New York Theater Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
New York Theater on XJonathan Mandell, Journalist and theater critic.

The Emperor Jones
Eugene O'NeillWoodcuts of Paul Robeson in The Emperor Jones, 1926, by Eugene O’Neill, created by Harlem aetiat Aaron Douglas. #Whitney
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$14.35 + Free shipping10% off
Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre
Derek McLaneDesigning Broadway: How Derek McLane And Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre https://t.co/rg81dZxYE9
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leopoldstadt
Tom Stoppard"Leopoldstadt" is Tom Stoppard's generous act of theater, as I put it in my review. Its relative popularity deserves to be treated with a similar generous spirit by the theater community. @Leopoldstadtbwy https://t.co/2iSaOZ7jtp https://t.co/7GVNhZRLMI
Paperback, 2020
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun https://t.co/GELZTl9PDm
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$8.95Member price:$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
Sarah RuhlExciting @SignatureTheatr 2022-2023 season (dates TVA): an adaptation of Quiara Alegría Hudes memoir My Broken Language Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise Letters from Max by Sarah Ruhl Grass by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins https://t.co/kShxAbwYQm
Paperback, 2019
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Live and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 3: The Civil War
Frederick Douglass“Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors,” Frederick Douglass said in 1871 at the monument to the unknown dead of the Civil War on what is now Memorial Day https://t.co/vbRO7yUjOD
Paperback, 2020
$24.99Member price:$22.49 + Free shipping10% off
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta LynnRIP country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn, 90. Well, I was borned a coal miner's daughter In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor but we had love That's the one thing that daddy made sure of He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar https://t.co/v15WEwJQZc https://t.co/dq7LEJlKRQ
Paperback, 2021
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia WoolfAnother exciting-sounding new season at @signatureinnyc January: @domorisseau's "Sunset Baby," ex political prisoner meets daughter April: Taylor Mac stars in Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" Dave Malloy’s Three Houses, "a Post-Pandemic Open Mic Night" https://t.co/SEZME3uW0G
Paperback, 1973
$13.99Member price:$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Unprotected: A Memoir
Billy PorterBook Review: Unprotected a Memoir by Billy Porter https://t.co/Fuq1JlCd4B https://t.co/KB1pmINUoC
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
Nancy SchoenbergerBlanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation https://t.co/4QROZOekOb
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