Amnon Kabatchnik's BLOOD ON THE STAGE, 1975-2000 Named Finalist in 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards

Amnon Kabatchnik has been named a finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards competition.

An annual national book program, the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards was created to highlight the year's most distinguished books from independent publishers. This year's awards garnered over 1300 entries representing over 700 publishers. Winners will be announced sat the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago, on Friday, June 28, 2013.

Amnon Kabatchnik's latest work, Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection is among finalists in the Reference category of the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.

In Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000, Kabatchnik, an award-winning director and professor, provides an overview of the milestone plays of crime, mystery and detection produced in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 continues the study of Kabatchnik's previous volumes (Blood on the Stage, 1900-1925; Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950; and Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975).

A comprehensive and meticulously-researched volume, Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 examines a time period that for sheer adventure, excitement and heart-pounding thrills, may be the genre's most intriguing era. The plays encompass suspenseful melodramas, psychological thrillers, baffling whodunits, and even musicals, including such memorable works as Deathtrap, American Buffalo, Death and the Maiden, A Few Good Men, Sweeney Todd, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and The Phantom of the Opera.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Amnon Kabatchnik received his BS degree in theatre and journalism from Boston University where he graduated summa cum laude, and won the Rodgers & Hammerstein Award. Kabatchnik also holds an MFA degree in directing from the Yale School of Drama. He served as Professor of Theatre at several universities, including Stanford University and Ohio State University, and directed numerous dramas, comedies, thrillers and musicals for off-Broadway, national road companies, resident theatres, summer stock, and abroad. In addition to the Blood on the Stage volumes, Kabatchnik is also the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Stage: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Plays Featuring the Great Detective. Visit Amnon Kabatchnik online at: www.amnonkabatchnik.com

Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 (Scarecrow Press, Hardcover, 608 pages, ISBN: 978-0-8108-8354-3, $125.00) is available wherever fine books are sold. Blood on the Stage is also available in an eBook edition.