Description: Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's comprehensive and definitive Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night and Beyond.
With this book, Tony Award-winning Peter Lawrence has turned his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the art and business of production stage managing and successfully pursuing a stage manager's career.
Written for a wide range of readers from the beginning stage manager with high school or college experience to the professional assistant stage manager already working in commercial theatre Production Stage Management for Broadway is, at its heart, an invaluable map of how to get from the beginning through the end of a production.
Review Quotes: At last. This is the book stage managers and theatre lovers everywhere have been waiting for. Written by one of the greatest stage managers of our time, it is informative, wise, humorous and real. Peter Lawrence's book will definitely be required reading at UNC School of the Arts. -- Frank Lombardi "Director of Stage Management Program, University of North Carolina School of the Arts"