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Digital Music Now Available:

Don't Forget Us: A Chekhovian Song Cycle
(new digital album)
Concept album for score by Permanent Moves members Shane Chapman and Julia Sirna-Frest. Shane Chapman, Julia Sirna-Frest, Chris Giarmo, Jessie Shelton, Karl Blau, and Starr Busby.

Books Now Available:

Affective Memories: How Chance and the Theater Saved My Life
(Sunbury Press, Inc. - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Autobiography by Laurence Luckinbill. "This is the riveting, brutally honest story of a man’s struggle to make something of himself in the theater. Coming from meager circumstances in the Ozark Mountains, he fights his way up the shaky ladder toward fame. He makes mistakes, goes down blind alleys, fails and succeeds, again and again. But he never quits." 480 pages.

The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script
(Cambridge Univ Press - new Hardcover Book)
James L. W. West III and Anne Margaret Daniel, editors. Script for Owen Davis' adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The show played the Ambassador Theatre in 1926. Photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews. 150 pages. [Appears to be shipping ahead of schedule.]

The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway
(Palgrave Macmillan - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Maria Szasz. History of the multi-award winning Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre Company, from its beginning in 1988 to its thirty-fifth season in 2023. Considers how the Irish Rep's plays and musicals reflect the Irish diaspora, the relationship between Ireland and America, and what it means to be Irish and Irish American, both historically, and in the twenty-first century. 185 pages. [Appears to be shipping ahead of schedule.]

The Tony Awards: A Celebration of Excellence in Theatre
(Black Dog & Leventhal - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Coffee table book by Eila Mell and The American Theatre Wing. Foreword by Audra McDonald. Commemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with never-before told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre Wing's archives, and more than 100 interviews with past and present Tony winners, including actors, producers, writers, and costume designers. 400+ color and black-and-white photographs. 320 pages.

Newly Listed Recordings:

May 10:

Pulman & Stilgoe: A Couple of Swells
(new digital album)
Based on Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe's live act. "Steppin' Out With My Baby," "Harmony," "People Will Say We're in Love/If I Loved You," "That Was Then," "I Had Myself a True Love," "Mountain Greenery," "Close Your Eyes," "The Folks Who Live On the Hill," "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring," "Some Other Time."

May 29:

Lempicka
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new digital album)
OBC recording of score by Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer. Eden Espinosa, George Abud, Amber Iman, Natalie Joy Johnson, Zoe Glick, Nathaniel Stampley, and Beth Leavel. CD to be released 7/5/24.

May 31:

My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert
(Concord Recordings - new on 2 CDs/Digital)
Live Concert recording. Released at the time of the condensed version of the filmed concert premiere on PBS "Great Performances." Cast includes Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Friedman, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St. Louis, Aaron Tveit, Marisha Wallace, Patrick Wilson. 40-piece Rodgers & Hammerstein Concert Orchestra conducted by music supervisor Simon Lee. 42 tracks.

Newly Listed Books:

April 29:

Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production
(Focal Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Brídín Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin. "investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional theatrical production in the United States and explores labor practices that are equitable, accessible, and sustainable." 352 pages.

May 9:

An Actor Convalescing in Devon
(Faber & Faber - Kindle Edition)
Play by Richard Nelson, which opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in March 2024.

June 3:

Mike Bartlett
(Routledge - Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By William C. Boles. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists series editors Maggie Gale and Graham Saunders. Includes Barlett's plays Cock, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, and Albion, a biographical introductory chapter, and new interviews with Bartlett and some of his closest and oft relied upon collaborators. 186 pages.

September 24:

Suffs
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Libretto for musical by Shaina Taub. 144 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.