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A small-town policeman scrambles to conceal bribery and other misdeeds from a visiting official in Gogol's masterpiece of dramatic satire....

Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy. Centering on a dinner party, held...

A masterpiece of Russian drama. Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian middle-class provincial life....

A Director's Guide to Stanislavsky's Active Analysis describes Active Analysis, the innovative rehearsal method Stanislavsky formulated in his final...

The Stanislavski "system" is still the only comprehensive method ofactor training we posses. This text traces the growth of the...

At the age of 23, childhood actor Ray V. Mann is ripped from his seat and thrown overboard into the...

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier....

Vera (1880) by Oscar Wilde is a tragic play that is bound to touch your heart. The story revolves around...

Leo Tolstoy had a profound influence on people through out the Western world. Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist,...

From the bestselling author that brought us An Actor Prepares, a treatise on the subject of realism in acting, by...

New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in...

Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much more than that....

From the golden age of Russian theater: The Inspector General by Gogol; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; Gorky's The Lower Depths;...

Tennessee Williams freely adapts Anton Chekhov's Russian classic "The Seagull". From the master twentieth-century playwright Tennessee Williams-an adaptation......

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1836 and we are now republishing it with a brand...

In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes,...

This adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph FiennesThis is a drama of...

All three of Gogol's most satirical plays are translated in this collection by Stephen Mulrine, who also includes a complete...

Set in 1916, three young women from the Scottish Women's Hospital are sent to the Russian front to support the...

This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here...