Theatre: technical and background skills

The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and Expanded


The next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date.

"Throughout training I kept having the thought,
WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

Iconic Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story from a tumultuous childhood in Depression-era Chicago to Bohemian New York in the 1950s, becoming one of the 20th century's most celebrated designers.