- Dramatic technique, by George Pierce Baker
- How I did it, establishing a playwriting career, edited by Lawrence Harbison ; foreword by Theresa Rebeck
- To be a playwright, Janet Neipris
- Técnica para escribir una pieza de teatro, Juan Rivera Saavedra
- A primer of playwriting, Kenneth Macgowan
- Moment work, Tectonic Theater Project's process of devising theater, Mois?s Kaufman, Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris, Kelli Simpkins, Jimmy Maize, Scott Barrow
- Dramatic theory and practice in France, 1690-1808
- Act division in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, 1583-1616
- Making plays, interviews with contemporary British dramatists and their directors, introduced, interviewed, and edited by Duncan Wu
- The understructure of writing for film & television, Ben Brady & Lance Lee
- Backwards and forwards, a technical manual for reading plays, David Ball
- The thirty-six dramatic situations, [by] Georges Polti; translated by Lucile Ray
- The aesthetics of failure, dynamic structure in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, by Zander Brietzke
- The architecture of drama, plot, character, theme, genre, and style, David Letwin, Joe Stockdale, Robin Stockdale
- Badass acting, best acting practices for fun or fame, Tice Allison
- The art of dramatic writing:, its basis in the creative interpretation of human motives., with an introd. by Gilbert Miller
- Technique of the drama;, an exposition of dramatic composition and art., An authorized translation from the 6th German ed. by Elias J. MacEwan
- Prologues to Shakespeare's theatre, performance and liminality in early modern drama, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann
- Acting Shakespeare's language, Andy Hinds
- The dramatic art of Athol Fugard, from South Africa to the world, Albert Wertheim
- Playwright at work
- Unmasking theatre design, a designer's guide to finding inspiration and cultivating creativity, Lynne Porter
- A master class in dramatic writing, theater, film, and television, Janet Neipris
- Character, the art of role and cast design for page, stage, and screen, Robert McKee
- The architecture of story, a technical guide for the dramatic writer, Will Dunne
- Dramatic adventures in rhetoric, a guide for actors, directors and playwrights, Giles Taylor & Philip Wilson
- The practical Shakespeare, the plays in practice and on the page, Colin Butler
- The playwright's muse /, edited by Joan Herrington
- The playwright's guidebook, Stuart Spencer
- Speaking on stage, interviews with contemporary American playwrights, edited with introductions by Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman
- Electra and the empty urn, metatheater and role playing in Sophocles, Mark Ringer
- New pointers on playwriting,, by Josefina Niggli
- The 30-minute Shakespeare anthology, based on the plays of William Shakespeare, abridged and edited by Nick Newlin
- The performer's guide to the collaborative process, Sheila Kerrigan
- Shakespeare's plots;, a study in dramatic construction,, by William H. Fleming
- Hamburg dramaturgy, by G. E. Lessing ; with a new introduction by Victor Lange
- The human nature of playwriting
- Manual del actor, Andr?s Vicente
- How to write a play,, by St. John Ervine
- The Playwright's art, conversations with contemporary American dramatists, edited by Jackson R. Bryer
- The anatomy of drama
- Creating compelling characters for film, TV, theatre and radio, Rib Davis
- Shakespeare's advice to the players, Peter Hall
- The art of the playwright, creating the magic of theatre, William Packard
- Shakespeare's dramatic genres, Lawrence Danson
- Getting your acts together, by Frank V. Priore
- Shakespeare as a dramatic artist, a popular illustration of the principles of scientific criticism, by Richard G. Moulton
- Solving your script, tools and techniques for the playwright, Jeffrey Sweet