“A practical handbook [and] a bible for aspiring actors.”—The New York Times

“Audition is absolutely indispensable to any aspiring or even mildly ambitious actor. There is no book of which I am aware that gives such first-rate, clear-cut, no-nonsense advice.”—Bob Fosse

“What a book! What an achievement! Audition is the only book ever written that makes the reader understand the theatre.”—Joshua Logan

“Immensely useful . . . A distillation of broad how-to-do-it wisdom.”—Variety

“The subject matter is surprisingly universal (everybody has to audition for something sometime) and the inside tales are terrific. . . . What Stanislavsky was to acting, Michael Shurtleff is to auditioning.”—New York Post

“Extraordinary . . . No actor will want to be without it.”—Estelle Parsons


“An education—in theatre savvy, in self-knowledge.”—Publishers Weekly