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Moss Hart · 444 pages
An engaging story, superbly written, funny, poignant, fascinating. The life of Moss Hart, written by Moss Hart and his life in American theater.
Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter · 287 pages
Offers a behind-the-scenes view of Hamilton the musical, detailing the many dramatic episodes in Alexander Hamilton's life.
Shakespeare: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 572 pages
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixteenth-century Stratford and the rural landscape--the industry, the animals, even the flow
Timebends: A Life
Arthur Miller · 614 pages
Autobiographie de ce dramaturge Juif libéral new-yorkais, combattant pour la liberté (il est président du PEN international) et ex-mari de Marilyn Monroe. Pour Anthony Burgess ce livre propose "une allégorie des épreuves et des triomphes limités de l'intellectualité américaine."
Underfoot in Show Business
Helene Hanff · 177 pages
Helene Hanff's witty memoir of her adventures and misadventures as an aspiring playwright in New York City, 1940s-1960s.
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Jennifer Homans · 672 pages
Unique among the arts, ballet has no written texts or standardized notation. It is a storytelling art passed on from teacher to student. A ballerina dancing today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings, and aristocracy, but her steps are also marked by the dramatic changes in dance and
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson · 208 pages
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected a
The Invisible Woman
Claire Tomalin · 352 pages
A portrait of nineteenth-century actress Ellen Ternan, the woman who was the mistress of Charles Dickens, describing her secret relationship with the author.
Company: A Musical Comedy
Stephen Sondheim, George Furth · 118 pages
A breakthrough Broadway musical in 1970, Company remains fresh, acerbic and original today. The musical's themes - marriage and commitment, friendship and loneliness - and its innovations in form mark it as a landmark of modern American musical theatre. Company's 25th anniversary was commemorated by two major revivals: in New York, at the Roundabout Theatre Company and in London at the Donmar Ware
Bossypants
Tina Fey · 277 pages
Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funnie
A Very Young Dancer
Jill Krementz · 128 pages
A ten-year-old student at the School of American Ballet in New York describes her classes and the preparation for and performance of her role in the ballet "The Nutcracker."
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff · 400 pages
Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the env
Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History
Glen Berger · 370 pages
Playwright Glen Berger's hilarious memoir of a theatrical dream--or nightmare--come true with a cast of characters including renowned director Julie Taymor and two superstar rock legends U2's Bono and Edge.
To the Actor
Michael Chekhov, Simon Callow · 201 pages
This handbook for professional and amateur actors and directors provides simple and practical methods to train actors to quickly and effectively call up emotion, develop characters, and strengthen awareness.
The Golden Thread
David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, Justine Nakase · 344 pages
This two-volume edited collection covers three hundred years of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Volume One looks at the period from 1716 to 1992, exploring such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and
The Theater and Its Double
Antonin Artaud · 159 pages
The Theater And Its Double is a collection of essays by french poet and playwrite Anton Artaud. Published in 1938. Artaud intended his work as an attack on theatrical convention and the importance of language of drama, opposing the vitality of the viewers sensual experience against theater as a contrived literary form, and urgency of expression against complacency on the part of the audience.
The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
Peter Brook · 141 pages