Two of the top female producers in New York, Roberta Pereira (“Mothers and Sons”) and Brisa Trinchero (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) formed Dress Circle Publishing, the only book publishing company dedicated specifically to Broadway. Along with such behind-the-scenes nonfiction hits as Seth Rudetsky’s “Broadway Diary” and Jennifer Ashley Tepper’s “The Untold Stories of Broadway” Vol. 1 and 2, Dress Circle released “Starstruck” July 14, the third installment in its Broadway Trilogy series from author Ruby Preston.
How did Dress Circle Publishing come about?Roberta Pereira: We’re both theater lovers but also book lovers, and we were wondering if there are other people like us out there who would love to have books about theater. We commissioned [from Ruby Preston] a book, “Showbiz,” which was essentially “The Devil Wears Prada” in the world of Broadway. It did so well that when we launched the second book in the series, “Staged,” we formed the company. Our mission is to publish Broadway books by members of the Broadway community. And what we really want to do is give
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