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The Colony Bookstore - Production and Direction


Highly Recommended Titles on Production and Direction of Live Theatre.. Books that belong in every theatre-lover's library:

Acting and Directing
Russell J. Grandstaff

Anne Bogart: Viewpoints (Career Development Series)
Michael Bigelow Dixon, Joel A. Smith

At Work With Grotowski on Physical Actions
Thomas Richards, Jerzy Grotowski

Contemporary Stage Directing
George Black

David Belasco; Naturalism in the American Theatre
Lise-Lone Marker

David Merrick: The Abominable Showman: The Unauthorized Biography
Howard Kissel

Directing Beckett (Theater - Theory-Text-Performance Series)
Lois Oppenheim (Editor)

Directing the Action: Acting and Directing in the Contemporary Theatre (The Applause Acting Series)
Charles Marowitz

Directing for the Stage: A Workshop Guide of 42 Creative Training Exercises and Projects
 Terry John Converse

Directing Plays: A Working Professional's Method
Stuart Vaughan, Stuart Vaughn

Directing Plays (Theatre Arts)
Don Taylor

The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews
Arthur Bartow, Arhtur Bartow

Entrances: An American Director's Journey
Alan Schneider

From Option to Opening: A Guide to Producing Plays Off-Broadway
Donald C. Farber

From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theatre
Armond Fields, L. Marc Fields

Fundamentals of Play Directing
Alexander Dean, Lawrence Carra

Great Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook
David Richard Jones

The Great Stage Directors: 100 Distinguished Careers of the Theater
Samuel L. Leiter

The Honourable Beast: A Posthumous Autobiography
John Dexter

If You Don't Dance They Beat You
Jose Quintero

Ingmar Bergman: A Life in the Theatre (Directors in Perspective)
Lise-Lone Marker, Frederick J. Marker

Joe Papp: An American Life
Helen Epstein

Joseph Chaikin; Exploring at the Boundaries of Theater (Directors in Perspective)
Eileen Blumenthal

Julie Taymor, Playing With Fire: Theater Opera Film
Eileen Blumenthal, Julie Taymor

Kicking Against the Pricks: A Theatre Producer Looks Back: The Memoirs of Oscar Lewenstein
Oscar Lewenstein

Margo: The Life and Theatre of Margo Jones
Helen Sheehy

Melting the Stone: A Journey Around My Father
Richard Olivier, Richard W. Oliver

Meyerhold: A Revolution in Theatre (Studies in Theatre History and Culture)
Edward Braun

On Directing
Harold Clurman

Peter Brook (Directors in Perspective)
Albert Hunt, Geoffrey Reeves

Play Directing: Analysis, Communication, and Style
Francis Hodge

Play Directing in the School: A Drama Director's Survival Guide
David Grote

Playing Director: A Handbook for Beginners
Rick Desrochers

Play Director's Survival Kit: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Producing Theatre in Any School or Community Setting
James W. Rodgers, Wanda C. Rodgers

A Profile of Jonathan Miller
Michael Romain

Putting on a Play
Nick Pryor

The Production Notebooks: Theatre in Process (Theatre in Process, Vol 1) Vol 1
Mark Bly (Editor), et al 

Rehearsal Management for Directors
David Alberts

The Shifting Point: 1946-1987
Peter Brook

The Shuberts of Broadway: A History Drawn from the Collections of the Shubert Archive
Brooks McNamara 

Scriptwork: A Director's Approach to New Play Development
David Kahn, Donna Breed

Staging Musical Theatre
Deborah Novak, Elaine Adams Novak

Stanislavsky Directs
Nikolai Gurchakov, Kikolai Gorchakov

Theatre Management and Production in America: Commercial, Stock, Resident, College, Community, and Presenting Organizations
Stephen Langley

 

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Learn more about the 2008-2009 Season with descriptions of each play, dates and links (when available) to the play's program itself!
 
The Season kicks off with the enchanting The Voice of the Prairie, radio before Garrison Keillor. Next, Educating Rita the classic comedy that explores what it really means to be educated. Then "Mary's Wedding Hot new playwright Stephen Massicotte spins a breathtaking saga about young lovers who must surrender their fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. Then, Candida George Bernard Shaw's story of a love triangle -- and a woman's choice between two men who love her.. Finally, the Los Angeles Premiere of a hilarious, sexy musical No Way to Treat a Lady.
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For almost 30 years The Colony Theatre Company has presented exciting theatre. We've stored just about all of our play programs, many of which contain links to bios of the actors and presentation staff, along with some pictures...for the memories.
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