What Can We Learn From Broadway Musicals?
A new guide to musicals about American history, and a new biography of the crucial figure Oscar Hammerstein II, make new cases for taking the form seriously.
Category Archives: Books
Taylor Mac, Walt Whitman, and Adhesive America
Cruising Utopia with the Good Gay Poet.
A Meeting of the Mimes (and Clowns)
In this excerpt from a new book by the founder of Movement Theatre International, the author reflects on the crucial 1988 gathering in Philadelphia.
Before We Turn the Page: AT’s 2022 Reading List
Find a gift for a theatre person you know, or just treat yourself, to one of the books we covered, sampled, or published in 2022.
Making My Playhouse Great
In this excerpt from his new book about running the Pasadena Playhouse for 2 decades, Epps arrives at the intersection of its history and his.
‘Pippin’ in the Belly of the Beast
In this excerpt from a new book about the making of the iconic 1970s musical, the show collides with some real-life drama and danger in the nation’s capital.
Making ‘Sensory Theatre’ for All Ages and All Senses
A new book from a founder of Oily Cart offers an insider’s guide to the world-building of inclusive, interactive theatre for young and disabled audiences.
Taking It to the Streets
Socially engaged performance has a rich history in this country, and it deserves an account as localized and multivocal as its leading practitioners.
How Jack O’Brien Learned to Direct: Watching, Doing, and Living to Tell
In a new memoir, the longtime Old Globe leader and frequent Broadway helmer considers an eventful career and offers tips he picked up the hard way.
Mr. Abbott Meets the Kid: The Care and Feeding of the Revival
In this excerpt from his new memoir ‘Jack in the Box: Or, How to Goddamn Direct,’ Jack O’Brien recounts his fierce face-off with theatre giant George Abbott.
