Stage Writers Handbook: A Complete Business Guide for Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Librettists
Author: Dana Singer
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ISBN: 1559361166
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group (February, 1997)
Sales Rank: 73,192
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Must Have
Although one reviewer here bitterly insists that you must "know someone" in order to be published or produced, this is far from the case...as my own career attests! I was a complete newbie and managed to get published on the first try (and got reasonable pay, too). But back to the book. It is invaluable. Period.
Here you'll learn everything you need to know about copyright, contracts, publishing and producing, and much, much more. If you want to be a working writer for the stage, you're gonna need this book. :)
Rating: 5 out of 5
Exceptional and very helpful
I just found this book to be very concise and very helpful. It broke down every aspect and is an excelllent resource to go back to. I jus tbelieve that now Dana needs to provide another edition since things have changed so much with the internet so we know what is and is not acceptable as far as submitting and using the internet for specific deals. I got the book 5 years ago and am still finding that I use it.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Sometimes it helps to have a lawyer
...This is not a book about playwriting, nor is it that much help to a playwright who is trying to get his/her work noticed. Yes, there is a section about marketing and promotion, but the writer here is a lawyer and this book is strongest when it deals directly with the many legal quandries a playwright can get into. I have already consulted it numerous times in regards to copyright issues and what were my rights going into a production. That said, I do find it curious that, while she has a large section dealing with various legal issues between a director and a playwright, she has left out entirely any discussion of problems a playwright may have with Actors Equity. How could, for example, future productions be encumbered if you allow an Equity production to go forward? That question wasn't answered, but many others were and for that I find this book to be invaluable.
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