(Applause Books). The acclaimed stage director and theatre critic Charles Marowitz in tandem with Jan Kott, one of the most penetrating and incisive Shakespearean scholars to ...

THE STORY: A leading metropolitan drama critic is led by an attractive production assistant into a recently discovered nineteenth-century theatre. There, the critic will film a ...

THE STORY: Having been sent to America to prepare the new world for a forthcoming tour of Gilbert and Sullivan's latest opus, Patience , Oscar Wilde, knee britches and all ...

THE STORY: Picking up where the famous stories ended, the play centers on a death threat against Sherlock Holmes by the supposed son of his late nemesis, Professor Moriarty ...

THE STORY: Orville, an impecunious woodchopper, and his wife, Marti, have a lovingly belligerent relationship. But after a particularly violent row, Marti decides to wreak a ...

THE STORY: The action begins at a stately home in rural England, where Colonel Calvarley, the lord of the manor, suddenly expires (or seems to) after sipping a glass of ...

THE STORY: Begins in the mid-1950s at the institute in Rangeley, Maine, which the famed scientific innovator Wilhelm Reich has established after fleeing from Hitler's Germany ...

Based almost entirely on the author's personal experiences, this concise handbook follows a director's journey from the casting process to opening night, revealing the hidden ...

THE STORY: William Shakespeare, in his mid-twenties, an aspiring playwright without a foothold in London, is desperate to make his mark. The greatest obstacle to his achieving ...

Chosen as the best new musical of the year by the Dallas Morning News, this adaptation of Shaw's burlesque masterpiece employs the sprightly style of a Gilbert and Sullivan ...