Category Archives: Book/Media Reviews
Book Review: A Life-Coaching Approach to Screen Acting
A Life-Coaching Approach to Screen Acting Daniel Dresner London: Methuen Drama, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1350039438 Daniel Dresner sets out to offer the student of film acting valuable support both as a fledgling artist and as a person in his book A Life-Coaching Approach to Screen Acting. I can report that he succeeds. A Life-Coaching Approach to […]
Theatre Library Association Announces 2017 Book Award Winners
The Theatre Library Association is proud to announce the TLA Book Award winners for English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting, published in 2017. The 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to by Sarah E. Chinn for Spectacular Men: […]
Book Review: Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production
Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production Dr. Robert Knopf London: Methuen Drama, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1408184301 Dr. Robert Knopf’s Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides an insightful and adept guide to a practice that has proven elusive to both theatre students and practitioners. As the author […]
Book Review: 100 Greatest American Plays
100 Greatest American Plays Thomas S. Hischak Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1442256057 Over time, theatregoers and practitioners develop their own mental list of favorite plays, though they may never bother to commit their list to paper. We are, of course, each entitled to our own criteria for the selections we make of […]
TLA Now Accepting 2018 Book Award Nominations
Nominations are now open for the 2018 Theatre Library Association Book Awards! Presented annually, the Theatre Library Association Book Awards recognize works of performing arts scholarship published during the previous calendar year that demonstrate exemplary use and interpretation of library and archival collections. The two award categories are: The George Freedley Memorial Award honors English-language […]
Theatre Library Association Announces 2016 Book Award Winners
The Theatre Library Association is proud to announce the TLA Book Award winners for English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting, published in 2016. The 2016 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance will be awarded to Peter Benes for For a Short Time […]
Book Review: The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade
The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade. Edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0472053360. For those of a certain age, or even younger, “The Sixties,” writ large, is an era of extraordinary cultural change, indelible in its historic […]
Book Review: By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill
By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O’Neill Barbara and Arthur Gelb New York: Marian Wood Books/Putnam, 2016 ISBN 978-0399159114 Eugene O’Neill’s towering predominance among American dramatists is, quite simply, undeniable. Winner of a Nobel Prize, a record four Pulitzer Prizes, his fifty-plus plays written beginning in the late 1910s established a standard for Broadway […]
Book Review: Experiencing Stanislavsky Today
Experiencing Stanislavsky Today Stephanie Daventry French and Philip G. Bennet. London: Routledge, 2016 ISBN 978-0415693950 In Experiencing Stanislavsky Today, authors Stephanie Daventry French and Philip G. Bennett introduce new performers to the tenets and practices of Konstantin Stanislavsky’s highly influential System of acting. The authors have coupled an expert understanding of Stanislavsky’s life and […]
Book Review: Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words
Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words. By John Mayer. New York: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4742-3945-5. The Steppenwolf Theatre Company mostly tells its own extraordinary story in John Mayer’s engaging book examining the methods, history, and overall mission of the company which, among other things, has created a much-imitated dynamic ensemble […]