxt
The Noel Coward Murder Case
The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case
S. N. Behrman
The Burning Glass
Julius Berstl
Kean: The Imaginary Memoirs of an Actor
W. Edward Blain
Love Cools
Passion Play
Lilian Jackson Braun
Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
Carol Brennan
Chill of Summer
In the Dark
Madeleine Brent
The Capricorn Stone
Simon Brett
Charles Paris series
The Dead Side of the Mike
Murder in the Title
Murder Unprompted
A Series of Murders
Situation Tragedy
What Bloody Man is That?
Damien Broderick
The White Abacus
John Brophy
Gentleman of Stratford
Mary Brown
Playing the Jack
Invitation to a Funeral
The Lemon Juice Plot
Wesley Brown
Darktown Strutters
Bryher
The Player's Boy
Pearl S. Buck
The Rainbow
Henrietta Buckmaster
All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Fire in the Heart
Anthony Burgess
A Dead Man in Deptford
A Death in Deptford
Nothing Like the Sun
Philip Burton
You, My Brother: A Novel Based on the Lives of Edmund and William
Shakespeare
Charles Busch
Whores of Lost Atlantis
A.S. Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden
P.M. Carlson
Rehearsal for Murder
Angela Carter
Wise Children
Hester W. Chapman
Lucy
Agatha Christie
Murder in Three Acts
Brian Cleeve
Kate
V.C Clinton-Baddeley
Death's Bright Dart
Patricia Cloud
This Willing Passion
Virginia Coffman
Mistress Devon
Robert J. Conley
The Actor
Quitting Time
Judith Cook
The Slicing Edge of Death
Susan Cooper
King of Shadows (Young Adult)
Carole Corbeil
In The Wings
March Cost
I, Rachel
Stephanie Cowell
Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest
The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare
Hamilton Crane
Starring Miss Seaton
Teresa Crane
Sweet Songbird
Crispin Edmund
The Case of the Gilded Fly
Clare Darcy
Caroline and Julia
Robertson Davies
Fifth Business
Leaven of Malice
The Lyre of Orpheus
A Mixture of Frailties
Tempest-Tost
Lindsey Davis
Last Act in Palmyra
S.F.X Dean
It Can't be My Grave
Tom Deitz
The Gryphon King
D. J. Delffs
The Martyr's Chapel
David Delman
The Bluestocking
Robert DeMaria
To Be a King
Jane Dentinger
Jocelyn O'Roarke series
Eileen Dewhurst
Helen Johnson series
Farrukh Dhondy
Black SwAn
Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby
Maurice Dolbier
Benjy Boone
The Mortal Gods
Jerome Doolittle
Strangle Hold
Emma Drummond
A Captive Freedom
Katharine Dunlap
The Glory and the Dream
Dorothy Dunnett
King Hereafter
Alice Dwyer-Joyce
The Strolling Players
Alan Ebert
The Long Way Home
Traditions
Julie Ellis
Glorious Morning
Loren D. Estleman
This Old Bill
Gillian B. Farrell
Alibi for an Actress
Murder and a Muse
Edna Ferber
Show Boat
Edna Ferber & George Kaufman
Stage Door
Penelope Fitzgerald
At Freddie's
John M. Ford
Casting Fortune
Pamela Frankau
Sing for Your Supper
Slaves of the Lamp
Margaret Frazer
The Servant's Tale
Shelly Freydont
Back Stage Murder
Mark Friedlander and Robert W. Kenny
The Shakespeare Transcript
Sara Hoskinson Frommer
Murder and Sullivan
George P. Garrett
Entered from the Sun
Elizabeth George
Payment in Blood
William Getz
Sam Patch: Ballad of a Jumping Man
Kate Gilmore
Enter Three Witches (Young Adult)
Jason and the Bard (Young Adult)
Suzanne Goodwin
A Change of Season
Alan Gordon
Thirteenth Night
Edward Gorman
Murder in the Wings
Philip Kan Gotanda
Fish Head Soup and Other Plays
Barry Graham
The Book of Man
Caroline Graham
Death of a Hollow Man
Richard Grayson
Death Off Stage
The Monterant Affair
Carl Green and William Sanford
House of Fear
Martha Grimes
The Dirty Duck
Winston Groom
Gone the Sun
Joel Gross
Sarah
Pamela Haines
The Diamond Waterfall
Parnell Hall
Actor
Movie
Robert Lee Hall
Murder at Drury Lane: Further Adventures of the American Agent in
London
Tamsin Hamilton
The Gypsy from Cadiz
Elizabeth Hand
Winterlong
Mollie Hardwick
The Crystal Dove
Lovers Meeting
The Merrymaid
Perish in July
The Shakespeare Girl
Charlotte Hardy
Far from Home
Harris MacDonald
Herma
Carolyn G. Hart
Something Wicked
Ellen Hart
Jane Lawless series
Simon Hawke
A Mystery of Errors
Tony Hays
Murder on the Twelfth Night
Marcy Heidish
The Secret Annie Oakley
Lauren Henderson
Freeze My Margarita: A Sam Jones Novel
George Herman
Carnival of Saints
Monique Raphel High
Encore
Reginald Hill
Bones and Silence
John Buxton Hilton
Fatal Curtain
Tom Holt
Goatsong
The Walled Orchard
Victoria Holt
Daughter of Deceit
Fred W. Hunter
Presence of Mind
Ransom at the Opera
Darrell Husted
Louisa Brancusi
David Henry Hwang
FOB and Other Plays
Eva Ibbotson
A Company of Swans
Magic Flutes
Michael Innes
Hamlet, Revenge!
Yves Jacquemard-Senecal
The Eleventh Little Indian
Mike Jahn
Murder on Theatre Row
J.A. Jance
Failure to Appear
Burris Atkins Jenkins
The Bracegirdle
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Catherine Carter
Cork St. Next the Hatters
The Unspeakable Skipton
Erica Jong
Serenissiam: A Novel of Venice
Jan Jordan
Dim the Flaring Lamps
Garson Karin
One Hell of an Actor
Smash
Marvin Kaye
Bullets for Macbeth
Faye Kellerman
A Quality of Mercy
Marne Davis Kellogg
Tramp
Carla Kelly
Miss Billings Treads the Boards
Jack Kelly
Mad Dog
Tom Keneally
The Playmaker
William Kennedy
The Flaming Corsage
Ardyth Kennelly
The Spur
Charlotte Keppel
My Name Is Clary Brown
Vlady Kociancich
The Last Days of William Shakespeare
Manuel Komroff
Feast of the Jesters
Jayne An Krentz
Trust Me, Desdemona
Thomas Kyd
Blood on the Bosom Devine
Annabel Laine
The Melancholy Virgin
M.D. Lake
Once Upon a Crime
Midsummer Madness
Lilian Lee
Farewell to My Concubine
Fritz Leiber
The Big Time
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Doris Lessing
Love, Again
Julius Lester
Othello: a Novel (Young Adult)
Barbara Levy
Adrienne
Sara Lewis
The Answer is Yes
Libby Lewis
The Apprentice
Eloise S. Liddon
Some Lose Their Way
Audrey Erskine Lindop
The Way to the Lantern
Gillian Linscott
Stage Fright
Frances & Richard Lockridge
Death on the Aisle
Death Takes a Bow
Gary Lockwood
The Shakespeare Scribe (Young Adult)
The Shakespeare Stealer (Young Adult)
M.K. Lorens
Sorrowheart
Maud Hart Lovelace
The Black Angels
Charming Sally
Peter Lovesey
Abracadaver
Elizabeth Lyle
Cassy

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San Antonio Public Library


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The Plays The Thing (The Theater in Fiction) (M-Z)

Colin MacInnes
Three Years to Play
Mary Mackey
A Grand Passion
Michael Malone
Foolscap
Eric Lawson Malpass
The Cleopatra Boy
A House of Women
Sweet Will
John P. Marquand
So Little Time
Ngaio Marsh
Enter a Murderer
False Scent
Final Curtain
Hand in Glove
Killer Dolphin
Light Thickens
Night at the Vulcan
Overture to Death
Edison Marshall
The Infinite Woman
The Upstart
William Marshall
The New York Detective
Edward Marston
Nicholas Bracewell series
J. K. Mayo
The Hunting Season
Ed McBain
Ice
The Last Dance
Anne McCaffrey
Killashandra
Jill McGown
Scene of the Crime
Nicholas Meyer
The Canary Trainer
The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.
Annette Meyers
Murder: The Musical
These Bones Were Made for Dancin'
Judith Michael
Acts of Love
John Miles
Murder in Retirement
Miriam Grace Monfredo
North Star Conspiracy
C.L. Moore
Doomsday Morning
Anne Morice
Dead on Cue
Death and the Dutiful Daughter
Death in the Grand Manner
Death in the Round
Death of a Heavenly Twin
Death of a Wedding Guest
Design for Dying
Fatal Charm
Getting Away with Murder
Hollow Vengeance
Killling with Kindness
The Men in Her Death
Murder by Proxy
Murder in Married Life
Murder in Mimicry
Murder in Outline
Murder Post-dated
Nursery Tea and Poison
Planning for Murder
Publish and Be Killed
Scared to Death
Sleep of Death
Treble Exposure
Gilbert Morris
The Jeweled Spur
John Mortimer
Will Shakespeare: The Untold Story
Harry Mulisch
Last call
Talbot Mundy
Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
Amy Myers
Murder in the Limelight
Hilary Norman
Spellbound
Robert Nye
Falstaff
The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Mrs. Shakespeare: Her Complete Works
Michael O'Shaughnessy
Monsieur Moliere
Robert B. Parker
Walking Shadow
Barbara Paul
The Apostrophe Thief
A Cadenza for Caruso
A Chorus of Detectives
The Fourth Wall
Prima Donna at Large
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
Laurence Payne
Knight Fall
Anne Perry
Half Moon Street
Jean Plaidy
Goddess of the Green Room
Perdita's Prince
Anne Powers
Rachel
Terry Pratchett
Maskerade
Wyrd Sisters
Allan Prior
A Cast of Stars
Mary Jo Putney
One Perfect Rose
Ellery Queen
Drury Lane's Last Case
The Tragedy of X
The Tragedy of Y
The Tragedy of Z
Patrick Quentin
A Puzzle for Fools
A Puzzle for Players
Sheila Rabe
Be My Valentine
Rona Randall
Curtain Call
The Eagle at the Gate
The Mating Dance
Claire Rayner
Bedford Row
Charing Cross
Chelsea Reach
Covent Garden
Gower Street
The Haymarket
Piccadilly
Soho Square
The Strand
Desmond Rayner
The Dawlish Season
Charles Reade
Peg Woffington
Ishmael Reed
Reckless Eyeballing
Mary Renault
The Mask of Apollo
Herbert Resnicow
The Gold Gamble
Jean Rhys
Voyage in the Dark
Nora Roberts
Hidden Riches
Patricia Robinson
A Trick of Light
Martha Rofheart
The Savage Brood
Leon Rooke
Shakespeare’s Dog
Kate Ross
The Devil in Music
Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
George Sand
Consuelo
Lawrence Sanders
McNally's Folly
Beth Saulnier
Fourth Wall
Dorothy L. Sayers
Six Against Scotland Yard
Sandra Scoppetone
Trying Hard to Hear You
Pamela F. Service
When the Night Wind Howls
Mary Lee Settle
The Love Eaters
Simon Shaw
Bloody Instructions
The Company of Knaves
Frances L. Shine
Conjuror's Journal
Sam Siciliano
The Angel of the Opera: Sherlock Holmes Meets the Phantom of the OperA
David Slavitt
Get Thee to a Nunnery
Bob Sloan
Bliss Jumps the Gun
Dodie Smith
It Ends with Reveations
A Town in Bloom
Kay Nolte Smith
A Tale of the Wind: A Novel of 19th Century France
Keith Snyder
Show Control
Sontag Susan
In America
Christine Spindler
The Rhythm of Revenge
Christopher Stasheff
A Company of Stars
We Open on Venus
Sol Stein
The Best Revenge: a Novel of Broadway
Janet Stevenson
The Ardent Years
Caroline Stevermer
River Rats (Young Adult)
Bram Stoker
Snowbound
Jean Stubbs
Eleanora Duse
The Golden Crucible
Karen Sturges
Death of a Baritone
Death of a Pooh-Pah
Faith Sullivan
The Empress of One
Richard Sumner
Mistress of the Boards
Susan Sussman
Audition for Murder
Rehearsal for Murder
Elizabeth Swados
The Myth Man
Josephine Tey
The Man in the Queue
Elswyeth Thane
Ever After
Homing
Rosie Thomas
Bad Girls, Good Women
Nicola Thorne
Affairs of Love
Roderick Thorp
Jenny and Barnum: A Novel of Love
Leonard Tourney
The Player's Boy is Dead
Barry Unsworth
Morality Play
Jack Vance
Showboat World
John Varley
The Golden Globe
Paul Voerman
And Disregards the Rest
Robert Watson
Whilom
David Weiss
Physician Extraordinary
The Spirit and the Flesh: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Isadora
Duncan
Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
The Eye of the Lion: A Novel Based on the Life of Mata Hari
Phyllis A. Whitney
Domino
Lee Wichelns
The Shadow of the Earth
Kate Wilhelm
The Hamlet Trap
Kathleen Winsor
Calais
Lois Wolfe
Mask of Night
Eric Wright
A Fine Italian Hand
A Sensitive Case
Dorian Yaeger
Cancellation by Death
Eviction by Death
Ovation by Death
Jack Yeovil (Kim Newman)
Drachenfels
Anthology
Shakespearian Detectives
Shakespearian WhoDunnits

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