The Stuff of Dreams

By Leah Hager Cohen,

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Book description

Provides a poignant portrait of a small Massachusettes community theater in its seventy-fifth year of operation, as it becomes embroiled in disputes over proposed structural changes and its auditions for it most controversial play to date, M. Butterfly. Reprint.


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1 author picked The Stuff of Dreams as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Leah Hager Cohen's writing makes me want to write. I loved her beautiful descriptions of the small-town theater, the comments on how theater asks us to do what we spend our lives trying not to do: be vulnerable, show our raw emotions. I am not a theater person at all--I know next to nothing about it--but I cared about these real people and it made me think about all the drama and heartache in any group--a book club, running club, writing organization. We bring such hope and longing to these things that we devout our after work hours to....

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