A Guide for Playwrights, Directors, and Dramaturgs
Workshopping the New Play is a guide for playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, and other theater professional and students. The book begins with an overview of the basics of playwriting and goes on to cover all aspects of the new-play workshopping process
All That's Left to Know About Broadway's Blaze of Glory
After opening in a small Off-Broadway theatre, Rent, a modern adaptation of Puccini s La Boheme, quickly became a worldwide phenomenon with a more zealous and devoted fan base than had any musical in history. Rent FAQ includes biographical info on the musical s brilliant creator, Jonathan Larson, who tragically passed away at age 35 the night ......
In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honoured director in the history of the American theatre (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career.
In Rest Area, Clay McLeod Chapman offered a view into the lives of Southern Gothic monstrosities. Now, the 40 tales of Nothing Untoward delve into the depraved minds of those madmen and women who drift along the periphery of humankind. Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heart-breaking, these stories explore the domestic horrors of the ......
Barbecue by Robert O Hara a wildly inventive new play that proves family can be a bigger vice than any other addiction. New Country by Mark Roberts a rowdy, raucous rodeo and a New York Times Critics Pick. Lost Girls by John Pollono a hard-hitting working-class drama about people struggling to redefine family. Plus three more of the most ......
A look at the best plays of 2014 including; The Country House, Dinner With the Boys, Mala Hierba, Our Lady of Kibeho, When January Feels Like Summerand Year of the Rooster
The undisputed virtuosity of William Shakespeare's theatrical works--and their perennial relationship to the experience of being human--assures their continued importance in the cultural life of the twenty-first century. However, Shakespeare is a subject of interest beyond the theater; his life and work remain among the foremost themes of literary ......
Best Monologues from The Best American Short Plays, Volume Three is a collection of monologues drawn from the popular Best American Short Plays series, an archive of works from many of the best playwrights active today.
Lawrence Harbison has selected 100 terrific monologues for men - from contemporary plays, all by characters between the ages of 18 and 35 - perfect for auditions or class.
Contemporary Monologues for Men and Women Late Twenties to Thirties
An indispensable collection of monologues for today's aspiring young actors, featuring dynamic monologues from contemporary stage plays of the past 15 years, as selected by a professional acting teacher, director, and casting director.
This foray into the deeply serious and deeply funny world of life after 40 focuses primarily on scenes that depict the struggles of contemporary characters to come to terms with disappointment and obsolescence or to redeem their lives from the mistakes or miscalculations of their youth.
Women's Comedic Monologues features 60 monologues by writers and comics who have written for or performed on Chelsea Lately, Carson Daly, The Tonight Show, Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Stage, and many
Fear grips many American actors and directors faced with the opportunity to perform Shakespeare live. The challenges of Elizabethan British speech patterns the thought of using verse for hours the debate over staging a period piece versus updating the Bard of Avon ae all can cause psychogenic trauma on this side of the Atlantic.?Let Broadway ......
