Theatre: individual actors & directors books

Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and...  Read More >>

Michael Wilson addresses the recent rise of storytelling as a professional performance art by providing a critical...  Read More >>

This book will appeal to all interested in the theatre, photography and fine books As the total print-run for the...  Read More >>

It is a life marked by occasional hard-fought successes and routine helpings of ritual humiliation: scout hut Gilbert...  Read More >>

A unique collection of interviews with Sir Michael Gambon, ranging over thirteen years, offering a fascinating picture...  Read More >>

MICHAEL GAMBON: A LIFE IN ACTING  Read More >>

The authorised biography of one of the greatest actors of the 20th century.  Read More >>

Examines the careers, talents, and styles of three women who were acknowledged, each in her time, as the greatest...  Read More >>

A Who's Who of British acting, stage and screen.  Read More >>

A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting...  Read More >>

This title, filled with anecdote, recreates the lives and times of playwrights and actors, and the world in which...  Read More >>

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Vastly entertaining autobiographical account of two journeys: one all over the world with an eccentric one-man show,...  Read More >>

This book is the authorised and fully documented history of the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne's fifty-year career in...  Read More >>

In this work, Ria Mooney receives the notice she deserves as one of Ireland's most significant theatrical artists...  Read More >>

This volume includes scripts and essays about performances of the lives of women such as Gertrude Stein, Georgia...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, historians of art, literature, dress and theatre examine the impact...  Read More >>

Pesach'ke Burstein, an old trouper from the Yiddish theatre, recalls dramas both onstage and off in this memoir,...  Read More >>

Bernhardt's first American theatrical tour, from her arrival in 1880 to her return to Europe in 1881, is chronicled...  Read More >>

JOHN GIELGUD - THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY  Read More >>

Although almost neglected in research and studies on American Literature, the American Musical is certainly the...  Read More >>

A chronicle of the life of John E. Owens. It covers his childhood; apprenticeship with William Burton; his early...  Read More >>

This work examines the Welsh acting tradition. Although lacking a metropolitan centre, a culture developed in which...  Read More >>

This collection of essays examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers and...  Read More >>

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