Exits and Entrances

New Book Provides Behind-the-Scenes Look at 25 years Off-Broadway, Opera at

LaScala, and Lyons including the Kennedy and Lincoln Centers as well as International
Productions

For anyone who has ever dreamed of directing plays or staging operas, this
book is a must-read. Mr.Quinn has worked with first class writers and opera
conductors including luminous names such as Frank McCourt and Claudio
Abbado. Daniel P. Quinn has documented his agonies and ecstasies in the
world of the arts while making his dreams a reality.
Davidson Garrett, author of King Lear of the Taxi

MONTCLAIR, N.J. In his new memoir, Exits and Entrances: Producing Off-Broadway,
Opera & Beyond: 1981-2006 (published by AuthorHouse), Daniel P. Quinn takes readers on a
guided tour of his prolific career as an actor, director and producer through a series of
journalistic snapshots in a scrapbook of theatrical adventures.
Lively articles, letters and other documents MERGE into a personal narrative, Exits and
Entrances constructs a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the challenges and successes Quinn
experienced as he managed to create 25 years of working off-Broadway and beyond.
Exits and Entrances includes articles that originally appeared in Performing Arts Journal, The
Herald News, The Italian Tribune, Sensations Magazine, Theatre Journal and the Audiophile
Voice among others. Published letters from The New York Times, photographs and production
documents such as posters are reproduced as well.
Quinns career has spanned the productions of such notable shows as the U.S. premieres of
Stone, Derek and other works by British playwright Edward Bond, the world premieres of Sacco
& Vanzetti by Daniel Gabriel, Away Alone by Janet Noble, and Two and Twenty by Paul Parente,
and revivals of The Women of Trachis by Sophocles, and works by Seneca, John Maguire (1877),
the controversial Black Jesus Passion Play in 1997 and 1998, and composers such as Stephen
Foster, Hanns Eisler, Louis Morreau Gottschalk, Kurt Weill and Hector Berlioz. Quinn received
The Short Play Festival Award for his work as producer on Two and Twenty, and The Irish
Institute Award for Honesty Is the Best Policy. Diary of a Madman received a Best Actor OBIE
as well.
Quinn is also the author of organized labor: Collected Poems (published by AuthorHouse),
which achieved notable coverage on National Public Radio, The Village Voice, The Coast Star,
The Bergen Record, and The Italian Voice. The poems in organized labor have been called
poignant and alive, wonderful, and refreshing.
 Quinn has also appeared on The Today Show, ABC News, NBC News, at the Torriano Caf
in London and the White House Poets Caf in Limerick, Ireland. His articles on opera and
classical music have appeared in numerous publications, including National Public Radio in
Southampton, NY and L'Italico.