 | Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present by Marvin Carlson
Buy new: $22.46 / Used from: $14.36 You need to start with theory.
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 | The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner
Buy used from: $1.75 Beautifully written memoir.
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 | Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical "Follies" by Ted Chapin
Buy used from: $4.99 Great narrative about the creation of "Follies."
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 | Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart by Moss Hart
Buy used from: $16.38 Moss Hart's great paean to his love of theater and George S. Kaufman.
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 | Stephen Sondheim: A life by Meryle Secrest
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.48 Good biography of a pivotal figure in the American theater.
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 | History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett
Buy new: $125.80 / Used from: $2.09 The gold standard of dates, places and names.
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 | The New Radical Theater Notebook by Arthur Sainer
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $7.00 A great look at the turbulent aesthetic forms of the 1960s.
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 | Ghost Light: A Memoir by Frank Rich
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Frank Rich's love of theater comes through on every page.
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 | Towards a Poor Theatre (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Grotowski
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $11.72 Opens up the possibilities of what theater can be.
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 | Drama was a weapon: The left-wing theatre in New York, 1929-1941 by Morgan Yale Himelstein
Buy used from: $71.05 An interesting look at one particular kind of radical theater.
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| Broadway by Brooks Atkinson
Buy used from: $0.59 Great theater critic's take on Broadway.
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 | Feeling and Form by Susanne K. Langer
Buy new: $83.59 / Used from: $26.08 An essential for playwrights and directors.
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| Wit's end: Days and nights of the Algonquin Round Table by James R Gaines
Buy used from: $5.40 A look at the Algonquin Round Table and its influence on 1920s theater.
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 | The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $6.77 The plays may be old, but the theory is still interesting.
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 | The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway by William Goldman
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.85 Time capsule of Broadway in the 1960s with provocative commentary.
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 | Lives of the Circus Animals: A Novel by Christopher Bram
Buy used from: $0.01 Fun read about the theatrical community in contemporary Manhattan.
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| Contradictions: Notes on twenty-six years in the theatre by Harold (Hal) Prince
Buy used from: $2.69 Harold Prince's take on the early part of his life.
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 | Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.89 Arthur Miller's autobiography.
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 | Monster in a Box by Spalding Gray
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.04 Spalding Gray talks about his theatrical travails while he tries to write a novel.
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 | American Musical Theater: A Chronicle by Gerald Bordman
Buy new: $59.85 / Used from: $35.75 A good reference work about musicals.
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 | Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.49 Delicious chronicle of Broadway disasters.
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 | Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980-1993 by Frank Rich
Buy used from: $11.00 Recent New York theater as seen through the eyes of Frank Rich.
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 | Aristotle's Poetics (Dramabook,) by Aristotle
Buy new: $11.00 / Used from: $2.89 The granddaddy of theatrical theory.
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 | Richard Rodgers by Geoffrey Block
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $1.28 Troubling life of a theaterical genius.
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