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Retired entertainer Johanna Kelly writes of life at one of the single 'career women's' lodgings for actresses in New York, and of how performer Carol Burnett helped give its residents a leg up on their careers.
What more can be said about 9/11 and the families who lost loved ones on that horrific day? Well, as it turns out, there is a lot more to learn.
Robin Daniels is a woman trying her best to survive the go-go years of the 1980's, and hanging on by a thread.
In my inaugural column for BroadwayWorld, I told you about a relative newcomer to the romance scene, Robin Covington.
The former VOGUE AUSTRALIA editor lifts the lid on how to get to the top, though not always how to stay there, and discloses some startling truths about the fashion industry in the process.
Letting it be is something that does not come naturally for the characters in this book.
Chris Colfer has written a childrens novel as well as a young adult novel, and Jane Lynch has written a memoir.
A review of the latest book edited by Julia Park Tracey, 'I've Got Some Lovin' to Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen.
Murder Below Montparnasse is the 13th installment of Cara Black's series about Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc.
First, there was 'Kidpreneurs,' a revolutionary book written by brothers Matthew Toren and Adam Toren that teaches even the youngest entrepreneurs about proven business tactics.
Fortune in My Eyes is a fascinating chronicle of how one man, over six decades, moved easily between the glamorous world of theatre and the gritty world of the disenfranchised (gays, prisoners, ex-cons, AIDS patients).
Jane Pritchard, the curator of the dance collection at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, was responsible for much of the success of its 2009 Exhibition, Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes.
I'm sure author Ruby Preston is tired of her books being compared to NBC's "Smash".
What looks deceptively like just a pretty book is love letter to the talented artists who brought Victor Hugo's tale to life.
It's been said that an artist's primary goal is to create something unique and specific that is at the same time universally identifiable.
In an age where union-bashing is all the rage, Performance of the Century: 100 Years of Actors' Equity Association and the Rise of Professional American Theater by Robert Simonson is a powerful chronicle of excellence achieved by union professionals.
No matter how much you think you know about musical theatre, this book will delight and enlighten you.
"Like Emma Livry!" cried Janine Charrat,a French dancer in 1961, as her costume caught fire.
Fans of playwright Alan Bennett were no doubt excited to hear his new play PEOPLE a late entry to this year's National Theatre's schedule and due to be broadcast worldwide on NT Live.
A lot of musicians have written books lately: Pete Townsend, Neil Young, Patti Smith, among others.
For many dance enthusiasts the question persists: do we need another book unearthing more about George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins? Barbara Bocher answers that question in her memoir The Cage, named after one of Robbins' most noted ballets.
BWW Books review of THE CRAFTY ART OF PLAYMAKING by Alan Ayckbourn
When I was a couch potato kid in the 70's I couldn't imagine anything more fun than being part of Lucy Ricardo's crazy schemes.
I intend to review several mini-genres of theater books in this column, anecdotal, critical, nostalgic, historical- but all share the common thread of risk, social relevance and of great storytelling structure.
