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- ↑ "Production of The Art of Success | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- 1 2 "The Art of Success" at Internet Off-Broadway Database
- ↑ Dear, Nick (11 October 2018). The Hogarth Plays: The Art of Success & The Taste of the Town. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571350179 – via Google Books.
