Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's comprehensive and definitive Production Stage Management for Broadway: From Idea to Opening Night and Beyond.
With this book, Tony Award-winning Peter Lawrence has turned his decades of experience on Broadway into a thoroughly modern approach to the art and business of production stage managing and successfully pursuing a stage manager's career.
Written for a wide range of readers from the beginning stage manager with high school or college experience to the professional assistant stage manager already working in commercial theatre Production Stage Management for Broadway is, at its heart, an invaluable map of how to get from the beginning through the end of a production.
Peter Lawrence is a stage manager with more than 40 years of experience in commercial theatre. Working as a production stage manager, he originated over 25 Broadway productions, including Spamalot, Hurlyburly, Sunset Boulevard, Shrek The Musical, and five plays by Neil Simon. In addition to Broadway, he has worked in off-Broadway, stock, regional, and dinner theatre, as well as on national tours. He is the first stage manager ever to have been honored by the Tony Awards, and is a recipient of the Del Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stage Managers' Association.