Holiday Gift Ideas For the Actor, Director, or Theatre Lover

One of the best the­ater book­shops in the New York City is The Drama Book­shop, and each year they pub­lish a list of great hol­i­day gift ideas for the actor, and I’m repro­duc­ing them here:

The New Pro­fes­sional in the Busi­ness: Give the new pro­fes­sional actor a book on the busi­ness to help star the New Year off right with tips and inside infor­ma­tion on how the busi­ness really works!

The Direc­tor: These two new books are great for both the aspir­ing and accom­plished direc­tor alike.

The Actor: Give aspir­ing actors a book on tech­nique that will stay with them for a long time. These clas­sics will be a great addi­tion to any thespian’s library.

The Writer: There are tons of oppor­tu­ni­ties for aspir­ing writ­ers. Help bud­ding writ­ers per­fect the craft and dis­cover many places to sub­mit work.

The His­tory Buff: Enjoy the newest books about the­atri­cal history.

The Musi­cal The­atre Enthu­si­ast: Here are some of our favorites of 2009.

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At The Drama Book­store, you’ll find plays, libretti, thes­pian biogra­phies and tomes on act­ing tech­nique, but also guides to writ­ing screen­plays, and scripts of cur­rent films.

You can keep cur­rent with their indus­try events by either sign­ing up for their newslet­ter, fol­low­ing them on the Drama Book­store New York City Blog, or join their Drama Book­store face­book page.

As an exam­ple of one of their indus­try events, here’s a video of Emmy win­ning actress Louise Shaf­fer from RYAN’S HOPE, THE EDGE OF NIGHT, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW and sev­eral other soaps is now a suc­cess­ful nov­el­ist. On Thurs­day, July 2 she hosted “An Evening with Louise Shaf­fer” at the Drama Book Shop in New York City. Among the atten­dees at the event were for soap star Audrey Lan­ders and for­mer soap writer Juliet Law Packer:

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