Theater Book Recommendations
Theater Book Recommendations
#1Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/15/20 at 9:38pmI am looking for some recommendations. I have Not Since Carrie, Everything Was Possible, and The Untold Stories of Broadway series.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/16/20 at 8:32amUse the search fearure: enter books - but choose SUBJECT ONLY. You'll find gads of threads to satisfy your post.
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BroadwayKiwi
Understudy Joined: 12/27/12
#3Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/16/20 at 8:54pmStop what you’re doing and order Diary Of A Mad Playwright by James Kirkwood... ASAP!
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#4Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/16/20 at 10:51pmFinishing The Hat and Look, I Made A Hat. Sondheim’s 2 volume collection of his annotated lyrics
#5Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/17/20 at 1:13pm
THE THEATER ART OF BORIS ARONSON with an intro by Frank Rich.
GHOST LIGHT by Frank Rich. I had issues with his show reviews but these books are both brilliant.
#6Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/17/20 at 2:23pm
Free For All, the oral history of the Public Theatre compiled by Kenneth Turan.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Ravenclaw
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/17
#7Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/17/20 at 7:44pm
The Season, by William Goldman (of The Princess Bride and All the President's Men fame) is the best book on the theatre I've ever read.
#8Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 4/18/20 at 12:08pm
A real fun read is THE MAKING OF NO NO NANNETTE giving the reader an inside look at the bitchiness and power plays of producer Cyma Rubin and her special treatment of her talented daughter Loni Ackerman. It's a fascinating look at what went on behind the scenes of this production.
cartermoore
Swing Joined: 10/30/22
#9Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 10/30/22 at 4:16pm
Ravenclaw said: "The Season, by William Goldman (ofThe Princess BrideandAll the President's Menfame) is the best book on the theatre I've ever read."
Totally agree with you!
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
#10Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 10/30/22 at 5:06pm
If you like books about the development of individual shows, I greatly enjoyed Isaac Butler's The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America and James Lapine's Putting it Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George.
SusaninBaltimore
Swing Joined: 3/7/23
#11Theater Book Recommendations
Posted: 1/19/24 at 7:48am
Laurapattifan said: "I am looking for some recommendations. I have Not Since Carrie, Everything Was Possible, and The Untold Stories of Broadway series. "
May I humbly suggest my own book, “One More Seat at the Round Table: A Novel of Broadway's Camelot”? It is fiction but I interviewed several people who were there and attempted to replicate the real travails of this golden-age classic from rehearsals to out of town tryouts in Toronto and Boston to its lackluster Broadway opening and its “save” by Ed Sullivan. Kirkus calls it “an engaging and entertaining romp through the tribulations of testing out a new show.” They praised my research as “meticulous.”
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