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Playwrights Teach Playwriting, edited by Joan Herrington and Crystal Brian, is a collection unique in the realm of "how-to" playwriting books. These essays by such well-known playwrights as Chris Durang, Marsha Norman, Tina Howe, Tony Kushner, David Henry Hwang, Marie Irene Fornes, José Rivera, Romulus Linney, Mac Wellman, Donald Margulies explore the pedagogy of playwriting, offering fascinating and valuable insights into the way established playwrights communicate their own creative methods to young writers. Each of the playwrights included in the book has extensive experience as a teacher in a variety of venues. Their chapters offer insight into the unique vision of each playwright and provide practical and tested advice, exercises, and course structures for both students and teachers of playwriting. A concluding essay by dramaturg and literary manager, Mead Hunter, offers career advice for beginning as well as emerging playwrights.

The Playwright Wall Sconce by The Great Outdoors is an elegant outdoor downlight with a hook and loop detail. It will enhance your home's exterior. The metal shades is gorgeously-finished with sand coal, while the aluminum construction and frame offer top-notch durability. Make this eye-catching wall sconce part of your backyard patio or front porch and enjoy its ambient illumination for countless years.

The Playwright Wall Sconce by The Great Outdoors is an elegant outdoor downlight with a hook and loop detail. It will enhance your home's exterior. The metal shades are gorgeously-finished with sand coal, while the aluminum construction and frame offer top-notch durability. Make this eye-catching wall sconce part of your backyard patio or front porch and enjoy its ambient illumination for countless years.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

[Shakespeare, William] Kernan, Alvin B. The Playwright as Magician - Shakespeare's Image of the Poet in the English Public Theater. New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 1979. Octavo. VII, 164 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With several annotations. Includes for example the following essays: The Poet's Place in the World - Images of the Poet in the Renaissance / From the Great House to the Public Theatre - Shakespeare's Sonnetts and the Failure of Patronage / Actors and Audiences in 'The Taming of The Shrew' .../ Catching the Conscience of the King: Politics and Theater in Hamlet / The Playing Tradition in the Popular Theater - The Morality Play in King Lear / 'The Great Globe Itself' - The Public Playhouse and the ideal Theater of The Tempest / The Playwright as Magician / Index / etc.

George Plimpton has compiled the difinitive interviews with some of the centuries most intriuging playwrights including Edward Ablee, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard and Tennesee Williams. The questions are indepth and utterly facinating. We hear from the playwrights themselves on process, craft and thier candid opinons on the state of modern theatre. Undoubtedly the most comprehensive guide ever written into the mind of the dramatist and a must-read for anyone who has an interest in theatrical studies. Other playwrights interviewed are David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, John Guare, August Wilson, Niel Simon and retrospective into the work of Samuel Beckett.

The 6th annual collection of new plays contains an eclectic mix of styles and subjects, all produced during the 2003–2004 theatrical season. Includes an introduction by Dr. Rosary O’Neill.The Beard of Avon by Amy Freed This hilarious comedy crashes head-on into the Shakespearean Authorship Controversy. Bee-Luther-Hatchee by Thomas Gibbons This fascinating drama is about a Black female book editor who finds to her chagrin that her latest best seller, a memoir written by a mysterious poor black woman in the South, is not what it seemed. The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Carson Kreitzer This award-winning drama deals in a fascinatingly surreal way with the story of the father of the atom bomb.Living Out by Lisa Loomer Timely drama about an illegal alien from South America working as a nanny for a California anglo couple. Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage Award-winning Off-Broadway hit drama about a Black seamstress in early twentieth century New York City.Book Group by Marisa Smith A delightful character comedy about women in a book-reading group who spend their weekly meetings getting involved in each other’s personal lives rather than actually discussing the books they’ve read.The Story by Tracey Scott Wilson A riveting drama about a Black female reporter with a fabricated past.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

This collection of exercises is designed to build creative muscle in students of playwriting and will prove useful as well to working dramatists who want to build their skills while stretching their imaginative powers. Contributed by some of America's foremost playwrights and playwriting teachers, these varied and inventive exercises offer new sources for dramatic inspiration, provide ways to embolden dramatic action, and encourage experimentation with the basic elements of playwriting.Christopher Durang, Romulus Linney, and Theresa Rebeck are among the 30 playwrights offering playwriting advice in The Playwright's Workout.Also giving guidance and inspiration are:Janet AllardLee BlessingConstance CongdonKia CorthronLisa D'AmourDan DietzJordan HarrisonJeffrey HatcherNaomi IizukaJon JoryArthur KopitSherry KramerCarson KreitzerCarter LewisCraig LucasEduardo MachadoEmily MannMelanie MarnichEllen McLaughlinKira ObolenskyJose RiveraSarah RuhlCaridad SvichC. Denby SwansonKathleen TolanAlice TuanElizabeth WongMarsha NormanMac WellmanWhile most playwriting guides introduce students to basic concepts and practices, The Playwright's Workout offers a range of imaginative prompts to the creative act of playwriting.

Rosemarie Tichler and Barry Jay Kaplan take us behind the scenes in conversations with thirteen of today’s most distinguished playwrights, including Tony Kushner, John Guare, Wallace Shawn, Suzan-Lori Parks, David Henry Hwang, and Sarah Ruhl. To familiarize the reader with the world of each playwright, Tichler and Kaplan introduce us to the environments in which the work happens, conducting their interviews in the playwright’s home, a dark theater, or a coffee shop. Topics of conversation range from the playwrights’ earliest memories of the theater to finding their unique voices, and from their working relationships with directors, actors, and designers to their involvement in the purely commercial aspects of their profession. Taken together, these conversations constitute a collectively taught master class in the art and craft of writing for the stage. 

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"Playwrights Teach Playwriting 2", created by some of the most well-respected playwrights of our time , is an extraordinary guide to writing plays and teaching playwriting. Framed with a foreword by Mac Wellman that lauds the value of the diversity contained in this book, and a concluding chapter that highlights key insights from the individual chapters, "Playwrights Teach Playwriting 2" provides a powerful tool to writers at all stages of their careers for writing a play and also offers effective approaches to teaching the craft.

Here is Bentley's definitive original text, including his long-suppressed foreword. A major study by one of the leading modern dramatic critics. Introduction by Richard Gilman; new Afterword by the Author. Index.

Paperback. Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023A manifesto for the future of playwriting, this book challenges you to be a part of that future in the belief that it is fundamentally important to write plays. Plays help us understand ourselves, others, and the world around us. Reading this book, you will be challenged to learn your craft, explode what you know, prioritise what is important to you, and write in the way that only you can write.Most books on playwriting explain how to create a believable character in a story driven by plot. This book, however, goes even further in its exploration of the playwrights most valuable tool: theatricality. By learning from the past, and the present, the playwrights of tomorrow can create new, vivid, theatrical drama for the future.This manifesto also examines the process of writing, the art of collaboration, and the impact of writing on a playwrights mental health. It identifies the highs and lows, as well as the trials and tribulations, of life as a playwright in todays world. Theatre is a living artform. It is time for playwrights to acknowledge that fact and to celebrate the unique, primal thrill that a live theatre experience offers us. The future of playwriting is in your hands. Do you accept the challenge? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Women performers and writers gained unprecedented access to the stage with the restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660. This volume gathers the best work of professional female dramatists of the period: The Feigned Courtesans (1679) by Aphra Behn, She Ventures and He Wins (1695) by "Ariadne," The Beau Defeated (1700) by Mary Pix, The Basset Table (1705) and The Busybody (1709) by Susanna Centlivre.

The interaction between the ideas of the playwright and the know-how of the dramaturg is vital to the success of any production. But not every writer is accustomed to thinking like a dramaturg. The Collaborative Playwright changes that by offering a lively dialogue between a highly successful playwright, Bruce Graham, and an equally accomplished dramaturg, Michele Volansky, supported by hands-on exercises to get you thinking and writing in new ways.   The Collaborative Playwright gives you professional advice on how to get started with a play, how to structure it to be performed, and how to work with a dramaturg to turn it into a staged production. Graham and Volansky's fun, smart conversation offers step-by-step advice on each of the components of the craft - exposition, rhythms, characterization, structure, and story generation - all illustrated with clear examples from Graham's own plays.   But unlike other books that advise playwrights, The Collaborative Playwright is written from two points of view: the playwright's and the dramaturg's. It's both friendly and packed with indispensable nuggets of information, including interviews with more than thirty current theatre artists whose collective advice articulates some of the more practical aspects of working in the theatre - knowledge that playwrights need as they write.   Want to write plays that work as well on stage as they do in your head? Read The Collaborative Playwright, listen in as two theatre veterans discuss the crucial characteristics of good writing, and find out why, if you're writing for the theatre, it pays to listen to your dramaturg.

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Anthology of eleven new plays from off-off-Broadway with an introduction by Martin Denton. The plays are: "A Queer Carol" by Joe Godfrey, "Pumpkins for Smallpox" by Catherine Gillet, "Looking For The Pony" by Andrea Lepcio, "Black Thang" by Ato Essandoh, "The Ninth Circle" by Edward Musto, "The Doctor of Rome" by Nat Colley, "Galaxy Video" by Marc Morales, "The Last Carburetor" by Leon Chase, "Out to Lunch" by Joseph Langham, "Ascending Bodily" by Maggie Cino, and "Last Call" by Kelly McAllister.

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

On the eve of its destruction, the once-glorious Weissman Theatre is filled with the ghosts of its past as showgirls from 40 years ago reunite to glamorize the old days and relive bygone memories of promise and splendor. For two jaded middle-aged couples, coming face-to-face with what might have been proves to be a shattering experience. The genius script by Sondheim and Goldman makes a cinematic, nightmarish hallucination of past and present blended together, employing lush era musical theatre pastiche and a deft eye for storytelling to tell not only the story of Ben, Phyllis, Sally and Buddy, but also the story of how the promise of America between the World Wars disintegrated into memory. Considered by many to be one of the best American musicals of all time, and still at the peak of form and craft. Those that saw the original Broadway production in 1971 and the all-star Lincoln Center concert in 1985 remember it as one of the most dazzling and poignant shows ever."A stunning musical...a pastiche so brilliant as to be breathtaking."—New York Daily News"Follies is utterly magnificent."—Women’s Wear DailyStephen Sondheim is the preeminent composer and lyricist of the American musical theatre. His best known works include West Side Story, Gypsy, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Company, among others. Mr. Sondheim celebrates his 70th birthday this year.The late James Goldman is best known for his play and screenplay A Lion in Winter and also was the author of Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole and A Family Affair.