TCG PUBLICATIONS CATALOG TCG BOOKS 53RD STATE PRESS AURORA METRO BOOKS CHANCE MAGAZINE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER PUBLICATIONS NICK HERN BOOKS OBERON BOOKS PADUA PLAYWRIGHTS PRESS PAJ PUBLICATIONS PLAYSCRIPTS, INC. PLAYWRIGHTS CANADA PRESS UBU REPERTORY THEATER PUBLICATIONS For over 50 years, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, has existed to strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre. TCG’s constituency has grown from a handful of groundbreaking theatres to nearly 700 member theatres and affiliate organizations and more than 12,000 individuals nationwide. TCG offers its members networking and knowledge-building opportunities through conferences, events, research and communications; awards grants, approximately $2 million per year, to theatre companies and individual artists; advocates on the federal level; and serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute, connecting its constituents to the global theatre community. TCG is North America’s largest independent publisher of dramatic literature, with 13 Pulitzer Prizes for Best Play on the TCG booklist. It also publishes the award-winning AMERICAN THEATRE magazine and ARTSEARCH®, the essential source for a career in the arts. In all of its endeavors, TCG seeks to increase the organizational efficiency of its member theatres, cultivate and celebrate the artistic talent and achievements of the field and promote a larger public understanding of, and appreciation for, the theatre. For more information, visit www.tcg.org. 2-21 TCG Books is the largest trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America with a booklist that includes 13 Pulitzer Prize winners. TCG Books has published the works of more than 250 playwrights and other theatre professionals in single volumes and anthologies, and sold over 3 million books. 22-23 53rd State Press publishes new plays and performance texts that interrogate, challenge, renew and emblazon the language of performance co-edited by Karinne Keithley Syers and Antje Oegel. Working on a small, sustainable model, and functioning as part of the creative community, we publish writing for performance that particularly tends toward new directions in the theatrical imagination of language. 24-27 Aurora Metro is an independent publisher of award-winning drama and theatre books. With an acclaimed list of plays for young people as well as many collections of plays by women, the company also publishes fiction with a recent focus on young adult fiction in translation. 2011 saw the launch of a new imprint, Supernova Books, publishing non-fiction titles that explore the arts in innovative ways—film, music, art, fashion, architecture—giving voice to creative talent that may be ignored by the mainstream media. 28 ARTSEARCH® 29 Chance Magazine is a photography magazine that looks at the world through the lens of theatre and design. Designed with passion and meticulous perfection, Chance is an elegant serialized art-book about the most compelling, contemporary events in design. 29 The League of Professional Theatre Women is a not-for-profit advocacy organization whose mission is to promote visibility and increase opportunities for women in the professional theatre and to address problems of insufficient recognition of the important contribution of all professional theatre women to the American theatre. 30-31 The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center’s mission is to bridge the gap between academia and the professional performing arts communities both within the United States and internationally. The Center publishes three highly regarded academic journals, as well as books, including plays in translation, translated and edited by leading scholars. 32-49 Nick Hern Books is one of the UK’s leading theatre publishers and performing rights agents, with an extensive list of theatre books and plays. Authors include Simon Callow, Declan Donnellan, Richard Eyre and Harriet Walter; and playwrights such as Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, Conor McPherson and Enda Walsh. 50-73 Oberon Books is one of the UK’s leading independent publishers specializing in drama and the performing arts. Oberon publishes over 1,000 books including the latest modern plays and classics from some of the world’s leading dramatists, as well as a wide range of titles covering the theatre, opera, dance, biography and practical study guides. 74 Padua Playwrights is devoted to extending and deepening the influence of the 60s-era New York Off-Off Broadway movement, when European theatrical influences merged with a jazz-inspired, American sensibility to produce a new brand of transformative theatre. 75-77 PAJ Publications has published more than 1000 plays/performance texts and ground-breaking essays in more than 150 books since its founding in 1976. The triannual PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art charts new directions in performance, dance, video, installations, drama and music. 78-79 Playscripts, Inc. is an independent publisher of new plays and musicals. Playscripts licenses amateur and professional productions, publishes standard acting editions, binder books, collections and eScripts. On the Playscripts website, visitors can search for plays that fit specific criteria, read lengthy script samples for free and purchase books and performance rights. 80-89 Playwrights Canada Press is the largest publisher of Canadian drama. For over twenty-five years the Press has been publishing the work appearing on Canadian stages including award-winning plays by Daniel MacIvor, Judith Thompson and Sky Gilbert among others. 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