It is a sure sign of summer when the stack of books, bought with excitement and waiting on one's desk for time to read them, moves into the active reading environment.  My first one completed is Sharon Mabry's excellent The Performing Life published in 2012.  In her preface she said that that she did not want to write a "dry, academic book that would sit on the shelf", and indeed she did not do that.  It is a useful book filled with anecdotes and good advice.  I think I'm going to order a cou...
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