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Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
By David Ball
Southern Illinois University Press
The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre
By Katie Mitchell
Routledge
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Broadway Licensing Global
https://broadwaylicensing.com/
For musicals. Part of a trio of license holders.
Concord Theatricals
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/
Also includes Samuel French, Tams-Witmark, and other rights holders in their catalog. For plays and musicals.
Dramatic Publishing
https://www.dramaticpublishing.com/
For plays and musicals.
Dramatists Play Services
For plays. Part of a trio of license holders.
Music Theatre International
For musicals only.
New Play Exchange
For new and newer works.
Playscripts
For plays geared for student, youth, and community theatres.
Part of a trio of license holders.
A starting point for your search for public domain plays and more.
IMSLP Pertrucci Music Library
Ohio Wesleyan University’s Professor’s Picks
https://library.owu.edu/playsinthepublicdomain
Pima Community College’s List
https://libguides.pima.edu/c.php?g=198451&p=1303907
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/642
SUNY Oswego’s Library List
https://libraryguides.oswego.edu/c.php?g=191465&p=2916143
Theatre Haus’ Public Domain Picks
https://www.theatrehaus.com/2021/08/20-scripts-now-in-the-public-domain/
Improv Encyclopedia
https://improvencyclopedia.org/games/
Exercises, games, warmups, and icebreakers, for improv and theatre alike
Viola Spolin
https://spolin.com/?page_id=10
Games for the rehearsal space developed by Viola Spolin
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
Book by Augusto Boal, focusing on games and exercises based on Boal's theories of Theatre of the Oppressed