Konstantine Stanislavski Love art in yourself and not yourself in art.
Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments
Brooke Berman
Random House, 2010
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
You may have been there yourself. Well, maybe not literally there (428 East 9th Street in the East Village, New York City).Or there (285 Mott Street in SoHo). Or even there (48 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn). But perhaps, instead, in a [...]
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn
by Robin Galen Kilrain
When Susan Quinn writes, “First the stock market collapsed, then the banks closed, then ordinary people began to lose their jobs,” she isn’t describing this country’s recent financial history but that of America in the [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas
Dawn B. Sova
By Robin Galen Kilrain
Blocked from view. Deemed not fit for the theatre-going public. Cut, sliced and diced. Each of the shows referred to by Dawn Sova in Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas has been “challenged” sometime during the past 2,500 [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Tips : Ideas for ActorsJon Jory
Jon Jory doesn’t want you to read straight through his book. He’s in favor of “tip dipping,” instead. Comparing the cover-to-cover consumption of Tips: Ideas for Actors to downing numerous espressos one after another, Jory suggests that spreading out its ingestion may prove more useful. And enjoyable. [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain~
Playwrights at Work: The Paris Review Interviews George Plimpton, editor
You’re familiar with their names: Beckett, Wasserstein, Shepard, Hellman, Albee and Pinter among them. And probably with the disparate styles of their plays, as well. The hows and whys leading to those end products, however, may have eluded you. Until now. It’s just [...]
Caspar Neher: Brecht’s Designer
John Willett
By Robin Galen Kilrain~
Design. Something that is often the most noticeable element in a production, crucial to the tone, look and feel of a performance, can many times receive little or no mention by critics and audience members. Set designers can feel overlooked, their major contributions to shows seemingly disappearing into [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain
A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
and
And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World
by Anne Bogart
Ye Bare and Ye Cubb presented in a Virginia pub in 1665, and Hair performed in Sarajevo by a Bosnian company during the height of conflict there in the early 1990s. Christo’s [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain
An Acrobat of the Heart:
A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski
Stephen Wangh
While some theatre practitioners swear by the idea of melding physical practices with the craft of acting, others don’t see the point much past blocking notes. Polish director Jerzy Grotowski was definitely in the former group, [...]
By Robin Galen Kilrain
Most people don’t immediately think of theatre books for their summer reading. Then again, if not taking classes in the art/craft of theatre, most people don’t think about them at all. If you’d like to be one of the exceptions, however, you’re in luck. It’s not too late to spend a lazy [...]
by Robin Galen Kilrain
A History of Hispanic Theatre in the
United States: Origins to 1940
Nicolás Kanellos
Zarzuela. Cuadro. Revista. If you already know what these words mean, you will doubtlessly find this book intriguing. If you don’t yet know, you’ll probably enjoy finding out. For though Nicolás Kanellos’ seminal title A History of Hispanic Theatre in the [...]
