Download or read book Stage Writers Handbook written by Dana Singer and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Singer, Associate Director of America's foremost playwrights' association, the Dramatists Guild, gathers all the information and ideas stage writers need to conduct their careers in a businesslike manner, with all the protections the law provides. Includes chapters devoted to copyright, self-promotion, representation, production contracts, publishing and licensing agreements, underlying rights and collaboration.
Download or read book The Pocket Guide to Plays Playwrights written by Maureen Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about plays and playwrights in one handy guide by leading expert Maureen Hughes who has had one of her 8 musicals produced in the West End and teaches musical theater. Covering everything from the top playwrights through the centuries to a comprehensive A-Z listing of plays from around the world. Accessibility is a key selling point with factboxes highlighting key or curious facts about the subject.
Download or read book Young Playwrights 101 written by Jonathan Charles Dorf and published by Young Playwrights 101. This book was released on 2005 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101 is a complete playwriting course that uses easy-to-follow lessons and practical exercises to guide playwrights from idea through submission. While it was originally written with young playwrights and their teachers in mind, you dont have to be a student or drama teacher to benefit from YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101: no matter what your age or experience, if youre looking for detailed, no-nonsense advice about the craft and business of playwriting-and to write plays that will actually be produced-this is the resource for you. Here are just a few examples of topics youll find inside: Creating Characters Conflict Play Structure Choosing the Right Setting The "Question" of the Play How to Use an Outline Handling Exposition Using Punctuation to Write Better Dialogue Opening and Ending Your Play The Writing Process Dealing with Writer's Block Choosing the Best Title Recentering Your Play Rewriting Using the Expanded Writer's Web and Troubleshooter's Checklist How to Have a Useful Play Reading The Playwright's Bill of Rights and much, much more Whether youre writing your first play, want to brush up on your skills or are looking for that missing something in your writing, YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101 is the jumpstart you need to write plays that make it to the stage.
Download or read book The Playwright s Handbook written by Frank Pike and published by Plume. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for writers at all phases of their careers - from those who have never written for the stage to those who want to grow beyond their current productions - The Playwright's Handbook helps you craft a script into a successful theatrical work and get it produced. Written by Frank Pike, an award-winning playwright, and Thomas G. Dunn, founder of the prestigious Minneapolis Playwrights Center, this guide contains the expertise of professionals actively working in the theater. Their positive, up-to-date advice is reality based, effective, and tells you up front how to make money with your talent.
Download or read book The Elements of Playwriting written by Louis E. Catron and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2001-12-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a playwright means more than just putting pen to paperit means expressing a personal point of view, bringing a vision to life, developing dimensional characters, structuring a plays action, creating effective characters, creating effective dialogue, and finding producers, directors, and actors to bring a work to life. Catron, a respected writer, producer, director, and instructor, explores these themes and more, presenting the basic principles necessary for writing a stageworthy play. By emphasizing stageworthiness, he shows how to avoid common pitfalls, such as treating a play as literature or being overinfluenced by cinematic writing. Examples from classical and modern plays are included throughout, as are exercises for sharpening and developing skills and practical guidelines on working with actors and directors, getting produced and published, and finding an agent.
Download or read book Playwrights Teach Playwriting written by Joan Herrington and published by Smith & Kraus. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Playwrights Teach Playwriting is a collection unique in the realm of "how-to" playwriting books. These eleven essays by well-known playwrights explore the pedagogy of playwriting, offering fascinating and valuable insights into the way established playwrights communicate their own creative methods to young writers. Each of the playwrights has extensive experience as a teacher in a variety of venues. Their chapters offer insight into the unique vision of each playwright and provide practical and tested advice, exercise, and course structures for both students and teachers of playwriting. A concluding essay by dramaturg and literary manager, Mead Hunter, offers career advice for beginning as well as emerging playwrights."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Playwriting with Purpose written by Jacqueline Goldfinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor. This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance for new and emerging playwrights. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue and silent moments to analyzing elements of well-made plays and creating an atmospheric environment. Each chapter is followed by writing prompts and pro tips that address unique facets of the conversation about the art and craft of playwriting. The book also includes information on the business of playwriting and a recommended reading list of published classic and contemporary plays, providing all the tools to successfully transform an idea into a script, and a script into a performance. Playwriting with Purpose gives writers and students of playwriting hands-on lessons, artistic concepts, and business savvy to succeed in today’s theater industry.
Download or read book Playwriting For Dummies written by Angelo Parra and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional insights on writing, there are plenty of ins and outs that every aspiring playwright needs to know. But where can you turn for guidance? Playwriting For Dummies helps any writer at any stage of the process hone their craft and create the most dramatic and effective pieces. Guides you through every process of playwriting?from soliloquies, church skits, and one act plays to big Broadway musicals Advice on moving your script to the public stage Guidance on navigating loopholes If you're an aspiring playwright looking to begin the process, or have already penned a masterpiece and need trusted advice to bring it into the spotlight, Playwriting For Dummies has you covered.
Download or read book Understanding Plays written by Milly S. Barranger and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2004 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Plays As Texts for Performance offers seventeen plays with critical commentaries that span the range of Western writing for the theatre from the Greeks to the post-moderns. This book introduces readers to dramatic writing as "pre-texts" for theatrical performance written not only to be read, but also to be performed by actors before audiences.
Download or read book A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare s Plays written by Kenneth McLeish and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsizes each play, describes main characters, notes historical sources, and offers a brief critical essay on each play
Download or read book The Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare s Plays written by Kenneth McLeish and published by Faber & Faber Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, essential guide to Shakespeare and his 36 plays.
Download or read book Building Your Play written by David Rush and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Rush takes beginning playwrights through the first draft of a play and deep into the revision process. Drawing on examples from such classics as Othello and The Glass Menagerie, Rush provides detailed models for writers to evaluate their work for weaknesses and focus on the in-depth development of their plays. Rush encourages writers to make sure their plays are clear and focused. He shows how to keep plays dramatically compelling and offers ways to avoid common mistakes that make them dull, confusing, or ineffective. He then distills the essence of traditional revision into key questions and discusses frequently overlooked tools, terms, and strategies that go beyond established methods of evaluation.
Download or read book The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals written by Frederic B. Vogel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). The Commercial Theater Institute sponsors an annual intensive program in New York for individuals interested in producing or investing in the theatre that attracts people from all over the world. The top working theatre professionals offer hard, factual information to those interested in producing for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, anywhere in North America, as well as in the United Kingdom. The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals now collects for the first time the cream of the crop of that advice, from the noted theatre professionals who participate in the program, in their own words. Interviews, contributions, and a resource directory are included from 30 theatre professionals who have won a total of 45 Tony Awards. Agents, directors, production designers, general managers, fundraisers, marketing directors, producers, and theatrical attorneys all offer invaluable advice in a book that will be the definitive resource in its field.
Download or read book The Playwright s Guidebook written by Stuart Spencer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular guides contain useful ideas, they all suffer from the same problems: poor organization; quirky, idiosyncratic advice; and abstract theorizing on the nature of art. As a result, they fail to offer any concrete information or useful guidelines on how to construct a well-written play. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a concise and engaging handbook full of the kind of wisdom that comes naturally with experience. Spencer presents a coherent way of thinking about playwriting that addresses the important principles of structure, includes invaluable writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process, and troubleshoots recurrent problems that many playwrights face.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Becoming a Playwright written by Andrew Biss and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You won't find a lot of pontificating over Aristotelian theory in this book. What you will find is straightforward, practical guidance to help aspiring and early-career playwrights hone their craft and steer their plays toward successful productions. While many playwriting books focus solely on stagecraft, this one also examines the nuts and bolts of getting your plays produced. After all, writing a play is one thing, but it won't have fulfilled its purpose until it's been brought to life on a stage. Examining everything from structure, dialogue, and creating well-rounded characters to formatting, writing synopses and preparing your plays for submission, A Practical Guide to Becoming a Playwright offers a comprehensive explanation of the often challenging process of writing plays and getting them into the hands of producers. Using knowledge and insight gained from more than two decades of writing for the stage and garnering successful productions, award-winning playwright Andrew Biss shares with you everything that he's learned - not from teaching or hypothesizing, but from actually doing. A Practical Guide to Becoming a Playwright is your go-to guide for navigating the frequently nebulous world of playwriting and production.
Download or read book The Playwright s Workbook written by Jean-Claude van Italie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare; The solo performance piece: listening for stories; Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco; The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.
Download or read book Life as a Playwright written by Jon Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the questions central to any playwright's career and identity, Jon Klein offers you a glimpse into a career writing for the theatre. As well as an account of the day-to-day life of a writer, he also discusses what an aspiring playwright should expect as they navigate the industry and how to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Furthermore, the book looks at situations that the emerging playwright is likely to encounter, including: handling rehearsals, workshops, castings, re-writing, venues, reviews, successes and failure. The book concludes with seventeen interviews with other USA-based playwrights, representing a wide range of experience, from writers just starting to make a name for themselves to seasoned, award-winning veterans such as Sheila Callaghan, Steven Dietz, Keith Glover, Lauren Gunderson, John Pielmeier and Jen Silverman. Author Jon Klein has a wealth of experience with over 30 of his plays produced in the USA and over 100 productions, including include T Bone N Weasel, Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Betty the Yeti, and his most recent play, Resolving Hedda. Klein draws upon the lessons he has learned from his associations with numerous established theatre folk, many from the start of their careers. These include figures such as Bob Falls, Gregory Hines, Jon Jory, Kenny Leon, Dan Sullivan, and August Wilson.clude figures such as Bob Falls, Gregory Hines, Jon Jory, Kenny Leon, Dan Sullivan, and August Wilson.
