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Upcoming Theater Book Releases for March 2012

Welcome to BroadwayWorld.com's new upcoming release calendar for Broadway and theatre related Books for March, 2012. For a complete schedule of upcoming releases as well as searchable databases of thousands of the top theatre books, cds and videos, click here.

The Astaires: Fred & Adele
by Kathleen Riley
Released on Oxford University Press, USA on 3/1/12

Before "Fred and Ginger," there was "Fred and Adele," a show-business partnership and cultural sensation like no other. In our celebrity-saturated era, it's hard to comprehend what a genuine phenomenon these two siblings from Omaha were. At the height of their success in the mid-1920s, the Astaires seemed to define the Jazz Age. They were Gershwin's music in motion, a fascinating pair who wove spe... (more...)

Sixty-Two Comedy Duet Scenes for Teens
by Laurie Allen
Released on Meriwether Pub on 3/1/12

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102 Monologues for Middle School Actors
by Rebecca Young
Released on Meriwether Pub on 3/1/12

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The Actor as Storyteller
by Bruce Miller
Released on Limelight on 3/1/12

The Actor as Storyteller is intended for serious beginning actors. It opens with an overview, explaining the differences between theater and its hybrid mediums, the part an actor plays in each of those mediums. It moves on to the acting craft itself, with a special emphasis on analysis and choice-making, introducing the concept of the actor as storyteller, then presents the specific tools an actor... (more...)

After My Life in Art
by Anatoly M. Smeliansky
Released on Routledge on 3/1/12

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Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians
by M. A. Katritzky
Released on Ashgate Pub Co on 3/1/12

In early modern Europe medicine and theatre were often regarded as part of the same popular culture. Itinerant medical 'quacks' and troupes of actors were both integral parts of everyday life, each drawing upon theatricality to attract customers and promote their services. In this study, the writings of three renowned physicians - the Swiss Platter brothers and their Austrian colleague Guarinonius... (more...)

A History of Theatre in Spain
by Maria M. Delgado
Released on Cambridge University Press on 3/1/12

Leading theatre historians and practitioners map a theatrical history that moves from the religious tropes of Medieval Iberia to the postmodern practices of twenty-first-century Spain. Considering work across the different languages of Spain, from vernacular Latin to Catalan, Galician and Basque, this history engages with the work of actors and directors, designers and publishers, agents and impre... (more...)

Reflections
by Paul Roberts
Released on Amadeus on 3/1/12

The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colorful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it - how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences, to explore the background, influences, and impulses behind... (more...)

The Scarlet Libretto
by DAVID MASON
Released on Red Hen Press on 3/1/12

Words for Lori Laitman�s opera, The Scarlet Letter Based on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne Award-winning poet and librettist David Mason, author of Ludlow and other books, has given new life in verse to Hawthorne�s classic novel. By distilling the book�s narrative line and adding a charged lyricism of his own, Mason has created another magnificent work in his ongoing poetic portrait of Ame... (more...)

Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy
by Edward T. Potter
Released on Camden House on 3/1/12

J. C. Gottsched, who reformed early Enlightenment German theater, claimed for comedy the ability to transform morality. The new literary comedies of the 1740s, among the other moral goals that they pursued, propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting marriage based on love while devaluing its traditional socioeconomic foundations. Yet in comedies by well-known dramatists of the period such a... (more...)

More Short & Sweet Skits for Student Actors
by Maggie Scriven
Released on Meriwether Pub on 3/1/12

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Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television
by Gale
Released on Gale on 3/2/12

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Working in Groups
by Isa N. Engleberg, Dianna R. Wynn
Released on Prentice Hall on 3/4/12

Updated in its 6th edition, Working in Groups provides readers with practical strategies, built on theory and research, for communicating and working successfully in groups. The authors use the guiding principle of balance while looking at both how groups work and how to work in groups. This accessible and user-friendly text gives readers the tools to apply group communication theories, methods, ... (more...)

A Purple Summer: Notes of the Lyrics of Spring Awakening
by Steven Sater
Released on Applause Theatre & Cinema Books on 3/6/12

In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Fruhlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater came home and began writing the first lyric of Spring Awakening: "Mama Who Bore Me" - a lyric which still stands, verbatim, just as he first wrote... (more...)

A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening
by Steven Sater
Released on Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group on 3/13/12

Spring Awakening, a groundbreaking and multi-award winning show, is being produced all over the United States as well as in 28 countries around the world. Now, 13 years after Steven Sater first conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind�s notorious symbolist drama Fr�hlings Erwachen, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books publishes Sater�s notes on his famously evocative,... (more...)

French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic
by Richard Hillman
Released on Manchester University Press on 3/13/12

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An Actress Prepares
by Rosemary Malague
Released on Routledge on 3/14/12

"I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging." Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter "Theatre people of any gender will be transformed by Rose Malague�s eye-opening study An Actress Prepares. Women performers have long needed thi... (more...)

Long Ago and Far Away
by David Ives
Released on L a Theatre Works on 3/15/12

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Man of the Moment
by Alan Ayckbourn
Released on L a Theatre Works on 3/15/12

A convicted thief endears himself to the British public. He becomes a media pundit, living in luxury, tended by managers and courted by TV directors. Then a meeting is arranged after 14 years between this ex-thug and the bank clerk who "had a go". Ayckbourn's previous plays include "Way Upstream".... (more...)

Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
Released on University of Wisconsin Press on 3/15/12

Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies. The story of the mythological king, who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother, has resonated in world culture for almost 2,500 years. But Sophocles� drama as originally performed was much more than a great story�it remains a superb poetic script and exciting theatrical experience, now faithfully brought to life in this English transl... (more...)

Othello and Interpretive Traditions
by Edward Pechter
Released on University Of Iowa Press on 3/15/12

During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in ... (more...)

Before the Rehearsal Begins
by Irina Brown
Released on Methuen Drama on 3/15/12

The work of an outstanding Georgian theatre director and teacher Mikhail Tumanishvili (1921-1996) was first published in Georgia in 1976 and is now made available for the first time in an English translation. Before the Rehearsal Begins is a precise and demanding exploration of the director's creative process. The book is richly illustrated with diagrams and drawings sketched by the author and... (more...)

The Hole in the Top of the World
by Fay Weldon
Released on L a Theatre Works on 3/15/12

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A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance
by John O'Connor and Katharine Goodland
Released on Palgrave Macmillan on 3/27/12

A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance three volume setcontains detailed listings of all major English-language productions of Shakespeare plays on stage and screen from 1970 to the early twenty-first century in the UK, Canada and the USA.... (more...)