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Explains Shakespeare's works by putting them into the context of the Elizabethan times in which he lived.

Outlines the myriad responsibilities that fall on a theater producer, from booking rehearsal space to selling ads for programs and lining up ushers and tickets sellers.

This book lays out the skills needed to write a play, and how lines and scenes can be altered during rehearsals.

Students can read about all the tasks that a director needs to do, and what demands will be placed on a director during the lifetime of the show.

"The first part "Shorts" consists of a nine short plays, offering roles for actors from the teens to the fifties. ... The second part "Briefs" consists of brief principles of playwriting, intended for students of theater, new or established playwrights who would like to explore the short play genre. Topics include producible short plays, the short play versus a sketch or scene, the difference between playwriting and stenography, a character's vocabulary, why dialogue isn't talking, treating emotion like sweat, filling up the trunk, formatting the manuscript, revising, participating with the rehearsal process, things to avoid, play submissions, surviving showbiz, and knowing theater vocabulary"--Amazon.com.

Strawberry Shortcake and her friends put on a berry special play for the Berrykins.

A reader's theater script about Theodore Roosevelt, known as Teedie when he was a boy, who was sick with very bad asthma and the doctors did not know how to treat it, everyone expected Teedie to die young, but with hard work and determination, he overcame his sickness and became the President of the United States.

Twenty-eight short plays based on the works of Hans Christian Andersen, the brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and other well-known tales and stories.

On cover: A comprehensive guide to the most frequently performed plays.