(five stars) Kaluta shows how to pull off a fine production, May 18, 2004

Reviewer: Midwest Book Review

John Kaluta's The Perfect Stage Crew: The Compleat Technical Guide for High School, College, and Community Theater considers budgets and the means for creating professional-quality stage productions on a limited set of resources. Kaluta shows how to pull off a fine production in less than forty days on almost any budget, and covers everything from organizing and storing backstage supplies, to building sets, to testing lighting, to operating sound equipment. This technical guide is confidently recommended for any involved in theatre at the high school, college or community levels.

The Perfect Stage Crew is theater's newest and best reference for crew sponsors and technical directors; available from the publisher, Allworth Press, or at Amazon.com.