Regi & produktion

Theatres worldwide have exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the late 20th- and the early 21st centuries, and this range of work has been determined largely by its directors. This book documents this procession of thea...

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Thousands of years before the deluge, there were several kingdom cities ruled by gods. One of these cities is called Urukagina, whose citizens were celebrating for their achievement of building great walls surrounding Urukagina. The walls were imp...

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Not a mirror but a magnifying glasssuch, in the poet Mayakovskys words, was the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The first to insist on the primacy of the directors role, indeed the first to conceive of it as a role, this passionately dedicated Russ...

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"Taking a Detour: Adapting Theatre to Celebrate the Ability of All" documents through story, example and pedagogy Detour Company Theatre's process for adapting traditional theatre through games, rehearsals and performance opportunities for the non...

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As a playwright screenwriter and director Arthur Laurents has a unique place in the history of theater. In this moving exhilarating and provocative account he presents readers with a front-row look at the making of two of the greatest musicals of ...

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In the 1950's and 1960's, the Royal Theater (then located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland) was the place where new African-American artists made their mark in Maryland! Often considered comparableto New York's Apollo Theater, the Roy...

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A historical drama about the days immediately before Confederation when Sir John A. Macdonald was trying to form the first Canadian Cabinet.

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The purpose of this work is to establish the relationship between the Romantic drama in France of the period 1829-1843 (circa) and the melodrama or "popular tragedy" which flourished in the second-class theatres during the first three de...

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The purpose of this work is to establish the relationship between the Romantic drama in France of the period 1829-1843 (circa) and the melodrama or "e;popular tragedy"e; which flourished in the second-class theatres during the first three ...

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The True Story of this KING of all-time Historical Outlaws is guaranteed to change the history books before the 21st Century has begun. On the Monday morning of April 3, 1882 the World renowned notorious Outlaw was shot at the age of 35 years old ...

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The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, "Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?" As anyone on Broadway will tell you, the answer is, "The book." Tony-winning book writer Robert L. Freedman takes you t...

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How Broadway Works celebrates the unsung, out-of-sight people on Broadway who bring a production to the stage and shows young people interested in theater that there are a myriad of vocations other than acting.

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Transforming Space over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway's Legendary Directors tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off-Broadway. Beowulf Boritt, theater designer and Tony Award winner, ...

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The Dean Martin Show, with its big-name stars--such as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, and John Wayne--glitzy production number, and often risque skits, for nine years owned Thursday nights at ten o'clock on television. But nothin...

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PUBLIC/PRIVATE blends a behind-the-scenes view of the Public Theater's dazzling history with an affecting memoir of the author's life with Joe Papp. She opens with the Public's beginnings in the Sixties and Seventies and the twenty-...

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THE PLAYWRIGHT'S TOOLKIT

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Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a working playwright. At a time when the entire business model of American theatre seems on the verge of implosionand most dramatists survive only through soul-sucking day jobs, the largesse of patrons or ...

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Cai YuanpeiA MusicalWritten in Chinese by Wang HaipingTranslated into English by Ouyang YuThe topic and the theme:The New Culture Movement has a far-reaching impact in the modern history of China. Back then, the New Culture Movement, as the ideolo...

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This collection contains nine most important works written and performed between 1973 and 1989. Three of the plays won first positions in national drama competitions (The Cell, The Family Question, and The Headmaster and the Rascals). Subsequently...

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