Theatre/Directing Reading List

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4 participants (64 books)

Overview

Books about the craft of theatre, with a focus on directing. Occasionally will add some film books of interest too.

Challenge Books

Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance by Jon Whitmore

Directing Postmodern Theater: Shaping Signification in Performance

Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Jon Whitmore

And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World by Anne Bogart

And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World

Anne Bogart

The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition by Tina Landau, Anne Bogart

The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

Tina Landau, Anne Bogart

Then What Happens? Storytelling & Adapting for the Theatre by Mike Alfreds

Then What Happens? Storytelling & Adapting for the Theatre

Mike Alfreds

Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals by Arthur Laurents

Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals

Arthur Laurents

Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing by William Ball

Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing

William Ball

Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style by Michael McLain, Francis Hodge

Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style

Michael McLain, Francis Hodge

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht

Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Bertolt Brecht

Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball

Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

David Ball

Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich

Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair

Frank Hauser, Russell Reich

Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal

Theatre of the Oppressed

Augusto Boal

Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making by Michael Caine

Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making

Michael Caine