Books like Audition by Michael Shurtleff

A practical guide to Sanford Meisner’s acting technique, illustrated through fifteen months of classroom work with eight men and eight women, culminating in polished scenes from contemporary plays.

Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with Harold Prince, Bernard Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as an accomplished actor herself. In this highly informative and accessible book, Merlin provides everything the actor needs to achieve self-confidence and artistic honesty--from the most basic practical tips to an in-depth framework for preparing a part. Filled with advice from the most esteemed people in the business, such as James Lapine, Nora Ephron, and Stephen Sondheim, and charged with tremendous wisdom and compassion, this indispensable resource will arm the reader to face an actor's greatest challenge: getting the part.From the Trade Paperback edition.

A practical guide to Uta Hagen’s influential acting techniques, featuring her famed Object Exercises and lessons in sense memory, identity, and substitution.

"Text by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training."

Peter Brooks speaks of the theater of the past and the present, of its changes, of its various forms, of what he has seen and sees and of his own work.