Craft Books: Musical Theater5
Beating Broadway: How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing OvationsSteve Cuden
How Musicals Work: And How to Write Your OwnJulian Woolford
The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are BuiltJack Viertel
Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical LibrettoLehman Engel
Writing the Broadway MusicalAaron Frankel
Craft Books: Playwriting and Story4
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master StorytellerJohn Truby
The Playwright’s Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic WritingStuart Spencer
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever NeedBlake Snyder
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of ScreenwritingRobert McKee
Development Histories14
Aladdin: A Whole New World – The Road to Broadway and BeyondMichael Lassell
But He Doesn’t Know the TerritoryMeredith Willson
Dear Evan Hansen: Through the WindowSteven Levenson, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Finishing the HatStephen Sondheim
Hamilton: The RevolutionJeremy McCarter
In the Heights: Finding HomeLin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes & Jeremy McCarter
Look, I Made a HatStephen Sondheim
The Making of a Musical: Fiddler on the RoofRichard Altman & Mervyn Kaufman
The Making of CabaretKeith Garebian
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812: The Journey of a New Musical to BroadwaySteven Suskin (ed.)
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with GeorgeJames Lapine
Second Act Trouble: Behind the Scenes at Broadway’s Big Musical BombsSteven Suskin
Wicked: The GrimmerieDavid Cote
Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HadestownAnaïs Mitchell
Scripts/Librettos/Other Source Material13
AppropriateBranden Jacobs-Jenkins
Caroline, or ChangeTony Kushner & Jeanine Tesori
EnglishSanaz Toossi
Eureka DayJonathan Spector
FalsettosWilliam Finn & James Lapine
Gutenberg! The Musical!Scott Brown & Anthony King
HamletWilliam Shakespeare
The Heidi Chronicles and Other PlaysWendy Wasserstein
IndecentPaula Vogel
LiberationBess Wohl
“Rashōmon” and “In a Bamboo Grove”Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls PlayJocelyn Bioh
Urinetown: The MusicalGreg Kotis & Mark Hollmann
Essays5
“40 Questions About a Political Play”Dan O’Brien
“Breaking the Rules”Marsha Norman
“Can Playwriting Be Taught?”Marsha Norman
The New American Musical: An Anthology from the End of the CenturyWiley Hausam (ed.)
“On Playwriting”Marsha Norman
Biographies and Autobiographies4
Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to WickedCarol de Gere
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an ArtistDaniel Pollack-Pelzner
Musical Stages: An AutobiographyRichard Rodgers
Theater Kid: A Broadway MemoirJeffrey Seller
Live Performances11
The Connector
Days of Wine and Roses
Hadestown
Hamilton
John Proctor Is the Villain
Maybe Happy Ending
Mexodus
Operation Mincemeat
Oratorio for Living Things
Ragtime
Six
Film and TV54
1776
Adaptation
Beat Street
The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
Blue Moon
Brigadoon
Bye Bye Birdie
Cabaret
Carmen Jones
Carousel
Chicago
David
Dear Evan Hansen
Evita
Fame
Fiddler on the Roof
Glengarry Glen Ross
Godspell
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Greatest Showman
Gypsy
Hair
Hairspray
In the Heights
Into the Woods
Jesus Christ Superstar
The King and I
Kiss of the Spider Woman
La La Land
The Last Five Years
Les Misérables
A Little Night Music
Mamma Mia!
Meet Me in St. Louis
Merrily We Roll Along
The Music Man
My Fair Lady
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Next to Normal
Oklahoma!
Original Cast Album: Co-op
Original Cast Album: Company
The Phantom of the Opera
Pippin
The Producers
Rent
Schmigadoon!
Show Boat
Suffs
Sunday in the Park with George
tick, tick… BOOM!
Waitress
West Side Story
The Wizard of Oz
YouTube and Podcast Channels12
The Art of Storytelling
Behind the Curtain
The Drama Book Show
How to Playwright
Howard Ho
Into the Hoods
Jorge Rivera-Herrans
Loving You: The Untold Sondheim
The Playbill Podcast
Rick Beato
Scriptnotes
Wait in the Wings