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Theater
Theater books encompass the wide-ranging study and craft of stage performance, from interpreting scripts to bringing productions alive. This subject goes far beyond simply acting or watching plays, embracing areas such as playwriting, stage direction, stagecraft, scenography, mime, and even the specialized vocabulary of theater reference. Readers drawn to dramatic arts will find resources on both the techniques and traditions that define live performance.
To refine your focus, consider exploring specific theater topics. Those interested in musical performance may turn to Broadway & musicals, while History & Criticism offers scholarly perspectives. For practical aspects, Stagecraft & Scenography covers the visual and technical side, and Playwriting addresses script creation. Related subcategories allow readers to approach theater from creative, technical, or analytic viewpoints.
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The Show Must Go On: A Comical, Farcical, Musical - Libretto
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A Crazy Little Caf
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Stories Dad Told Me: Manny Azenberg's Adventures in Life and the Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago
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Come from Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical
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The American Musical: Evolution of an Art Form
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The Making of Cabaret
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Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage
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The Gun Show
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The Ultimate Musical Writer's Planner
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Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s
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The World of Musical Comedy
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Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem
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Broadway and Corporate Capitalism: The Rise of the Professional-Managerial Class, 1900-1920
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Directors and the New Musical Drama: British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s
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Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s
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Closer Than Ever: The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire
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In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays
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Sir Georg Solti: His Life and Music
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Here's to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater
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Autobahn: A Short-Play Cycle
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Gays on Broadway
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