Theater books of 2017 to read in 2018?

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/30/17 at 3:35pm

What theater book (which includes scripts) do you recommend?

 

Here is my list:

Theater books of 2017 to read in 2018

[Harriet Craig]

Posted: 12/30/17 at 5:56pm

A couple of choices for the Anglophile theater fan:

Tim Pigott-Smith's memoir, Do You Know Who I Am? I'm currently partway through the book and enjoying it very much (enjoyment marred only by sadness at his too-early death this year). 

Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women, by Harriet Walter. A Christmas present which I haven't read yet. If it's as good as Walter's book, Other People's Shoes (not a 2017 book, although I read it in 2017), it should be a good read.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/30/17 at 7:07pm

I am so behind. Was going to read Cursex Child but I am seeing it in May so don't want to know the story beforehand.

[ggersten]

Posted: 12/30/17 at 8:23pm

Harriet Craig said: "A couple of choices for the Anglophile theater fan:

Tim Pigott-Smith's memoir, Do You Know Who I Am? I'm currently partway through the book and enjoying it very much (enjoyment marred only by sadness at his too-early death this year).

Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women, by Harriet Walter. A Christmas present which I haven't read yet. If it's as good as Walter's book, Other People's Shoes (not a 2017 book, although I read it in 2017), it should be a good read."

"Everything you always wanted to know about going to the theatre but were too sloshed to ask, dear" by West End Producer

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/30/17 at 11:25pm

Just put the West End Producer book on my kindle list.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 12/30/17 at 11:59pm

I really liked Dominic Dromgoole's "Hamlet, Globe to Globe".

[ggersten]

Posted: 12/31/17 at 12:50am

uncageg said: "Just put the West End Producer book on my kindle list."

Warning: it's very funny. It's also very West End-ish. I'd have missed a bunch if we hadn't lived in London for several months, and if I hadn't continued perusing Theatreboard.  

By the way, BroadwayWorld does get a shout out on page 16. 

[Alfie6]

Posted: 12/31/17 at 3:48pm

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Broadway-Definitive-Plays-Musicals/dp/076035734X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1514753119&sr=8-2&keywords=broadway+the+definitive

I got this as a gift and it is stunning, beautiful pictures and really interesting information about shows that I both loved and never heard of before. 

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 1/1/18 at 4:13pm

Thank you, Alfie. Grode's book was originally published in 2015, but he's updated it for this 2017 edition, so I've added it to my list.