For any actor in or on the way to New Acting Teachers of America presents detailed, revealing interviews with 50 of the most influential contemporary American acting teachers, as well…
Jean Anouilh, Ring round the moon. Ugo Betti, The queen and the rebels. Jean-Paul Sartre, In camera.
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he…
Sophocles’ innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral issues. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father…
Scenes from classic and contemporary dramatic works provide a practical approach to learning basic acting skills
THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. GONE WITH THE WIND is having its world premiere and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta’s…
Never have marriage and the family been more scathingly or hilariously savaged than in this brilliant black comedy. The marriage of Bette and Boo brings together two of the maddest…
At first the Sycamore family seems mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is really verklempt.
Theresa cleans the rectory of the local parish to support her unruly teenage daughter. When its priest is forced to leave the church under uncertain circumstances and return home to…
D’you ever look in the mirror and you don’t recognise the person looking back at you? Tom Cavallero, Hollywood actor, and his girlfriend Iona are spending Christmas in England with…
You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running is a collection of four unrelated one-act comedy plays by Robert Anderson.