Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theater. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare's time to the present. The commentary gives detailed explanation of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning.
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Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi draws together all the set pieces such as "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur dramatics, along with less well-known but equally revealing passages. Interspersed throughout are insights into thea…
Wonder is a highly ambivalent word and idea which can denote woe, horror, or terror on one hand and delight, jubilation, or ecstasy on the other. In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between…
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Middleton and Fletcher. The giants of 16th-century literature are all involved in the mystery surrounding Cardenio; a play 'lost' for centuries, which many believe to be the work of England's greatest dramatist. With his incredible passion for, and underst…
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1840. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XII. Comparison of the English and Spanish theatres.--Spirit of the romantic drama--Shaksp…
The year 1599 was crucial in the Bard's artistic evolution as well as in the historical upheavals he lived through. That year's output—Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It and (debatably) Hamlet—not only spans a shift in artistic direction and theatrical taste, but also echoes…
Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a…
Your one-stop classical workshop! At last, over 175 of Shakespeare's finest and most performable monologues taken from all thirty-seven plays are here in two easy-to-use volumes (Men and Women). Selections travel the entire spectrum of the great dramatist's vision, from comedies,…
A concept EP titled STONE COLD will release with cast members including Isabella Esler, Echo Picone, Lindsay Heather Pearce, Cassadee Pope, and Keaton Whittaker.
The TUNEabomber: Original Cast Recording has released its second single “The TUNEabomber,” the show's title number.
Scott Fagan released a new song from his long-lost 1971 Broadway rock opera SOON, which starred a young Richard Gere.
BORDEN: A New Musical, which explores the Lizzie Borden murders through her sister Emma's perspective, will release a concept album featuring Broadway's Katy Geraghty as Lizzie Borden.
Broadway performer Kimberly Faye Greenberg will release an interactive children's book introducing young readers ages 7–12 to vaudeville history through the stories of two characters discovering their local theater's entertainment past.
That Parenting Musical (Studio Cast Album) will be released in streaming and digital formats.
Concord Theatricals Recordings has released a new recording of “Dreamer (The Familia Version),” by composer and theatrical artist Jaime Lozano, featuring more than 100 Latine Broadway and off-Broadway performers.
You can now get an exclusive first listen of “To Be A Butterfly,” the debut single from the upcoming concept album for the new folk musical The Waiting.
This holiday season, the cast of HBO’s Emmy Award-nominated Original Drama series The Gilded Age will come together for Voices Of The Gilded Age: The Christmas Album, featuring Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, Kelli O'Hara, and more.
AILEY Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack announced her debut children's book INTRODUCING RHYTHM, illustrated by Justin Campbell, designed for readers ages 4–12 exploring movement, music, and self-discovery.
Based on Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s spectacular rock opera, Bark of Millions brings the experience of the show to the page in a gorgeous two-volume box set.
Musical theatre writers Maria Isabella Andreoli and EmmaLee Kidwell released the first single from their developing folk musical THE WAITING, which explores grief and healing through the perspective of the dead.
Musical theatre writers Maria Isabella Andreoli and EmmaLee Kidwell will release “To Be A Butterfly,” the first single from the upcoming concept album for their developing folk musical The Waiting.
Murray Hill will host a one-night-only drag king showcase featuring K.
AGT winner Terry Fator is releasing his debut novel MARLEY, co-written with Jon Macks, which retells Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL from the perspective of Jacob Marley.
The TUNEabomber, a musical comedy about the Unabomber written by and starring John Lampe and Michael Wysong, will release its original cast recording via Joy Machine Records with monthly performances in Los Angeles and Boston.
Center Stage Records released ONCE EVERY HUNDRED YEARS, a song cycle by William Finn and Danny Ursetti, recorded live at 54 Below in New York.
The musical adaptation by Thomas F.
BroadwayWorld has your exclusive first listen to Zachary Noah Piser singing 'Simon's Bar Mitzvah' from William Finn and Danny Ursetti's song cycle, set to be released.
Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon will release his new book Direction.
BroadwayWorld has your exclusive first listen to the track 'You're a Gay Guy' from Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody's original cast album.
The guest lineup has been revealed for a six-episode podcast hosted by President Obama, featuring conversations with Tom Hanks, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and more about books that shaped worldview and society.
The Drama Book Shop will present an exclusive event celebrating THE JONBENÉT GAME, featuring a live scene performance, panel discussion, and script signing with playwright Tori Keenan-Zelt.
We're falling into fall with a great Broadway read! This season, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind.
Once Every Hundred Years – a new song cycle by two-time Tony Award winner William Finn and Danny Ursetti – will be released in digital and streaming formats.
The full audio production of AUGHTS, a radio play written and directed by Jake Lebowitz, is available free on YouTube, podcast platforms, and the show's website.
Music historian and critic Lawrence Schulman will release new titles including a third GARLAND volume and a photographic biography of Judy Garland, with forewords from Will Friedwald and James Fisher.
CENTER STAGE RECORDS has announced the release of The Pianist: World Premiere Recording – based on the new musical stage adaptation of Wladyslaw Szpilman’s internationally acclaimed memoir, the basis of Roman Polanski’s Academy Award-winning film.
Ghostlight Records has released the CHESS (2025 Broadway Cast Recording) on CD and vinyl, featuring Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher from the Imperial Theatre revival.
Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin, Caroline Bowman, Timothy H.
