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 My Life in ArtBest Price: $20.95 Before writing his opus manual on acting technique, Stanislavski wrote an autobiography he hoped... |  Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical RentBest Price: $1.74 This book really moved me with Rapp's emotional honesty, and I echo the praises from previous... |  Mary Martin, Broadway LegendBest Price: $13.45 This is an okay book for someone who knows very little about Mary Martin. It is not for... |  An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)Best Price: $7.21 Winner of the National Book Award for best autobiography, An Unfinished Woman candidly... |  To Be Young, Gifted and BlackBest Price: $7.79 This is a good compendium of the author's letters, essays and short prose that comments of... |
 Ghost Light: A MemoirBest Price: $6.99 I can't believe how much time this author spent unsupervised in NYC. Memoir? seems a bit far... |  My Life in ArtBest Price: $29.56 Stanislavsky is still the most influential figure in modern or contemporary theater. In this... |  Life Interrupted: The Unfinished MonologueBest Price: $0.05 My first thought upon hearing that Spalding Gray was missing was that he could not have killed... |  Leaving a Doll's House: A MemoirBest Price: $4.97 Claire has had a fascinating life. Her first love affair was with Richard Burton, followed by... |  Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A MemoirBest Price: $21.84 I only had the opportunity to see one play at the original Circle In The Square Theater in the... |
 Frank Loesser (Yale Broadway Masters Series)Best Price: $31.99 This book was awkwardly organized and makes what had to be an interesting life sound sort of... |  Conversations With August Wilson (Literary Conversations Series)Best Price: $11.50 In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play... |  Scoundrel TimeBest Price: $5.98 Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) originally came to public attention as the author of THE CHILDREN'S... |  Acting with Adler: foreword by Ellen AdlerBest Price: $8.89 At first, you could be not attracted by this book to give you an explanation of Stella Adler's... |  Stephen Sondheim: A lifeBest Price: $8.70 I bought this for my boyfriend, a huge Stephen Sondheim fan, who has already read planty about... |
 The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers and HammersteinBest Price: $5.95 Frederick Nolan tells the story of Rodgers and Hammerstein both as a team and as separate... |  The Queens of Burlesque: Vintage Photographs of the 1940s and 1950s (Schiffer Pictorial Essay)Best Price: $13.80 Marvelous collection of vintage photos assembled into a lovely coffee-table book. It's difficult... |  My Life with Noel Coward (Includes the Never-Before-Published Theatre Writings of Noel Coward)Best Price: $11.00 Don't read this book unless you want to fall more in love with Noel Coward than you already must... |  Somewhere: The Life of Jerome RobbinsBest Price: $13.99 I picked this book up out of curiousity. Jerome Robbins was legendary aong those who enjoyed... |  Burlesque: Legendary Stars of the StageBest Price: $3.94 As another reviewer already said, this book is obviously a labor of love. The author went to a... |
 Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to WickedBest Price: $16.47 Defying Gravity takes readers into the creative world of Broadway and film composer Stephen... |  Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His DanceBest Price: $7.50 All in all, I'm touched by Deborah Jowitt's well meaning and comprehensive biography of Jerry... |  Joe Papp: An American LifeBest Price: $16.70 havent read all of it yet; but ive read her, the authors first book which is pretty accurate; ... |  The Orton DiariesBest Price: $12.48 Absolutely wonderful! A look inside the mind of a genius. Playful, honest, funny and a bit... |  Moss Hart: A Prince of the TheaterBest Price: $6.90 The reader interested in Moss Hart and the golden age of Broadway will be much better served by... |
 Konstantin Stanislavsky (Routledge Performance Practitioners)Best Price: $21.16 Stanislavsky, undisputed pioneer of modern acting technique, continues to form the backbone of... |  David Mamet: A Life in the TheatreBest Price: $12.95 I was a David Mamet fanatic in high school. I had every play, essay, and acting text he wrote... |  Musical Stages: An AutobiographyBest Price: $5.85 (Note: Portions of this review have appeared in lesser detail elsewhere.) Simply stated, Richard... |  Memoirs of an AmnesiacMy son had to explain (to my wife) the joke behind the title. An amnesiac can't remember and a... |  Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas ChildhoodBest Price: $3.49 Reading Farewell, it is hard to imagine how Horton Foote ever followed the path in life that he... |
 Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe OrtonBest Price: $5.95 From beginning to end you will be completely immersed in Orton's life. I didn't want the book to... |  Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His TimesBest Price: $15.00 FROM THE PUBLISHER Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1967, Ewen's monumental... |  The Diary of Lillie Langtry: And Other RemembrancesBest Price: $27.30 I was greatly surprised at the approach Ms. Harper took with this book. Lillie has been written... |  Vsevolod Meyerhold (Routledge Performance Practitioners)Best Price: $27.08 V.S. Meyerhold is considered by many to have been the most brilliant director of the 20th... |  The Kindness Of Strangers: The Life Of Tennessee WilliamsBest Price: $11.99 The last words of the book, "at last there was stillness," exemplify Spoto's ability... |
 My Father Was Carmen Miranda: Memoir of an English Show GirlBest Price: $18.49 I picked up this little gem in a bookstore in Glendale, the title and cover photo having caught... |  Elia Kazan: A BiographyBest Price: $2.45 Elia Kazan was born in Istanbul, Turkey to Greek parents. Immigrating to America at the age of 4... |  Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else Is an AudienceBest Price: $15.64 It's a crime this book is so little known even by admirers of Tennessee Williams. Although... |  Goethe (Life & Times)Best Price: $7.98 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a... |  Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of SortsBest Price: $13.27 I wish I'd known that the book I was paying 14.95 for was a poorly reproduced knock-off of the... |
 Act One: An Autobiography by Moss HartBest Price: $45.00 A look back in time to understand the struggles in defining-and reaching your goals. A study in... |  The Theatricality of Robert LepageBest Price: $32.94 Since the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing... |  Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte LenyaBest Price: $30.00 `Speak Low (When You Speak Love) The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya' edited and... |  Mistress Ruby Ties It Together: A Dominatrix Takes On Sex, Power, and the Secret Lives of Upstanding CitizensBest Price: $5.93 If you're looking for information on the business of S&M, KEEP LOOKING! This author is the... |  Good HAIR Days: A Personal Journey with the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical HAIRBest Price: $14.34 ~ Wow, I finally got a moment to start your book, well once started I couldn't stop. Amazing... |
 Rewrites: A MemoirBest Price: $3.61 I couldn't finish this book. I'm sure Mr. Simon meant well by sharing the passing of his first... |  Eugene O`Neill: Beyond Mourning and TragedyBest Price: $8.99 It has been nearly fifty years since Eugene O'Neill's death. Much has been written about him... |  Oscar Wilde's Last StandBest Price: $5.00 There are a number of ways to count the trials of Oscar Wilde, but what's becoming widely known... |  'Love Me Or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of ExtremesBest Price: $23.26 I have no doubt in my mind, that Sarah Kane's influence will be compared to that of Beckett's,... |  O'Neill: Life with Monte CristoBest Price: $3.00 This revised version of the Gelb's famous biography from the sixties is an incredible read. It... |
 Moli?re: A Theatrical LifeBest Price: $6.95 This is a good modern review of Moliere's life. Although the movie "Moliere" is... |  Conversations with MillerBest Price: $16.70 This collection of a series of interviews will give anyone interested in Miller's plays insight... |  SondheimBest Price: $6.58 Quite a book, but not truly a definitive ''in depth" analysis of Mr. Sondheim's shows. Mr.... |  Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama (Grove Great Lives)Best Price: $11.75 I read this book when it first came out, and was blown away by it. I've read (and dearly... |  Eleonora Duse: A BiographyBest Price: $6.72 The difficulty of describing delicacy in acting is one that Helen Sheehy has not entirely... |
 Noel Coward: A Biography of No L CowardBest Price: $5.88 Philip Hoare has compiled the most complete of all the Coward biographies and I think I have... |  The New Generation of Acting Teachers: More than 20 revealing interviews with today's master teachers on the art and craft of acting | |||
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