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Sense of Occasion

(6/4/2019)

In this fast-moving candid conversational and entertaining memoir Harold Prince the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career. In 1974 Prince released his first book Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre . Although Contradictions has since attained cult status among producers directors and actors alike Prince in hindsight believes he wasn't ready to publish such a tome at that point in his ...

The Flower Whisperer

(5/28/2019)

Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award winning performer, Joel Grey's early passion for flowers and plants helped form a life-long love for nature's beauty. From the tender age of just 10 years old, Grey recalls a childhood spent poring over seed catalogs searching for the perfect flower he hoped to someday nurture with love. Growing up adjoining an undeveloped parcel of land just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Grey enjoyed the magic and splendor of flora while exploring this dark an...

On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide

(5/1/2019)

On Streisand begins with a broad year-by-year outline of the landmark achievements, followed by a short biography, some chapters exploring key points in the artistry, then-the major part of the book-a work-by-work analysis. The work-by-work section is broken down into separate chapters, each organized chronologically: the stage shows, then the television shows and concerts, then the movies, and last (because longest) the recordings. Throughout, Mordden follows Streisand's independence, which he...

Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern)

(4/30/2019)

In Theater of the Word:Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its primary subjects. The morality play is allegorical drama, a ?theater of the...

Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play (ReFormations: Medieval an

Opera in the Tropics: Music and Theater in Early Modern Brazil (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)

(4/23/2019)

Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rog rio Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese vernacular operas and entremezes during the colonial period, as well as the Italian operas that celebrated the new independent nation in 1822. A Brazilian producer claimed in 1825 that the goal of music-theat...

Opera in the Tropics: Music and Theater in Early Modern Brazil (Currents in Latin Ame

The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals

(4/10/2019)

During the Twenties, the Great White Way roared with nearly 300 book musicals. Luminaries who wrote for Broadway during this decade included Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, and Vincent Youmans, and the era?s stars included Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, and Marilyn Miller. Light-hearted Cinderella musicals dominated these years with such hits as Kern?s long-runnin...

The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals

Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood

(3/12/2019)

From the star of Broadway's The Book of Mormon and HBO's Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City When Andrew Rannells arrived in New York City from Omaha in 1997, he, like many, saw the city as a chance to break free. To start over. To transform the fiercely ambitious but sexually confused teenager he saw in the mirror into the Broadway leadi...

Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood

Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond: A Memoir

(3/8/2019)

In this memoir of a roller coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet’s greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his world-renowned company during its golden years. After getting her start on the stage as a child actor on Broadway, Bettijane Sills joined the New York City Ballet in 1961 as a member of the corps de ballet, working her way up to the level of...

Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond: A Memoir

Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow

(3/1/2019)

Best remembered for his role as the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical The Wizard of Oz, Ray Bolger led a rich and extraordinary career in the decade before and more than four decades after the creation of the film. Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow is the first biography of this classic American entertainer, covering the luminous and forgotten career of the eccentric dancer outside of his burlap mask. The product of a fragmented, working-class Boston Irish family, Bolger learned tap and ecc...

They Made Us Happy: Betty Comden & Adolph Green's Musicals & Movies

(3/1/2019)

Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they provided lyrics for such standards as "New York, New York," "Just in Time," "The Party's Over," and "Make Someone Happy," to name just a few. This remarkable duo, the longest-running partnership in theatrical history, also penned the screenplays for such cinematic gems as Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon. In the process they worked with such art...

They Made Us Happy: Betty Comden & Adolph Green's Musicals & Movies

The Incomparable Rex: Rex Harrison: The Last of the High Comedians

(2/4/2019)

Rex Harrison’s fifth – but not last – wife, Elizabeth said of him: ‘I was very fond of Rex before we were married, and even more fond of him after we were married – it ws the bit in between that was so difficult.’ The Incomparable Rex is an affectionate and witty memoir of one of Britain’s great theatrical and cinematic talents, Rex Harrison. When he died in 1990, the English-speaking world lost one of its most eloquent and fastidious high comedians. Patrick Garland worked w...

The Incomparable Rex: Rex Harrison: The Last of the High Comedians

(2/4/2019)

Leonard Bernstein 100: The Masters Photograph the Maestro

(12/18/2018)

Leonard Bernstein is internationally renowned as one of the greatest conductors, composers, musical inspirations, and creative minds of our time. He is also legendary for his extreme passion, raw charisma, and powerful convictions, with a brash, insatiable lust for life that became etched more clearly into the lines of his face with each passing year. As with many celebrities, Leonard Bernstein was constantly being photographed, but unlike most, he was photographed by some of the greates...

Leonard Bernstein 100: The Masters Photograph the Maestro

Thom Pain (based on nothing) [Revised TCG Edition]: With Other Monologues for Theatre

(12/11/2018)

“It’s sad, isn’t it? The dead horse of a life we beat, all the wilder, all the harder the deader it gets. On the other hand, there are some nice shops in the area.” Thom Pain has come to a certain point in his life. Maybe you have too. His entire existence is ordinary; but that ordinariness is a revelation and a wonder and a curiosity. To him at least. He’d better hope so. It’s all he has (except maybe a dictionary and an old love letter). Comic and disturbing, this provocativ...

Thom Pain (based on nothing) [Revised TCG Edition]: With Other Monologues for Theatre

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece

(11/20/2018)

This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. ...

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

(11/6/2018)

From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater

(10/26/2018)

Born in the wrong town, the wrong era, and with the wrong name, Norman Mathews was forced to conjure a more enticing, if imaginary, world to better navigate the perils of childhood. In this world, he didn't suffer from a lack of self-assurance that dashed his dreams of romance and fame. He wasn't psychologically abused by a priest nor did he endure ludicrously funny psychotherapy over his sexuality. And he didn't attempt suicide, nearly shattering his promising future. But in the real world, he...

The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater

(10/26/2018)

Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked 2nd Edition

(10/16/2018)

From his writing of Godspell 's score at age 23 through the making of the megahit musical Wicked and beyond, Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked takes readers into the world of the legendary Broadway and film composer-lyricist. In this authorized biography, drawing from her interviews with Schwartz and his collaborators, author Carol de Giere focuses on the behind-the-scenes stories for Schwartz's hits and disappointing flops. Readers will find colo...

Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked 2nd

Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance (Jewish Lives)

(10/9/2018)

A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joining the family business. In 1936 he began working with Gluck Sandor, who ran a dance group and convinced him to change his name t...

Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance (Jewish Lives)

The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece

(10/1/2018)

The Road to Oz is a complete retelling of how The Wizard of Oz was influenced and created, and attained its iconic status. The new volume by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman will reflect recent research and much more through newly discovered period interviews, media resources of the era, transcriptions and unique contemporary interviews with those who were there. Additionally, never-before-published imagery accompanies the text. In its truth and candor, this new historical contribution is idea...

The Road to Oz: The Evolution, Creation, and Legacy of a Motion Picture Masterpiece

Theatre Goes Wrong: A Mischief Theatre Play Collection; The Nativity Goes Wrong; Peter Pan Goes Wrong; The Play That Goes Wrong; The Comedy About a Bank Robbery

(9/11/2018)

Olivier Award-winners Mischief Theatre have taken the world by storm with their well-crafted and hilarious productions that continue to delight audiences and capture new fans night after night. As a company dedicated to creating engaging and exciting improvised and scripted theatrical comedy their productions have now been seen in every continent except Antarctica and translated into numerous languages. Combining well-honed improvisational and comedic technique with strong theatrical ense...

Theatre Goes Wrong: A Mischief Theatre Play Collection; The Nativity Goes Wrong; Pete

Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight Singing, and Music Theory

(9/5/2018)

(Book). Singers and actors who can learn music quickly and accurately have an enormous advantage in today s increasingly competitive field. With Music Essentials for Singers and Actors, award-winning composer and music director Andrew Gerle has written a music theory text especially for singers, focused exclusively on topics and techniques that will help them in the rehearsal room and on stage. Gerle leads readers step by step through every aspect of written music, using over one hundred real-w...

Music Essentials for Singers and Actors: Fundamentals of Notation, Sight Singing, and

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre: (But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear)

(9/4/2018)

A witty and wicked new guide to the world of theater from the anonymous Twitter sensation and cult London theater figure West End Producer. Packed with mischievous insider know-how, this is the ultimate guide for anyone who's ever been to the theater, or who thinks they might like to try it one day.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre*: *(But Were Too Slos

Les Miserables: The Story of the World's Longest Running Musical in Words, Pictures and Rare Memorabilia

(9/4/2018)

Look back at the 33-year history of the world’s longest-running musical: Les Miserables. This book is an ideal companion for anyone who loves the show. Ever since its first performances in 1985, Les Misérables has been a smash success, and is now the longest-running musical in the world with an award-winning Hollywood movie to its name. Les Misérables: The Official Archives takes a look back through the storied life of this monumental show. Benedict Nightingale examines the entirety of ...

Les Miserables: The Story of the World's Longest Running Musical in Words, Pictures a

Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever

(8/21/2018)

The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today. Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon—and she gave them their money’s worth. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a ch...

Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry that Changed Act

How Rent Made It to the Stage

(8/15/2018)

In 1996, tickets to see the Broadway musical Rent were selling like hotcakes. The show was so popular that many folks saw it multiple times and even dressed up like their favorite characters. Some Rent heads even slept overnight on the sidewalk in order to be sure of getting a ticket for the next performance. Everything about the show was new and exciting. This book not only tells the story of Rent's journey to Broadway, it will also help readers understand why the show was so successful and wh...

How the Lion King Made It to the Stage

(8/15/2018)

Everybody knows The Lion King, the story of a little cub that grows up to become the king of the Pride Lands. Few, however, know the story of how The Lion King came to be the king of all musicals. It is the highest-grossing show on Broadway, earning over 1.3 billion dollars at the box office. This book takes you on the journey that began with the modest idea of an animated movie about lions and hyenas. You'll see for yourself why this musical has played on every continent except Antarctica to m...

How Cats Made It to the Stage

(8/15/2018)

In theater, some shows succeed and some fail. Cats, which opened in London on May 11, 1981, and in New York City on October 7, 1982, was a success that changed history. The Hamilton of its time, and a winner even now, Cats has become one of the great landmark musicals of British and American theater. Treat your readers to the real story of the show. Covering the show's roots in the comic poetry of T. S. Eliot through to the musical's modern revivals, this book traces the history of an iconic Br...

How Annie Made It to the Stage

(8/15/2018)

Annie is a landmark play that has made many contributions to musical theater, including the song Tomorrow. The original play was staged more than two thousand times on Broadway, and it has been presented continuously around the world by touring companies and local theater groups. It has been made into big-screen and television movies and has gone through several revivals. Its greatest achievement was to restore the musical to prominence, opening the way for the staging of the greatest blockbust...

How Hamilton Made It to the Stage

(8/15/2018)

In July 2008, playwright and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda bought a book to read on vacation. Little did he know that his random choice would eventually help him change the face of Broadway. The book was Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton, an original Founding Father of the United States. Seven years later, Miranda's revolutionary hip-hop musical opened to tremendous reviews, sold-out performances, and record-breaking awards. What inspired Miranda to tell Hamilton's story using twenty...

Dance in the Mirror: The ballet photography of John R. Johnsen

(8/14/2018)

Dance in the Mirror is an ultimate celebration of dance, and not least ballet, in all its many guises. In particular, it pays homage to Danish ballet photographer John R. Johnsen (1945-2016), whose work is presented here in collected form for the first time. Artistically, Johnsen towers above the vast majority of his contemporaries, and in the period 1967-96, during which he photographed the Royal Danish Ballet and leading international companies such as New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey Americ...

Dance in the Mirror: The ballet photography of John R. Johnsen

The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil RIghts Era (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

(8/10/2018)

Jonathan Shandell provides the first in-depth study of the historic American Negro Theatre (ANT) and its lasting influence on American popular culture. Founded in 1940 in Harlem, the ANT successfully balanced expressions of African American consciousness with efforts to gain white support for the burgeoning civil rights movement. The theatre company featured innovative productions with emerging artists—Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and many others—who would become giants of sta...

The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil RIghts Era (Studies Theatre Hist & Cult

Plays for the Public

(8/7/2018)

In his five decades of work in theatre, Richard Foreman has become known as the figurehead of the “downtown” scene, the king of all things experimental and unconventional. This brand new anthology is a tribute to his mammoth acclaim, including such memorable works as The Gods are Pounding My Head, Idiot Savant, and Old-Fashioned Prostitutes. Richard Foreman is an avant-garde theatre pioneer and founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. He has written several dozen works for the stage,...

Wonderful Design: Glamour in the Hollywood Musical

(8/3/2018)

As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously. The genre allows for hyperbolic expression, extravagant sonic and visual décor, and extremely stylized forms of movement and performance. By staging a glittering spectacle, by releasing a current of lush sentiment, by unveiling a world of elegance and romance, the film musical woos us with patterns, textures, finesse and sensory display. In this book, author Chip Whitesell asks...

Wonderful Design: Glamour in the Hollywood Musical

The Costume Supervisor’s Toolkit: Supervising Theatre Costume Production from First Meeting to Final Performance

(8/1/2018)

The Costume Supervisor’s Toolkit explores the responsibilities of a Costume Supervisor within a theatrical, opera or dance production company. Rebecca Pride provides an insight into all manner of processes, beginning with a definition of the role, and offers explanations of the timeline from the first design meetings, leading all the way up to managing fittings and final rehearsals. This how-to guide outlines best working practices, including building a team and creating a Costume Bible, whil...

The Costume Supervisor’s Toolkit: Supervising Theatre Costume Production from First

Peggy to her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

(7/31/2018)

Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients including Alan Ayckbourn, Robert Bolt, Caryl Churchill, Joe Orton, Howard Brenton and many more, shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on. To her remarkable array of clients; her letter writing was notorious, marked by searing candour, both a wondrous motivation and an unforgiving scrutiny to be feared. Revelations in the book of her letters Peg...

Peggy to her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent

Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific (Theater in the Americas)

(7/30/2018)

Contextualizing the techniques and methods of the incredibly rich and vital genre of site-specific performance, author Bertie Ferdman traces the evolution of that term. Originally used for experimental staging practices and then later also for engaged situational events, site-specific is no longer sufficient for the genre’s many contemporary variations. Using the term off-site, Ferdman illustrates five distinct ways artists have challenged the disciplinary framework of site-specific theatr...

Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific (Theater in the Americas)

Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables (The Fourth Wall)

(7/30/2018)

Did Les Misérables make you miserable? Or did it inspire you? When Sarah Whitfield was a teenager, her Dad frequently embarrassed her with his love of this musical above all others. So, after he was diagnosed with late stage cancer, Whitfield set out to find out why this musical meant so much to him and to its worldwide following. In this new book, she asked her Dad and 350 other people how they felt about this musical, exploring people’s personal connections with the show. In the middle ...

Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables (The Fourth Wall)

Boho Days: The Wider Works of Jonathan Larson

(7/17/2018)

"I'm writing one great song before I..." When Jonathan Larson died, he left behind a musical poised to become a world-spanning phenomenon. When RENT struck, Larson became a legend - and his work legendary. But legends and overnight successes are never spawned from nothing, and the story of how Jonathan Larson became a Tony Award winning composer and Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist has never been covered in depth - until now. By looking at Larson's entire 16-year output, Boho Days look...

Boho Days: The Wider Works of Jonathan Larson

Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie (Performance Books)

(7/12/2018)

This book offers a wealth of resources, critical overviews and detailed analysis of Ivo van Hove's internationally acclaimed work as the foremost director of theatre, opera and musicals in our time. Stunning production photos capture the power of van Hove's directorial vision, his innovative use of theatrical spaces, and the arresting stage images that have made his productions so popular among audiences worldwide over the last 30 years. Van Hove's own contribution to the book, which includes a...

Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie (Performance Books)

Making Oscar Wilde

(7/1/2018)

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. "Succ...

Nightfall

(6/19/2018)

On a farm outside Winchester, Ryan struggles to make a living off the land. His sister Lou has returned home after the death of their father to support Jenny, their formidable mother. Now, when Lou’s boyfriend Pete reappears, flush with money from his job at an oil refinery, Jenny fights to hold her children to the life she planned for them.

And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove

(6/12/2018)

Equal parts memoir and cultural history, from acclaimed comic stylist and professional hobbyist Henry Alford comes a hilarious journey through the world of dance that will inform, entertain and leave readers tapping their toes. When Henry Alford wrote about his experience with a Zumba class for The New York Times, little did he realize that it was the start of something much bigger. Dance would grow and take on many roles for Henry: exercise, confidence builder, an excuse to travel, a source...

And Then We Danced: A Voyage into the Groove

God and Hamilton: Spiritual Themes from the Life of Alexander Hamilton and the Broadway Musical He Inspired

(6/7/2018)

Discover Spiritual Truths from the Smash Broadway Hit Hamilton that Will Transform Your Life Hamilton?the hip-hop musical about a forgotten Founding Father?is the most compelling musical of our time. But if you watch it without understanding the spiritual themes of Alexander Hamilton’s life, you only get half the story. Discover how Hamilton is a modern-day parable that will: Lead you into a deeper experience of God’s grace Help you battle guilt and shame Challenge you to forgive I...

God and Hamilton: Spiritual Themes from the Life of Alexander Hamilton and the Broadw

For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday

(6/5/2018)

After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood, pouring whiskey and sharing memories. The eldest, Ann, reminisces about her days playing Peter Pan at the local children’s theater, and soon the five are transported back to Neverland. For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday is a fantastical exploration of the enduring bonds of family, the resistance to “growing up,” and the inevitability of growing old.

Take You Wherever You Go

(6/5/2018)

Starting from humble beginnings under his grandmother's care, Leon takes us to unexpected places in his ascent to the top from the house off the dirt road without electricity in rural Florida to being the first African American director to win a Tony Award. In TAKE YOU WHEREVER YOU GO, Kenny reflects on the lessons he learned every step of the way from the most important people in his life-from his grandmother's sagacious and encouraging motivations to the deep artistic influence of iconic Amer...

The Band's Visit: A New Musical - Vocal Selections

(6/1/2018)

(Vocal Selections). Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, The Band's Visit is a musical adaptation of the 2007 Israeli film of the same name. This vocal selections folio features 11 vocal line arrangements with piano accompaniment composed by David Yazbek: Answer Me * The Beat of Your Heart * Haled's Song About Love * It Is What It Is * Itzik's Lullaby * Omar Sharif * Papi Hears the Ocean * Something Different * Soraya * Waiting * Welcome to Nowhere.

The Band's Visit: A New Musical - Vocal Selections

Fraver by Design: Five Decades of Theatre Poster Art from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Beyond

(5/28/2018)

From The Lion King to Moose Murders and from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to Agatha Christie?s The Mousetrap, celebrate the Drama Desk Award-winning artwork of Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo with more than 250 of his theatre poster designs from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and around the globe. For the first time in his five-decade career, this monograph collection will take you behind-the-scenes into the world of theatrical advertising through a rare look at 40 unpublished poster sketches for some of Broadway's ...

Fraver by Design: Five Decades of Theatre Poster Art from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and

Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die

(5/25/2018)

From the tip of Cornwall to the Isle of Mull, through rural communities and the inner-city, Amber Massie-Blomfield takes the road less travelled to discover Britain's most astonishing and unexpected theatres. A ruined playhouse, haunted halls, a stage hewn from granite cliffs. Theatres on wheels, squeezed into a former public lavatory and rescued from fire. A theatre that is not there at all. Making the case for radical, quirky and non-conforming performance spaces alongside iconic venues, this...

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