Stage writers handbook : a complete business guide for playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists

The first comprehensive guide to the business of writing for today's stage. Dana Singer, Associate Director of America's foremost playwrights'association, the Dramatists Guild, gathers all the information and ideas stage writers need to conduct their careers in a businesslike manner, with all the protections the law provides. Includes chapters devoted to copyright, self-promotion, representation, production contracts, publishing and licensing agreements, underlying rights and collaboration. "Written in a straightforward manner, with complicated matters clearly explained, Stage Writers Handbook is truly a work no writer for the stage can afford to be without. Here, for the first time, Dana Singer gathers the information and ideas stage writers need to conduct their careers in a businesslike manner, with all the protections the law provides"--Jacket