Ghost light : an introductory handbook for dramaturgy / Michael Mark Chemers.

Philosophy. What the #$%@ is a dramaturg? Asking questions
What kind of person becomes a dramaturg?
Forking paths and ghost lights
Historicizing dramaturgy
Origins
Dramaturgy in history
Exercises
Power plays
Drama as dialectic
Theory capsules
Exercises
Analysis. The twelve-step program for script analysts
The steps
Exercises
Form follows function
Comedy
Ovidian (episodic)
Diffused crisis
Exercises
Why this play now? doing preliminary research (and a web warning!)
Writing a production history
Writing a performance review
Exercises
Practice
New plays
Working with playwrights: forging an alliance
Maintaining boundaries
Devised theatre
Documentary theatre
Adaptation
Exercises
The company
Working with the artistic director
Mission statements
Representation in rehearsal
Season selection
Creating a dossier
Working with the director
Working with designers
Working with actors
Sidebar: rehearsal etiquette and protocols
Table work
Exercises
Audiences
The front line
Publicity
Education
Program notes
Lobby displays
Preshows and postshow talkbacks
Blogs
Exercises.