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  • Directing Professionally

    A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Today’s Theatre

    Series series Introductions to Theatre
    How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as a director. Directing Professionally first lays ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Colder than Here

    by Laura Wade ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    "I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)

    A working guide for actors, directors, students…and anyone else interested in the Bard

    Revised, updated edition; originally published in 2007Highly regarded text in academia and acting training coursesEdelstein has been directing Shakespeare for over thirty years; at this point, he's directed nearly half the Shakespeare canonEdelstein has taught Shakespearean acting at the Juilliard School, New York University's Graduate Acting Program, and the University of Southern California. He ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Acting - The First Six Lessons

    “Acting - The First Six Lessons” is a collection of essays by Richard Boleslavsky. Written in the form of a series of dialogues, these lessons aim to inform and instruct the budding actor on some of the basic principles of acting and learning to act. A novel approach to teaching acting techniques, this volume is highly recommended for novices and young actors or actresses looking to hone their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Viewpoints Book

    A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

    The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Red

    by Mr John Logan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... One day the black will swallow the red.'Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Actor's Companion

    Tools for the Working Actor

    "I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone. There is muscularity, not to mention wisdom and truth to Seth's techniques. He is a wonderful teacher, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Whenever You’re Ready

    Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

    Backstage with one of Canada’s greatest stage managersWhenever You’re Ready is an intimate account of the career of Nora Polley, who — in her 52 years at the Stratford Festival — has learned from, worked with, and cared for some of the greatest directors, actors, stage managers, and productions in Canadian theatrical history. In so doing, Nora became one of the greatest stage managers this country ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Rise Up!

    Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’

    Penned by one of America's best-known daily theatre critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.It is the story of the embrace of risk ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Script Analysis for Theatre

    Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production

    Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on concepts derived from Stanislavski's system of acting and method acting, the book focuses on action ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Human Voice

    by Jean Cocteau ...
    Translated by Daniel Raggett ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.' A woman, a phone call, a final conversation. In this extraordinary and prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves. Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that has changed them forever. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors, designers, other collaborators and audiences, and treatment of dramatic material. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Multicultural Theater in Los Angeles During the Early 1990s

    The primary resources examined were publications that advertise the presentation of theater. These sources included "The Drama-logue," the "Back Stage West," and the "Los Angeles Times." There were culturally specific publications available, but these sources replicated the items located in the primary resources. Also, notices were listed in the cultures indigenous language, and the listings ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rachel

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    'Today, we colored men and women, everywhere - are up against it...In the South, they make it as impossible as they can for us to get educated. In the North, they make a pretence of liberality; they give us the ballot and a good education, and then snuff us out. Each year, the problem just to live, gets more difficult to solve.'The first play by an African American woman ever produced ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • If I Can Make It There, I Can Make It Anywhere: How to Produce Plays and Musical Theater in New York

    In this comprehensive, first and one-of-its-kind book, playwright and producer M. Stefan Strozier will guide you through how to produce a play or a musical in New York or Regional Theater, and how to become a professional producer yourself. The author will explain how to successfully produce theater on a shoestring, based on real experience and budgets in New York, where he was able to mount full ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking the Rules

    The Wooster Group

    by David Savran ...
    Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Exploring Shakespeare

    A Director's Notes from the Rehearsal Room

    In Exploring Shakespeare, acclaimed theatre director Bill Alexander takes us inside the rehearsal room to reveal – in unprecedented and captivating detail – exactly what happens there. He examines the key relationship between the actors and the director, how they work together to bring Shakespeare's vision to life, and how choices are made that will shape every aspect of the play in production. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dramaturgy in the Making

    A User's Guide for Theatre Practitioners

    Series series Performance Books
    Dramaturgy in the Making maps contemporary dramaturgical practices in various settings of theatre-making and dance to reveal the different ways that dramaturgs work today. It provides a thorough survey of three major areas of practice - institutional dramaturgy, production dramaturgy and dance dramaturgy - with each illustrated through a range of case studies that illuminate methodology and which ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • How to Start Your Own Theater Company

    With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and navigating legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre, this journey behind the curtain reveals the nitty ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antigone Undone

    Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance

    by Will Aitken ...
    Series series The Regina Collection
    In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne Carson’s translation of Sophokles’ 5th-century BCE tragedy Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche and directed by theatrical sensation Ivo van Hove. In watching the play, he became awestruck with the plight of the young woman at the centre of the action. “Look at what these men are doing to me,” Antigone cries, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Five Plays by the TEAM

    Give Up! Start Over!; A Thousand Natural Shocks; Particularly in the Heartland; Architecting; Mission Drift

    by The Team ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays: Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope); A Thousand Natural Shocks; Particularly in the Heartland; Architecting; Mission Drift.Founded in 2004, the TEAM is an internationally-acclaimed Brooklyn-based collaborative ensemble. Once described as “Gertrude Stein meets MTV,” the TEAM's mission is to make new work about the experience of living ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Notes on Directing

    130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair

    Series series Notes On
    Some years ago, Frank Hauser, then a retired freelance director, and writer Russell Reich, his former student, self-published Notes on Directing in hardcover. It was immediately acclaimed as "a gem-witty and full of insight;" "so sensible, so complete, and so right;" and "amazingly illuminating" by the likes of Judi Dench, Edward Albee, and Terry Teachout. Gathered over Frank Hauser's long career, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

    From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This global revival, in addition to delighting audiences, has highlighted both the promise and the pitfalls of staging ancient masterpieces in the modern age. Addressing the issues and challenges these performances pose, renowned classicist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Contemporary Women Stage Directors

    Conversations on Craft

    Series series Theatre Makers
    Contemporary Women Stage Directors opens the door into the minds of 27 prolific female theatre directors, allowing you to explore their experience, wisdom and knowledge.Directors give insight into their diverse approaches to the key challenges of directing theatre, including choosing projects, engaging with scripts, conceptualizing visual and acoustic production elements, collaborating with actors ... Read more

    $28.99 USD