The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. – Piet Mondrain - Artist

An Actor Prepares

By Constantin Stanislavski

My Life In Art

By Constantin Stanislavski

Stanislavski and America

An Anthology From the Tulane Drama Review

To The Actor

By Michael Chekhov

Theatre in the Twentieth Century

An Anthology Edited By Robert W. Corrigan

The Impossible Theateer (A Manifesto)

By Herbert Blau

The Fervent Years

By Harold Clurman

Tragedy and Comedy

By Walter Kerr

The Artist’s Way

By Julia Cameron

Any (if not all) of the following playwrites:
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Niccolò Machiavelli
Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin
Jean Racine
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Victor Hugo
Aleksandr Pushkin
Henrik Ibsen
August Strindberg
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
Anton Chekhov
James Barrie
Luigi Pirandello
Somerset Maugham
Thornton Wilder
Sean O'Casey
Bertolt Brecht
Jean Cocteau
Elmer Rice
Antonin Artaud
Philip Barry
Federico García Lorca
Noel Coward
Christopher Isherwood
Lillian Hellman
Jean Paul Sartre
Samuel Beckett
Clifford Odets
Jean Anouilh
Tennessee Williams
Eugène Ionesco
William Inge
Dylan Thomas
Arthur Miller
Neil Simon
Edward Albee
John Osborne
Harold Pinter
Václav Havel
Tom Stoppard
Sam Shepard
August Wilson
David Mamet
David Hare
Tony Kushner

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