Theater Director

This program is read by the authors (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker), Laura Orrico and Joe Praino, with special appearances by an all-star cast of comedy giants, including the film's stars, Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays, as well as Beau Bridges, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Peter...

This book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, from 2012 until 2022. My Shakespeare uniquely captures the excitement, energy, surprises, joys and agonies of working on the greatest of plays; sheds new light on these plays through Doran’s own research and discoveries made in the rehearsal room; and gives unprecedented access into the craft, life and loves of this exceptional director.

A New Yorker, NPR, and Washington Independent Review Best Book of 2025 A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize–winning musicals—Hamilton and Rent. Before he was producing...

The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot, told through actual diary entries from the legendary comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and New York Times bestselling author On March 17, 2005, Spamalot...

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites 40 actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

Blending a behind-the-scenes history of New York City’s Public Theater with an affecting remembrance of her husband, Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Public/Private is Gail Merrifield Papp’s enthralling and heartfelt memoir of a legendary theatrical institution.

You know how they release those "Director’s Cut” versions of movies and they’re mostly self-indulgent nonsense?

Adventures in the Cinema from the sticky seats. Snippets of script, pieces of wisdom, poolside reading fun. Thoughts about movies from a former fan, working writer. Includes --, writing scary movies,sitting in the dark with a medium buttered popcorn and a large drum of Coke and re-living adventure! With brief excusions into "Why Movies (nowadays) Suck" and the making of my own childhood classic The Grandfather! (with apologies to Coppola)..Errant fragments of dreams, stuck to the floor of the neighborhood movie house like that kid's red gum to the sole of my shoe. Madness, mayhem, and ideas...

From master meditation and yoga practitioner, Yogi Theo Mann, comes this posthumously published short, simple, and helpful guide on how to meditate. Yogi Theo dedicated much of his life to the study and practice of meditation. He distilled his vast knowledge of the subject into a guide for beginning and intermediate practitioners that focuses on what works and what doesn’t work when one is seeking enlightenment through meditation. Written for his friend’s father in 2011, The Essence of Meditation is now available to the general public. From the Author (Book Excerpt): I hope that this ...

From Tony Award-winning director and recipient of the prestigious Mr. Abbott Award, Kenny Leon, comes a powerful memoir of the lessons he has learned on his incredible life journey. When Kenny Leon's grandmother told him to "take you wherever you go," she could hardly have anticipated that he...

Become a Better Theatre Teacher and Director with the BEST Must-Have Resources for Every High School Theatre Educator! Stop wasting time and money blindly purchasing resources hoping to find what you need! This book provides a list of the absolute must-have books and online resources with detailed information about what you will get and how you can use it to better your instruction and your theatrical practice. Inside you will find the only resources you ever need for… Drama Games for the Classroom with Educational Insights Purposeful Drama Games for Rehearsals Acting Theory & Practice ...

Since its founding by Joseph Papp in the 1950s, The Public Theater has been an American artistic leader defined by its breadth of programming, from Hair and A Chorus Line, to Free Shakespeare in the Park. With the recent critical and financial success of Fun Home and Hamilton, and its emphasis on new play development, The Public's contemporary history has been equally remarkable, even as world crises and social changes have tested the mettle of its foundation of accessible and "radically inclusive" theatre for all.

I’ve spent eight years hiding in the shadows of the Thorne Theater. Stage manager. Control freak. Professional invisible woman. My job? Make sure everyone else shines while I stay safely in the dark, clipboard clutched like armor, emotions locked down tighter than our ancient stage door. Then Leon Hale walks into my theater. Legendary director. Gorgeous alpha. The kind of man who sees too much and demands even more. He terrifies me. But worse than that—he sees straight through me to the woman I’ve buried for years. When he creates a role called “the Shadow” and puts me on the ...

George Arliss was an actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who was active from 1887 to his retirement in 1939. This genial gentleman spent much of his life in the Victorian Era, and in many respects, he was a child of his times. However, as the 20th century advanced, Arliss realized that times had changed. By the 1910s a contraption called “motion pictures” was competing with his domain of the legitimate theater in which he was one of its most popular stars. Arliss realized that films could no longer be ignored when he received several persistent offers to star in them. When he began...

A timeless classic by George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man is a comedy about love, ideals, and romance. A young woman from a wealthy Bulgarian family is visited in her room by an enemy captain in his flight to evade capture, and this chance encounter threatens her engagement and her high-minded idealism.

Chelsea’s backstage crush on her older brother’s best friend was an epic, embarrassing fiasco. She'd thought that Dean Riley was the man of her dreams back then. But she was wrong. Now, she'd rather break a leg than risk handing him her heart again.