Ayse Tashkiran
Methuen
'When directors understand the value of a movement director they remove any sense of hierarchy within the room and place movement directors firmly by their side for they are and should be their co-pilot, nav...
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Edward Bond et al
Methuen
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James Shapiro
Faber & Faber
From the author of the hugely popular and critically acclaimed 1599 - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare and 1606 - Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, Shakespeare in a Divided America offers a fresh pe...
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Larry Silverberg
Smith & Kraus
Larry Silverberg is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre where he studied with legendary acting teacher Sanford Meisner Shortly before his death, Sanford Meisner arranged for Larry to ...
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Jean Benedetti
Methuen
Jean Benedetti's critical biography of Konstantin Stanislavski, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theatre, has been fully revised and expanded offering new facts and insights into Stanislavski...
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Joe Farrell
Methuen
This first full biography of the winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature illuminates his theatre, his politics, and the working relationship at the heart of his marriage to the actress and writer Franc...
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Brian Kulick
Methuen
This book begins with a phone call You answer it and learn that you got the job Several months from now you're going to stage a Shakespeare play So … What do you do? What do you do after that initial burst ...
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Joel Schechter
Methuen Drama
Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens From Aristophanes t...
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Simon Murgatroyd
Used copy
Sight Unseen was intended to be Alan Ayckbourn's 25th playIt was announced, advertised and abandoned less than a week before rehearsals were due to beginIn its place, the playwright wrote Season's Greetings ...
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Edited by Richard F Leavitt, with an Introduction by Tennessee Williams
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"All work is autobiographical if it is serious. Everything a writer produces is sort of his inner history, transposed into another time" Tennessee WilliamsWilliams has been called one of the most subjective ...
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Irene Mayer Selznick
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The daughter of Louis B Mayer and wife of David O Selznick recounts her untypical Hollywood childhood, her marriage to Selznick, and her own career as a Broadway producer writing with wit and total candour a...
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Peter Nichols
Nick Hern Books
The playwright Peter Nichols was a compulsive diarist all his life He wrote for himself alone, responding to an urge to record the daily doings, private and professional, of his family, his fellows - and him...
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James Inverne
Used Copy
This book features in-depth interviews with today's major producers of theatre, opera and ballet They are dictators, often eccentrics, all of them visionaries who beat the odds on a daily basis to achieve th...
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Arthur Laurents
Knopf
Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, whose creative genius continues to energize American stage an...
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Daniel Rosenthal
Oberon
The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs – and the occasional disasterThis definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's 19th-centu...
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David Sheward
Backstage Books
Filled with absorbing theatre lore and vintage photos, It's a Hit! relates the history of the Broadway theatre through the story of its most popular and successful shows Spanning more than a century of Ameri...
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Amanda Vaill
Orion Publishing
This is the first full-scale biography of what Time Magazine called a 'made-in-the-USA genius,' Jerome Robbins Robbins helped change American theatre forever with his choreography for Leonard Bernstein's mus...
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Edited by Alistair Owen
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'A lot of my plays begin as comedies and mutate in the course of the evening, because my instinct is that you have to welcome the audience in and make sure they're sitting comfortably before you can give the...
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Peter Gill
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Apprenticeship is Peter Gill's potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the 1960s Part history, part memoir, part polemic, it puts into context his diary of 1962 in which he vividly recall...
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Michael Codron and Alan Strachan
Duckworth
Michael Codron is undoubtedly the leading producer of postwar British theatre Still active after an astonishing half-century in the industry, every major British dramatist of the period has had a production ...
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