Theater

How do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach....

A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, who is the only producer to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals—Hamilton and Rent. Read by the author and a full cast of Broadway and Off-Broadway actors!

The audiobook sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an audiobook of ideas and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history. Her decades of experience and teaching have been brilliantly captured and encapsulated by Howard Kissel, in the 22 lessons you'll hear in this audiobook.

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This audiobook follows one of his acting classes for 15 months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays....

Harvey Fierstein’s legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood and back. He’s received accolades and awards for acting in and/or writing an incredible string of hit plays, films, and TV shows....

In this first-ever audio edition of his classic work, Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help listeners not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well. An Actor Prepares is brilliantly narrated by Mike Fraser.

Respect for Acting is a book for actors and audiences who understand the need for truth in the creative process.

In Shakespeare's most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved....

The long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction....

Love and wit conquer all in Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise....

Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film O Bedlam! O Bedlam!, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War. This is the story of the story of that quest.

The memoirs of Mary Rodgers―writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “a woman who tried everything”....

In this brand new audio edition of her second classic book, A Challenge for the Actor, she greatly expands her thinking about acting in a work that brings the full flowering of her artistry, both as an actor and as a teacher.

Moss Hart's Act One is one of the greatest American memoirs - a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak....

For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical....

Imagine 50 Cent’s Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter written by a nerdy Black kid from Newark, New Jersey, who made it big despite the skepticism of his family. That’s Top Billin'....

The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical....

Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a specter from beyond the grave bearing a grim message....

Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world’s most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights....

At the heart of this tragic history is one of Shakespeare's most noble characters, Brutus, who is caught in a devastating conflict between private affection and public duty....

The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off - through the dizzying highs and darkest lows - with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks....

A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century....

Instead of starting with what is real and trying to wrestle that onto the screen, Patrick Tucker explains how to work with the realities of a shoot....

In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his 70-year career....