Joe Papp, the impresario whose idea of free Shakespeare revolutionized New York City theatre, was the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theatre. Los Angeles Times journalist Kenneth Turan interviewed nearly 160 actors, directors and others to create this magnificent oral history of the man whose made theater in America both accessible and essential.

The first comprehensive biography of Pultizer-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Horton Foote, whose Orphans’ Home Cycle is currently dazzling audiences at the Signature Theatre. In the new tome by New York Times critic Wilborn Hampton, Horton Foote: America’s Storyteller is the story of an artist who refused to compromise his talents for the sake of fame or money, or just to keep working -- who insisted on writing what he regarded as truth, even when for many years almost no one would listen.

Gerard Alessandrini skewered the Great White Way for over thirty years with Forbidden Broadway, a spoof-fest which now holds the record as the longest-running revue in the world. Filled with dozens of outrageous pictures from the production and parody lyrics to over 100 songs, this is one of the most fun-filled books ever created about theatre, a one-of-a-kind "mockument" that every showbiz aficionado will treasure.

When did you first catch the theatre “bug?” This expansively titled volume features witty, enlightening, delightful essays from twenty-five of today’s most prominent playwrights, many of whom are Off-Broadway veterans, including Edward Albee, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Christopher Durang, Suzan-Lori Parks and many, many more.