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Books

Play script books, script collections, Shurtleff, Stanislavski, Uta Hagen and more great theater books

We have searched, sorted, prioritized and scrutinized the wide selection of books available on acting, theater history, play scripts and many other theater related subjects. To save you the trouble, we present our picks here in association with Amazon.com. If you have some favorites, send them to us and we will check them out.

 

Our Favorites

This is a selection of books that no actor's bookshelf should be without.

 

Audition
Author: Michael Shurtleff

An Actor Prepares
Constantine Stanislavski

 

The Perfect Monologue : How to Find and Perform the Monologue That Will Get You the Part
Author: Ginger Howard Friedman

Respect for Acting
Author: Uta Hagen

 

Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions
Editor: Robert H. Hethmon

Sanford Meisner on Acting
Author: Sanford Meisner

Script Collections

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We are always looking for collections of scripts, particularly short plays, one-act plays and 2 person plays and ten-minute plays. Here is a great selection from Amazon.com.

 

Baby With the Bathwater and Laughing Wild: Two Plays
Author: Christopher Durang

One Act Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theatre
Author: S. Moon

 

Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays
Authors: Eric Lane, Nina Shengold 

1 Act Plays for Acting Students: An Anthology of Short One-Act Plays for One, Two, or Three Actors
Author: Norman Bert

 

Seven One-Act Plays
Author: Wendy Wasserstein

Five Comic One-Act Plays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Author: Anton Chekhov

 

Take Ten II : More Ten-Minute Plays
Author: Eric Lane

The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001
Author: Mark Glubke

 

Time Flies and Other Short Plays: Time Flies, Degas, C'Est Moi, Dr. Fritz/the Forces of Light, Basel's in Arms, Arabian Nights,etc
Author: David Ives

All in the Timing : Fourteen Plays
Author: David Ives 

 

Outrageous One Act Plays
Author: Miguel Pinero 

Ten Minute Plays from Oxford
Author: Neil White 

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