Biography & General
Letters & Texts 1972-1984
A collection of letters and collaborative texts written by playwright Sam Shepard and director Joseph Chaikin, covering one of the richest periods of contemporary American playmaking.
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Building arts audiences through dynamic subscription promotion
Examples from theatres all over America demonstrating how to build audiences through subscription schemes. Could be applied profitably to other countries.
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Ibsen on Theatre
A unique collection of everything that Ibsen wrote about the theatre.
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The most successful strategies for funding and marketing the arts
A hundred new ideas for raising money to fund the arts - of enormous value to all arts organisations.
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The Playwright's Voice
American Dramatists on Memory, Writing and the Politics of Culture
By David SavranInterviews with 15 key American playwrights, including Edward Albee, Tony Kushner and Paula Vogel.
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Invitation to the Party
Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community
A handbook on how arts and cultural organisations can attract ethnic minorities and involve them as audiences.
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Spider Speculations
A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling
By Jo CarsonAn investigation into how stories work in our bodies and our lives, from the author of Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet.
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How Musicals Work
And How to Write Your Own
Why do some musicals work, while others just don't? And what should you do if you're thinking of writing your own? Julian Woolford, a successful writer and director of musicals and lecturer in writing musicals at the University of London, explores the musical-theatre canon to answer these and many other questions.
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£16.99£13.59Add to basketEbook£16.99£13.59Richard Foreman: The Manifestos and Essays
A collection of writings from the acclaimed and wildly inventive artist Richard Foreman.
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Year of the Mad King: The Lear Diaries
By Antony SherAntony Sher's account of researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's greatest roles, Lear, in the 2016 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Winner of the 2019 Theatre Book Prize.
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An Actor's Journal
By Giles Terera Foreword by Lin-Manuel MirandaA unique, inside account of preparing for, rehearsing and performing in one of the most important cultural phenomena of our time – Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda – from London's original Aaron Burr.
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On and Off the American Stage
By Holly HillInterviews with twenty well-established American actors including Olympia Dukakis and James Earl Jones.
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Playing Joan
Actresses on the Challenge of Shaw's Saint Joan
By Holly HillInterviews with 26 actresses who have played George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, including Eileen Atkins, Elisabeth Bergner, Judi Dench, Wendy Hiller, Barbara Jefford, Siobhan McKenna, Sarah Miles, Joan Plowright.
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People Who Led to My Plays
A magical scrapbook of words, pictures and memories, capturing the life of a middle-class black girl growing up in the Midwest in the 1930s and 40s, aspiring to be a writer.
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Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
The first, authorised biography of the anarchic comic genius, much cherished for his performances on stage and screen.
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Interviews with Theatre People
By Richard EyreA superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it.
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An Alternative Autobiography
By Simon CallowAn alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.
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In Search of Cardenio
A thrilling act of literary detection as Gregory Doran attempts to rediscover Shakespeare's lost play.
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