Theresa Rebeck�� career has hopscotched between the Off-Broadway successes of plays such as Spike Heels, The Family of Mann, and View of the Dome, to award��winning work writing and producing
network television such as NYPD Blue, to writing screenplays for independent and studio features. This writer�� guide is both a discussion of the writer�� craft and a no-holds-barred discussion
of the politics in the movie, television, and theater worlds. Rebeck writes, ��omeone once asked me, ��hat advice would you give to young writers who wanted to go into show business?��And I
answered, almost without thinking, ��ell all of them to go back and reread Machiavelli.���� In a series of hilarious and provocative discussions covering all aspects of dramatic writing, Rebeck
attempts to address what she considers both of a writer�� primary concerns ��how to tell a story with truth and vision and how to maneuver as a dramatic writer in a dangerous world.
