Theatre Studies books

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Voice-Over Voice Actor is an in-depth look at the world of voice acting, and it is chock-full of hints, tips, tricks,...  Read More >>

Abattoir Ferme is a theatre collective based in Mechelen, Belgium and was founded in 1999. The company's early work...  Read More >>

As a major contribution to the field of postgraduate activity in drama, theatre, and performance, this resource...  Read More >>

Alan Ayckbourn was a young actor when an accidental remark led him into the world of playwriting. During rehearsal,...  Read More >>

Instability marked the life of August Strindberg. One of eleven children - only seven survived to adulthood - Strindberg's...  Read More >>

Arthur Schnitzler's most famous play, La Ronde, was published in 1903, but then censored in Vienna and Germany....  Read More >>

In 1904, Frank Wedekind nearly landed himself in jail. His play, Pandora's Box, was confiscated by the authorities...  Read More >>

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In 1960, August Wilson ended his formal education when he dropped out of high school after his teacher accused him...  Read More >>

With the TV lighting up his living room, Arthur Miller watched his director friend, Elia Kazan, identify fellow...  Read More >>

In 1850, Henrik Ibsen arrived in Christiania (now Oslo), hoping to begin his university education. Yet something...  Read More >>

In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O'Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium. There,...  Read More >>

After a meeting with Pope Pius IX, Oscar Wilde locked himself in his room emerging only after writing a sonnet inspired...  Read More >>

The optimistic George Bernard Shaw watched happily as the steely modern world made its debut. Shaw hoped that World...  Read More >>

A young Tennessee Williams listened as the doctor diagnosed him with diphtheria, a disease that kept him housebound...  Read More >>

A child, Lorraine Hansberry was in the front yard of her new home, located in an all-white neighborhood, when a...  Read More >>

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-seven year-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father...  Read More >>

After twenty-one-year-old Edward Albee flunked out of college, he came home drunk and packed his bags, intending...  Read More >>

As a schoolboy, Anton Chekhov stole into the local theater at night, dressed as his father, and marveled at the...  Read More >>

In 1587, when William Shakespeare was twenty-three, the acting troupe Queen's Men played in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon...  Read More >>

A thirty-five-year-old Aeschylus enlisted in the Athenian army and fought in the battle of Marathon (490 BCE) and...  Read More >>

According to legend, on the day of the greatest naval battle of the Persian wars, when Athens finally defeated the...  Read More >>

Noel Coward was a child when he saw an advertisement in the Daily Mirror calling on a talented boy of attractive...  Read More >>