Novels with a theatric theme

In Honor of the Teen Library Crew who are working so hard with Stacey to put on their annual teen play and puppet show this summer, I've come up with a list of books that take place in or around a theater or stage performance. Enjoy!

Will Grayson/Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan - two boys, both named Will Grayson, discover each other and this leads to changes in both their lives. One of the Wills begins dating the best friend of the other Will, while Tiny writes and produces the most hilarious high-school musical ever!

Eyes like Stars by Lisa Mantchev - Bertie strives to save the Theater Illuminata, but Ariel and the other spirits trapped there are willing to destroy her only home in their struggle to be free.

Wicked Will by Bailey MacDonald - disguised as a boy in 1675, a girl called Viola and a boy named Will Shakespeare perform with her uncle's strolling players in Stratford-on-Avon. But when Farmer Speight turns up dead, Uncle Matt is blamed, and the young players must solve the mystery before he is tried and convicted.

Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding - Cat has grown up at the Drury Lane Theater, an orphan raised by all the stage crew. But when she overhears that a Diamond has been hidden there, she sets out to solve the mystery - and make surprising new friends.

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors - Mimi is the granddaughter of a famous actress, but her stage fright (and teen heartthrob Troy) makes her life miserable. When, by some mysterious magic, she and her leading man end up going back in time to Shakespeare's Verona, Mimi decides that her new role is to be Juliet's savior.

The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It by Lisa Shanahan -

Fourteen-year-old Gemma Stone struggles to understand her shifting emotions as her older sister plans her wedding, she overcomes her nerves and tries out for the school play, and she gets to know one of the most notorious boys in her class.