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On The Roof: A look inside Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
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Hamilton: The Revolution
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I'm a F***ing Star: Get on Reality TV
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The Riverside Shakespeare
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripedes
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Anne Bogart: Viewpoints
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The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition
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Selected Plays: Mrs. Warren's Profession / Caesar and Cleopatra / Man and Superman / Major Barbara / Pygmalion / Heartbreak House
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Collected Plays 1944-1961
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Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955
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Ibsen's Selected Plays
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Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker
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The Century Cycle
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Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1932–1943
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Five Plays: Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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The Complete Dramatic Works
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The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual
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Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama, Series Number 25)
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Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
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What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling
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Copenhagen
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Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
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Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans – The Recent Period 1935-Today
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Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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Torch Song Trilogy
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Respect for Acting
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Five Plays: Antigone / Eurydice / The Ermine / The Rehearsal / Romeo and Jeannette
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Jean-Paul Satre Three Plays
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The Collected Plays, Vol. 1: 1958-1965
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Collection Set: An Actor Prepares / Building a Character / Creating a Role
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To the Actor
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
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Nine Plays of the Modern Theater: Includes: Waiting for Godot; The Visit; Tango; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Balcony; Rhinoceros; et al
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Harold Clurman (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 102 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Eight Modern Plays: A Norton Critical Edition
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Anthony Francis Caputi (Editor)
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Six Plays: The Children's Hour / Days to Come / The Little Foxes / Watch on the Rhine / Another Part of the Forest / The Autumn Garden
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Modern American Drama, 1945-2000
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays
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Lysistrata and Other Plays
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The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays
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The School for Scandal and Other Plays
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A Challenge For The Actor
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The Art of Acting
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Technical Theater for Nontechnical People, 2nd Edition
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list created May 30th, 2016
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