Playwriting
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The Playwright’s Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
$21.00 Read moreA Crucible for Creativity: Unleashing the Playwright Within
This engaging and concise handbook is a beacon for both budding and seasoned playwrights alike, illuminating the path to creating compelling- Author: Spencer, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0571199917
- Language: English
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Happy Days
$17.00 Add to cartIn Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and… [more below]
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0802144403
- Language: English
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Writing the Broadway Musical
$15.99 Add to cartBrimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical–book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examp… [more below]
- Author: Frankel, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0306809435
- Language: English
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A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas
$13.95 Add to cartDrawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens–first written as craft lectures for the… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1628973838
- Language: English
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The Physicists: A Comedy in Two Acts
$16.00 Add to cartThe Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world’s great… [more below]
- Author: Durrenmatt, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144276
- Language: English
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Red
$18.62 Add to cart“Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don’t: The exhilaration of the act.” The New Yorker
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening prese- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Logan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1350200441
- Language: English
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Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays
$29.98 Add to cartThis first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Various Authors
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557832781
- Language: English
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Jumpers
$17.00 Add to cart“Jumpers is simply dazzling. It takes your breath away with its sheer exuberance of literacy, its cascade of words and conspicuous display of intellect. It is also extraordinarily funny. Jumpers is on… [more below]
- Series: Tom Stoppard
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160816
- Language: English
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Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen
$35.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction.
Following up his perennially bestselling writers’ guide Story and his inspiring exploration of the art of verbal action- Author: McKee, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1455591955
- Language: English
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Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write
$20.95 Add to cartFor over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys’ remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today’s leading playwrights and theater-makers. Now, wi
- Author: Jeffreys, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1559369728
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest
$11.99 Add to cartThe Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s most popular play – since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1913724050
- Language: English
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Lobby Hero: A Play
$17.00 Add to cartNominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Lobby Hero tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown o
- Author: Lonergan, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802138551
- Language: English
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Rock ‘n’ Roll: A New Play
$17.00 Add to cart“One of the great political plays in the English language.”–Sunday Times (UK)
It is 1968, and the world is ablaze with rebellion. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge gradu… [more below]
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160794
- Language: English
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The Invention of Love
$17.00 Add to cart“Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit.” —Variety
It is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last–yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confron… [more below]
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160786
- Language: English
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A Doll’s House, Part 2 (TCG Edition)
$16.95 Read more“Smart, funny and utterly engrossing…This unexpectedly rich sequel reminds us that houses tremble and sometimes fall when doors slam, and that there are living people within, who may be wounded or l
- Author: Hnath, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 155936582X
- Language: English
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays
$18.00 Add to cart“Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language.”–Newsweek
Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is a showcase for Tom … [more below]
- Series: Tom Stoppard
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160808
- Language: English
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Passing Strange: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
$16.99 Read moreThe innovative new musical that won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Book and is soon to be a Spike Lee film.
“Smashes Broadway clich? with an electric guitar and the funniest libretto I can remember.” –- Series: Applause Libretto Library
- Author: Stew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 155783752X
- Language: English
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The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$37.00 Add to cartTo celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
In the history of postwar American art and politics- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107771
- Language: English
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An Enemy of the People
$15.95 Add to cartWidely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), created realistic plays bringing the social problems of his day to center st… [more below]
- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1722504242
- Language: English
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Mi Lenguaje Roto / My Broken Language
$16.95 Read moreLa dramaturga ganadora del premio Pulitzer y coguionista de In the Heights cuenta en sus memorias la experiencia de crecer en un barrio pobre de Filadelfia junto a su numerosa familia puertorrique?a. … [more below]
- Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegr?a
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 593314867
- Language: Spanish
