Theatre: individual actors & directors books

Features interviews with some of the 20th century's most celebrated practitioners of the performing arts. This title...  Read More >>

Distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages...  Read More >>

This is a terric true story of actors at work and Shakespeare in performance.  Read More >>

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Helps readers follow their favourite stars through the years, in photos that capture their style and transforming...  Read More >>

Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness's plays...  Read More >>

Explores the life and career of actress, author, and feminist Clara Morris. This book reveals how Morris, even after...  Read More >>

During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly...  Read More >>

In Search of Jerusalem is a personal testament of everything the outspoken writer, film, television and theatre...  Read More >>

"Presents a compilation of information and images focusing on Bernhardt's films and twenty early wax-cylinder and...  Read More >>

Part of the series Routledge Performance Practitioners , this book presents an overview of key phases in Robert...  Read More >>

Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a...  Read More >>

A unique collection of essays on the cultural role of performing women on stage and on screen, throughout history...  Read More >>

Stanislavsky and Female Actors is the exploration of Stanislavsky's artistic and personal relationship with the...  Read More >>

(And what does that even mean?) Here, Alda listens in on things he's heard himself saying at critical points in...  Read More >>

Autobiographical work by one of British theatre's most celebrated practitioners, Peter Gill.  Read More >>

"The Stanislavski ""system"" is still the only comprehensive method of actor training we posses. This text traces...  Read More >>

"Although already an accomplished artist, Vasili Toporkov was forced to retrain as an actor under Stanislavski's...  Read More >>

"Between 1935 and 1938, Stanislavski did his final work in Moscow with a group of 11 young actors and directors...  Read More >>

Offers an analysis of Boris Karloff's life and career. This work incorporates criticism, production information,...  Read More >>

At a time when serious plays dominated the stages, Lillian Russell was one of the first to popularize musical theater....  Read More >>

The extremely enjoyable autobiography of Swanseas all-round entertainer: performer, actor, pantomime dame, radio...  Read More >>

Examines the history and actual premises of Stanislavsky's 'System', separating myth from fact with forensic skill....  Read More >>