The Season by William Goldman

A Candid Look at Broadway

A sharp, insider account that follows a single Broadway season, tracing the fortunes of productions, producers, playwrights, actors and critics while exposing the patchwork of commerce, ego and artistry that shapes what succeeds or fails onstage; blending vivid profiles, backstage anecdotes and trenchant analysis, the book illuminates how decisions about money, ambition and taste determine the life of plays and the theater world as a whole.

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