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Plays & scenes

Divine Fire- Eight Contemporary Plays Inspired By The Greeks (Caridad Svich, Ruth Margraff)
The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2000 (Bob Jude Ferrante)
The Best Stage Scenes of 2000 (Bob Jude Ferrante)
The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1999 (Bob Jude Ferrante)
The Best Stage Scenes of 1999 (Bob Jude Ferrante)

The Best Stage Scenes of 1998 (Rachel Rubin Ladutke)
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1998 (Rachel Rubin Ladutke)
The Best Stage Scenes of 1997 (Bob Jude Ferrante)
The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 1996 (Bob Jude Ferrante)
The Best Stage Scenes of 1996 (Bob Jude Ferrante)
The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1996 (Bob Jude Ferrante)

Other writing

Cinematherapy - The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood by Beverly West and Nancy Peske
Cocktail Nation by Beverly West and Kim Doi (NYPD Alliance member)

play writing:

mechanics & theory

The Art & Craft of Play Writing by Jeffrey Hatcher
The Power of the Playwright's Vision by Gordon Farrell
The Dramatist’s Toolkit by Jeffrey Sweet
Solving Your Script: Tools & Techniques for the Playwright by Jeffrey Sweet
Working on a New Play - A Play Development Handbook by Edward M. Cohen
Backwards and Forwards - A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
Playwriting Master Class by Michael Wright
Playwriting in Process - Thinking and Working Theatrically by Michael Wright
The Playwright's Process by Buzz McLaughlin
The Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life by Gary Garrison
The Art & Craft of Playwriting by Jeffrey Hatcher
The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri 
Making Musicals by Tom Jones

business

Dramatists Sourcebook 2002-2003 by Kathy Sova (Editor), Tim Cusick (Editor), Gretchen Van Lente (Editor)
Stage Writers Handbook - A Complete Business Guide by Dana Singer

play
scripts:

Plays and Playwrights 2004 Martin Denton, ed.
Plays and Playwrights 2003 Martin Denton, ed.
Plays and Playwrights 2002 Martin Denton, ed.
Plays and Playwrights 2001 Martin Denton, ed.
The Credeaux Canvas by Keith Bunin
Closer by Patrick Marber
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Tiny Alice by Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (Editor), Ralph Manheim (Editor)
The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, Richard Winston, Clara Winston (Translator)
Angels in America - Part 1 - Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Plays Two - Fanshen, a Map of the World, Saigon, the Bay at Nice, the Secret Rapture by David Hare

general writing:

The Power Process, an NLP Approach to Writing by Dixie Elise Hickman
How to Get Happily Published by Judith Appelbaum

screen writing:

Screenplay by Syd Field
Story by Robert McKee
The Whole Picture: Strategies for Screenwriting Success in the New Hollywood by Richard Walter
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Which Lie Did I Tell? - More Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Fade In: The Screenwriting Process by Robert Berman
Screenwriting - The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television by Richard Walter

directing:

The Empty Space by Peter Brook
On Directing by Harold Clurman
Directors on Directing by Toby Cole and Helen Chinoy
The Director's Voice - Twenty-One Interviews by Arthur Bartow
A Sense of Direction - Some Observations on the Art of Directing by William Ball
Fundamentals of Play Directing by Alexander Dean & Lawrence Carra
Play Directing - Analysis, Communication, and Style by Francis Hodge
Meyerhold at Work by Paul Schmidt (Editor), Ilya Levin (Translator)

acting:

Actors on Acting by Toby Cole (Editor), Helen Krich Chinoy (Contributor), Patrick Sheehan (Editor)
Improvisation for the Theater by Viola Spolin
The Presence of the Actor by Joseph Chaikin
An Actor Prepares  by Konstantin Stanislavsky
Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavsky
Creating a Role by Konstantin Stanislavsky
Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner

theatre production:

From Option to Opening - A Guide to Producing Plays Off-Broadway by Donald C. Farber
Producing Theatre - A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide by Donald C. Farber
The Season - A Candid Look at Broadway by William Goldman
Theatre Management and Production in America by Stephen Langley

theatre history:

She Also Wrote Plays by Susan Croft
The Fervent Years - The Group Theatre and the Thirties by Harold Clurman, Stella Adler (Introduction)
Bentley on Brecht by Eric Bentley
American Avant-Garde Theatre by Arnold Aronson
British Theatre Since the War by Dominic Shellard

theatre bios:

Joe Papp - An American Life by Helen Epstein
The Living Theatre - Art, Exile, and Outrage by John Tytell
Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner
My Life in Art by Konstantin Stanislavsky

Videos & DVDs:

Sunday in the Park with George by James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim
Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore)
A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller)

Arts Administration:

Don't Just Applaud-Send Money!- The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the Arts by Alvin H. Reiss
Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations by Karen Brooks Hopkins, Carolyn Stolper Friedman

Other terrific books:

Spindrift, a novel by Stuart Sheppard