Overview

For more than 30 years, The American Theatre Wing has produced the Working in the Theatre seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. Now in book form for the first time, it contains a range of these seminars, with a concentration on the most recent shows and current stars, the information, anecdotes, gossip (yes!), heartaches and triumphs.We learn: What a career in the theatre is really about, from inspiration to a Tony or Pulitzer Prize? How actors prepare? What actors have found to be the best techniques? How writers get their work staged? And how playwrights and cast interact with the director?

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Gathering wisdom from 85 notable playwrites, lyricists, and directors, this book offers guidance for students and writers working in theater. Columbia College Today, March/April 2008

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Robert Emmet Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, and a commentator on the performing arts. He is either the author or editor of some 30 books, the subjects of which include Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Nathanael West, James Thurber and Barbara Pym. As an essayist and book reviewer, he has contributed over 400 articles to many journals and magazines, including The Nation, Commonweal, and Saturday Review. He has also been a drama critic in New York for the North American Review. Long lives in Fulton, NY.

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