The remarkable untold story of Shakespeare's first theatre - the playhouse before the Globe. In 1576, in a muddy field in Shoreditch, James Burbage erected London's first purpose-built commercial playhouse. A place of high culture and quick profit,...

An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature. The French dance criticism of the Russian emigre Andre Levinson (1887-1933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, historica...

A revelatory look at the complex inner world of one of the twentieth century's most beloved theatrical composers. Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) was a towering figure in American musical theater. Celebrated for such iconic Broadway shows as Company, S...

The 2024 winner of the Yale Drama Series After one night together in the desert, Grace uproots their life to chase after Brahm, a person who is slowly becoming a cactus. Not known for having a green thumb, Grace tends to Brahm and the seeds of thei...

A legendary choreographer's personal and practical guide to the art of dance-making. Yvonne Rainer was a founding member of Judson Dance Theater, a 1960s New York artists' collective that championed ordinary, spare movements and spontaneity. Rainer...

The remarkable untold story of Shakespeare's first theatre - the playhouse before the Globe. In 1576, in a muddy field in Shoreditch, James Burbage erected London's first purpose-built commercial playhouse. A place of high culture and quick profit,...

The sixteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, a big-hearted evocation of queer intimacy set in a bathhouse at the end of the world. In this love letter to queer bathhouse culture, the Presenter, a Mexican-American public-speaking student, is thrust...

An insider's spirited history of Yale Repertory Theatre. In this serious and entertaining chronicle of the first fifty years of Yale Repertory Theatre, award-winning dramaturg James Magruder shows how dozens of theater artists have played their par...

A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture. You know his work - "Show Boat, Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "The King and I". But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the...

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the p...