Theatre: individual actors & directors books

Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) is best known for his plays that have famously been adapted into opera...  Read More >>

The origin and essence of the Western mime are examined in the first part of the book. Traceable to the masked roleplaying...  Read More >>

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Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection...  Read More >>

Fifteen chapters explaining every aspect, with excerpts from classic and prominent modern works, quotations from...  Read More >>

Ria Mooney was a pioneer in the theatre, the first woman to serve as the resident producer of the National Theatre...  Read More >>

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A self-help manual for those addicted to directing in the theatre.  Read More >>

From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided...  Read More >>

This book describes the ""glory years"" of Ira Aldridge's first Continental tour, during which he won more awards...  Read More >>

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays...  Read More >>

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Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with...  Read More >>

The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance...  Read More >>

Through interviews with prominent producers, directors, choreographers, designers, dancers, and actors, Young and...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of the American actress Sandy Dennis (1937-1992). Winner of two successive Tony Awards...  Read More >>

Full of illuminating anecdotes and witty accounts, this is the first English translation of Chekhov's two-volume...  Read More >>

This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of...  Read More >>

"""Harold Rome was a composer-lyricist on Broadway from 1937, starting with Pins and Needles, a revue for the ILGWU....  Read More >>

This collection of essays provides international perspectives on the full range of Barker's achievements, theatrical...  Read More >>

"""This first book-length monograph on Terrence McNally shows how McNally's decades in the theater have both deepened...  Read More >>

This book reveals the genuity of Shaw's totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters,...  Read More >>