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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Theatre Craft A Director's Practical Companion from A-Z John Caird Faber and Faber, Inc. "Caird's witty, no-nonsense approach to theatre is totally refreshing . . . playwrights will find this book inspiring."—Timberlake Wertenbaker

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Theatre

David Mamet Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Mr. Mamet, like Mencken and Thomson, isn't always right, but even when he's wrong, he still makes you think twice. What more can you ask of a critic?"—Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

"A blunderbuss blast against pretentious directors, showy designers and actors who agonise over motivation and their characters' back-stories . . . A bracing and necessary corrective."—Charles Spenser, The Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle; Translated by S. H. Butcher; Introduction by Francis Fergusson Hill and Wang Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental...

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Writing Home

Alan Bennett Picador

Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England’s best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Thinking Like a Director A Practical Handbook Michael Bloom Faber and Faber, Inc. "Thinking Like a Director helps fill the void of practical handbooks that are available to theater directors. It is smart and lucidly written and should prove to be an invaluable guidebook for students and emerging directors."—Donald Margulies

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Brecht on Theatre The Development of an Aesthetic Bertolt Brecht; Edited and Translated by John Willett Hill and Wang This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956,...

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Being an Actor, Revised and Expanded Edition

Simon Callow Picador

"Impassioned, intelligent, informative, and, quite simply, one of the best theatre books I have read."—Michael Coveney, Financial Times

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The Verbal Arts Workbook

Performance Books

David Carey, Rebecca Clark Carey Methuen Drama

Written by tutors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and authors of the successful companion title, The Vocal Arts Workbook and DVD, this book trains actors to learn not only how to use their voice, but to use voice and language together and how to reach the expressive potential of language.
This book puts it all together using one classical and one modern scene as examples.

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And Furthermore

Judi Dench St. Martin's Press

I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that has brought...

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	A Practical Guide to Working in Theatre Backstage Gill Foreman Methuen Drama This book is a behind-the-scenes guide for new theatre professionals explaining how theatre is actually made. It covers each professional role including...

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Copenhagen Papers An Intrigue Michael Frayn and David Burke Picador One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London...

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How to Stop Acting

Harold Guskin; Introduction by Kevin Kline Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Many actors, newcomers and veterans alike, often wonder why it's so difficult to be as real, natural, and emotionally charged on stage or in front of the camera as we are in our daily lives. Harold Guskin explains how, by habit and misconception, we tend to undermine our potential. How to Stop Acting is a clear and concise actor's guide to living the truth in our work."—Christopher Reeve

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Asking Around Background to the David Hare Trilogy David Hare Faber and Faber, Inc. The candid interviews that formed the basis for David Hare's famed trilogy of plays about the state of Britain in the early 1990s. Asking Around is a...

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Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

David Hare Faber and Faber, Inc.

"That David Hare writes with intelligence, insight and passion is no surprise. What blows you away in this extraordinary, compelling collection is his deep and heartbreaking humanity."—Stephen Daldry

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Notes on Directing

130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair

Frank Hauser; Russell Reich Walker & Company

"Filled with smart, useful, thoughtful advice, born of years of service to an elulsive craft. How rare it is for two of our own to talk so shrewdly, candidly and succinctly about the process of making a production. I learned a lot from this remarkably straightforward book, and I debated with it. It is invaluable."—Mark Lamos, Former Artistic Director, Hartford Stage

Trade Paperback : $11.00 Buy	Tom Stoppard A Faber Critical Guide: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia Faber Critical Guides Jim Hunter Faber and Faber, Inc. For well over thirty years, Tom Stoppard has consistently held his position as one of England's most admired dramatists. And for this edition of Faber Critical...

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Colored Lights

Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz

John Kander and Fred Ebb as told to Greg Lawrence; With an Introduction by Liza Minnelli and a Foreword by Harold Prince Faber and Faber, Inc.

Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running song-writing partnership in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The...

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Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Shakespeare's Language Frank Kermode Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A magnum opus from our finest interpreter of The Bard The true biography of Shakespeare--and the only one we need to care about--is in his plays. Frank...

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	What People Wore When A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society Melissa Leventon St. Martin's Griffin What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Interpreting Television Karen Lury Bloomsbury USA

Trade Paperback : $27.95 Buy	Renaissance Drama Contexts Andrew McRae Bloomsbury USA The Renaissance was a time of unprecedented change in England. Massive intellectual and cultural developments coincided with considerable social instability...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights Play Anthologies Martin Middeke Methuen Drama An authoritative, single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish playwrights from the 1960s to the present, written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars contributing individual studies to the work of each playwright.

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All That Glittered

The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959

Ethan Mordden St. Martin's Press

From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Furious Improvisation How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times Susan Quinn Walker & Company “Spotlight[s] one of the most compelling periods of American theater…Quinn’s well-written narrative is both fascinating and frightening.”—Library Journal...