Terry has been a director and teacher for more than 40 years!

The book is filled with anecdotes about people you will recognize

Terry has directed on Broadway, Off Broadway, regionally, and abroad

The book recounts so many productions teaching what to do and what to avoid

Terry was honored by the Mayor of New York City for his life’s work in teaching acting.

The book is so easy to read that you’ll not ever think it is really a textbook for producers

And these are just a few reasons.  For more information visit nytesmallpress or go directly to amazon.com’s kindle store to download the book.

NYTE Small Press is proud to announce the publication of Terry Schreiber’s book PRODUCING ON A SHORT SHOELACE as an ebook available on amazon’s kindle store.  It’s just $9.99 and chock full of wise advice, anecdotes and the story of 40 years of indie theater.

Terry Schreiber is a noted theater producer, director, acting teacher, and founder of the prestigious T. Schreiber Studio in New York City. This book should be required reading for anyone looking to make a career in theatre. 

More detailed information can be found on the NYTE Small Press website.

If they are done with college and possibly pursuing a theatrical career in any manner, our books offer hundreds of monologues for auditions or scene work – tailored to the individual taste of the reader.

And now that we have branched out into ebooks, there is even more choice.  Check out our books and those available on kindle and nook and give a thoughtful gift to your favorite graduate.

That’s only three of the eight plays. The other five are well worth your checking out – Fault Lines by Rebecca Louise Miller and Post Modern Living by Richard Sheinmel and Clay Zambo PLUS Manuel Igrejas’ Hassan and Sylvia and West Lethargy by Stephen Kaliski  — and don’t forget Floradita, My Love by Javierantionio Gonzalez. 

Each and everyone is a great read – and an ever greater production. And so many ways to buy the book.

More information about what’s in the book can be found on our website NYTE Small Press.  Go to the Kindle store on amazon.com to get a look at the ebook version.  You can download a sample – you get to read the Introduction and part of the first play. 

Let me know what you think of this newest collection of work by emerging playwrights.  We are very pleased.

With each new book, we have continued to sell copies of the older ones until they became out of print.  But it seems people still know about the out of print books and request them.  Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium has been out of print for over five years and yet we still get requests.  The same is true for all the books. Reprinting as a paper book is expensive.  And now with ebooks growing in popularity by leaps and bounds, we can satisfy everyone.  And it is working.

Publishing for Amazon’s kindle and for Barnes & Noble’s nook allows readers to pick their favorite online bookseller.  It still amazes me that, once you click ‘buy’ you have the book open to read within seconds.

The books are less expensive – they are formatted specially for each of these readers.  Don’t have a reader? Download a myriad of free apps to be able to read on your mobile phone, pc, mac, laptop, tablet, etc.

Try one of our books on Amazon:  Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium, Plays and Playwrights 2003

or check out Barnes & Noble: Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium, Plays and Playwrights 2003

And watch for news about the next e-book release.

Plays and Playwrights 2003 proved to be a big success as a print book. So big that it is no longer available.  But you can still get the same book at a lower price and with the knowledge that you have saved a couple of trees by buying the ebook version. We have worked very hard to be sure the quality is as good as in the original.

If you would like to learn more about the book, check out the introduction by editor Martin Denton on our website (it’s a free pdf download).

Hope many of you will check out our other ebook – Plays and Playwrights for the New Millennium – the e-book is also available on amazon and on Barnes & Noble.

Do let me know your thoughts.

The book is identical to the printed version, although we did update all the bios. This anthology is chock full of 11 plays, all worthy of new productions (and most of them have had lots of those).  These are authors you have come to know with the works published here and with more recent ones many have contributed.

A fast run-through of the book:

• Joe Godfrey’s A Queer Carol –  This great take-off on Dickens’ Christmas perennial has had at least one production every year across the country.
• Catherine Gillet’s Pumpkins for Smallpox – a short, moving 9/11 play.
• Andrea Lepcio’s Looking for the Pony – since we published this one-act she has revamped it into a full length play.
• Ato Essandoh’s Black Thang – true love battles stereotypes that still exist; recently we’ve gotten lots of interest in this play.
• Edward Musto’s The Ninth Circle – Reagan would be 100 this year and his landslide election is the backdrop for this play.
• Nat Colley’s The Doctor of Rome – The Merchant of Venice was a big hit recently on Broadway; here’s the sequel all set to put up.
• Marc Morales’ Galaxy Video – a hoot when it was written, still hilarious even though the video store is apt to disappear.
• Leon Chase’s The Last Carburetor – dysfunctional families are always in style on the stage and here’s one of the greatest you’ll encounter.
• Joseph Langham’s Out to Lunch – who can resist an absurdist farce especially one about two losers.
• Maggio Cino’s Ascending Bodily – a solo play that is timeless, just find an actress as good as Maggie to do it.
• Kelly McAllister’s Last Call – a moving comic drama that’s as pertinent today as when it was originally done.

And the renowned playwright and critic, Mario Fratti, wrote the Foreword.

Of course Kirk Wood Bromley doesn’t tend to write short plays, so he submitted part of the first scene of a very recent play he called untitled which ran during the 2009 season.   Gary Rudoren submitted the opening scenes of the screen play he’s been working on based on So I Killed a Few People… (Never published a screenplay before and it’s most interesting to see how he’s changed it, but still kept it the same.)

Garth Wingfield, David Dannenfelser, Lynn Marie Macy, and Edmund De Santis all had new 10 minute plays we could use.  And how interesting and unique each is.  Garth’s play, Story Time, is an up-to-date play with an acerbic wit and a bit of sarcasm. It’s a novel way a young teacher reads to her kindergarten class. David gives us a play called An Otherwise Empty Room (Manhattan).  What a great time a director would have with this – there’s no dialogue. Lynn Marie gives us a comedy about prom time, with a mother and daughter who don’t really get on.  It’s called Wracked and takes place in a department store dressing room.  And Eddie’s Sebresque takes us on a fantasy journey to a desert landscape you’ve never seen before.

Check out these new short plays and the original plays, also,  at amazon’s kindle or barnes and noble nook.

There seems to be a group that feels e-books are unnecessary and a waste of time.  In my head I liken this group to those who felt the electric typewriter was not really an advancement. (It really was – those little fingers flying across the keys on the old underwood, could really soar effortlessly and more accurately once you plugged it in.)

I have noticed that many of the people debunking e-books have not really  read one. 

Why not give this new advance in publishing a try?  It’s the easiest way to buy a book; you can even glance at some of the material before you commit. It’s certainly not expensive. 

Log on to any e-book stores such as amazon’s kindle or b&n’s nook.  Notice the free apps on the sidebar for your PC or mobile device.  Download one of those.  You do not need to buy a special device such as a kindle or nook to read e-books!

In the kindle and nook e-book stores you’ll generally find a downloadable free sample of books like ours.   Click on that and get a chance to look at what you’ll be getting.  If you already have an account you can purchase and have the book within seconds.  Setting up an account is quick and easy.

Give it a try.  And let me know what you think.