Theater Book Recommendations

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Laurapattifan
#1Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/15/20 at 9:38pm

I am looking for some recommendations. I have Not Since Carrie, Everything Was Possible, and The Untold Stories of Broadway series.

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dramamama611
#2Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/16/20 at 8:32am

Use the search fearure: enter books - but choose SUBJECT ONLY. You'll find gads of threads to satisfy your post.


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

BroadwayKiwi
#3Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/16/20 at 8:54pm

Stop what you’re doing and order Diary Of A Mad Playwright by James Kirkwood... ASAP!

Alex Kulak2
#4Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/16/20 at 10:51pm

Finishing The Hat and Look, I Made A Hat. Sondheim’s 2 volume collection of his annotated lyrics

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Someone in a Tree2
#5Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/17/20 at 1:13pm

THE THEATER ART OF BORIS ARONSON with an intro by Frank Rich.

GHOST LIGHT by Frank Rich. I had issues with his show reviews but these books are both brilliant.

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Kad
#6Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/17/20 at 2:23pm

Free For All, the oral history of the Public Theatre compiled by Kenneth Turan.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Ravenclaw
#7Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/17/20 at 7:44pm

The Season, by William Goldman (of The Princess Bride and All the President's Men fame) is the best book on the theatre I've ever read.

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Demitri2
#8Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/18/20 at 12:08pm

A real fun read is THE MAKING OF NO NO NANNETTE giving the reader an inside look at the bitchiness and power plays of producer Cyma Rubin and her special treatment of her talented daughter Loni Ackerman. It's a fascinating look at what went on behind the scenes of this production. 

cartermoore
#9Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 10/30/22 at 4:16pm

Ravenclaw said: "The Season, by William Goldman (ofThe Princess BrideandAll the President's Menfame) is the best book on the theatre I've ever read."

Totally agree with you!

JasonC3
#10Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 10/30/22 at 5:06pm

If you like books about the development of individual shows, I greatly enjoyed Isaac Butler's The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America and James Lapine's Putting it Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George.

gennymorgan
#11Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 10/30/22 at 5:26pm

JasonC3 said: "If you like books about the development of individual shows, I greatly enjoyed Isaac Butler's The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America and James Lapine's Putting it Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George."

Thanks for the recommendation! I've heard a lot of positive reviews about Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George", and this book is the next on my reading list. I'm working on one educational paper connected to the theater; that's why I need to read some books. Thanks to https://edubirdie.com/write-my-thesis, I have some parts of it ready, and I even have some time left to read books and write the rest of the research. I'm happy that I decided to use professional help to write my thesis because it's the hardest part, and now I can dedicate enough time to the rest of the writing.

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James1233
#12Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 1/11/24 at 1:14pm

JasonC3 said: "If you like books about the development of individual shows, I greatly enjoyed Isaac Butler's The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America and James Lapine's Putting it Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George.
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What specific topics in theater are you most interested in exploring through books?

SusaninBaltimore
#13Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 1/19/24 at 7:48am

Laurapattifan said: "I am looking for some recommendations. I have Not Since Carrie, Everything Was Possible, and The Untold Stories of Broadway series. "

May I humbly suggest my own book, “One More Seat at the Round Table: A Novel of Broadway's Camelot”? It is fiction but I interviewed several people who were there and attempted to replicate the real travails of this golden-age classic from rehearsals to out of town tryouts in Toronto and Boston to its lackluster Broadway opening and its “save” by Ed Sullivan. Kirkus calls it “an engaging and entertaining romp through the tribulations of testing out a new show.” They praised my research as “meticulous.”  

Ensemble1705892158
#14Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 1/22/24 at 3:06am

Great to see people support theatre.