For more than 30 years, The American Theatre Wing has produced the Working in the Theatre seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. Now in book form for the first time, it contains a range of these seminars, with a concentration on the most recent shows and current stars, the information, anecdotes, gossip (yes!), heartaches and triumphs.We learn: What a career in the theatre is really about, from inspiration to a Tony or Pulitzer Prize? How actors prepare? What actors have found to be the best techniques? How writers get their work staged? And how playwrights and cast interact with the director?