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The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists

Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights.

Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories...

Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 2f Winner of Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Script Flyovers is a 90-minute play about a film critic who finds himself caught up in a Culture Clash of economics, sex and long-submerged resentment when he returns to the small Ohio town where he grew up. Trying to make peace with his past, he reconnects with some former classmates, a bully and a girl he had a crush on. The encounters are unsettling for all three; nothing turns out as expected. It's 1998 and the economic troubles that will later engulf the rest of the country are offering a preview of coming...

In The Dramatist's Toolkit, playwright and Backstage columnist Jeff Sweet offers an intensive and practical guide to being a working playwright. In this informative guide, Sweet discusses such matters as:

• The building blocks of playwriting
• How characters relate to one another
• The differences and similarities between musicals and plays
• Screenwriting vs. playwriting
• and much more

Jeff Sweet offers guidance for the beginning playwright and advice for the seasoned professional.

To celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of the best yearly reference book for all matters theatrical, this edition includes the following special features: listing of the 750 best plays of the last 75 years; an illustrated reminiscence by Al Hirshfeld of the best plays in his 60-year career; and articles by Peter Stone and Otis Guernsey on the continuing evolution of musical theatre.