Based on interviews with over forty award-winning artists, How to Rehearse a Play offers multiple solutions to the challenges that directors face from first rehearsal to opening night. The book provides a wealth of information on how to run a rehearsal room, suggesting different paths and encouraging directors to shape their own process. It is divided into four How to Rehearse a Play is the perfect guide for any artist leading their first rehearsal, heading to graduate school for intense study, or just looking for ways to refresh and reinvigorate their artistry.
Kiely focuses far too much on practices that align with his own for this to be a real survey; he pretends to be interested in stuff like beginning with blocking but is clearly not. Which is fine, but at the same time his desire to do a survey means he doesn't really go deep enough into anything, even the things he actually practices. Dissapointing, especially in comparison to , but contains some good tidbits.