Theatre Communications Group: 261 books

Editor Caridad Svich has gathered forty-three essays from admired theater professionals that comprise a volume of inspiring and innovative techniques for creating theater. Inside are words of wisdom and advice from experienced playwrights, directors, performers, teachers, dramaturgs, artistic directors...

World premiere at Signature Theatre Company (Off-Broadway) at the Pershing Square Center in New York City the spring of 2015. The original production was widely acclaimed by New York critics. Inspired by the life of outsider artist Nukain Mabuzza. As it centers on the historical...

Pipeline had its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater (Off-Broadway) in the summer of 2017. Dominique Morisseau won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Award for promising dramatists. Morriseau is an actor and playwright. She has been Award the NAACP Image Award twice for outstanding achievements...

From one remarkable mind to another, Conversations with Anne documents the series of intimate interviews that theater director Anne Bogart has conducted-before live audiences-with major artists and cultural thinkers at her West Side studio over half a decade. In these extraordinary conversations,...

This volume collects for the first time the work of one of America’s most important, vital and original young voices. Turning the American family drama firmly on its head, "Maxwell strips more layers of explanation from the Freudian family romance, shining light on the humiliation and fury...

Through interviews and descriptions of methodology, Breaking the Rules captures the essence of major works by the internationally acclaimed avant-garde company.

- Follow up volume to "The Director's Voice (1988) with over 20,000 copies sold. - Covers 20 major theatre directors to emerge since the first volume.

“A fascinating and provocatively stimulating distillation of three decades of intense conversations between one of the twentieth century’s few true theater innovators and America’s leading writer on the theatrical avant-garde. A splendid book.”—Clive Barnes “Peter Brook continues...

• From the point of view of the “dramaturg”who is the bridge between the playwright and director. • Each production is fully documented including drawings, photos and costume sketches. • Strong academic market appeal • Special coverage in New Jersey, Houston and Minneapolis

"Gripping. . . . Deep in its gut, Mamet's new play argues, everything in America-and this play throws in sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships-is still about race."-Chicago Tribune"A dramatist celebrated for introducing expletives to the American theatre now tackles a truly taboo four-letter...

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama “Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It’s the best musical of the season by a mile...an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely.”-Rolling Stone “No show on Broadway...

“The Light in the Piazza beautifully captures the eternal allure of Italy. . . . The story wraps itself around your heart.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Guettel’s music and lyrics take nothing from the razzle-dazzle bargain basement of feeling; they represent, instead, a genuine expense of...

-Cast album is already a best seller released by Decca Records -Sold out run Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre -Real rock 'n roll musical that appeals to a wide audience base

Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time.