Discusses the theater director's long climb to the top, from his childhood home in rural Florida off a dirt road and with no electricity to working with A-listers like Alicia Keys and Angela Bassett.

"This Introduction is an exciting journey through the different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors and designers, treatment of dramatic material and approaches to audiences. Offering a compelling analysis of theatrical practice, Christopher Innes and Maria Shevtsova explore the different rehearsal...

Irresistibly attracted to the theater from an early age, Theodore Ryan, a brilliant yet unknown playwright, concocts a daring scheme that will propel him into the world's spotlight and satisfy his need for recognition.

While her cousin Jane is doing her a favor, heiress Molly Applegate is holding down the fort at Jane's day care center, getting ready to close it down for two weeks for summer break. Which might have been fine (definitely better for the kids!), except that Broadway producer Dominic Longstreet, reluctant babysitter to his brother's children, had believed the day care would be open. So Molly, sensing a bit of fun here, and with nothing else to do, volunteers...

"An up-close and personal portrait of legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian Mike Nichols, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts-from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels"--

"In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play. Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim...

Book editor and amateur sleuth Samantha Clair attends a play filled with gruesome deaths--one of which is real. "Whip-smart (Louise Penny) amateur sleuth Samantha Clair returns in the newest mystery from Judith Flanders, the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of A Murder of Magpies. Sam Clair figures she'll be a good sport and spend a night out at the theater in support of her upstairs neighbors, who have small parts in a...