Theatre: Individual Actors & Directors

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...

Mary Nolan (1905-1948), also known as Imogene Bubbles Wilson, was the subject of two infamous court cases--one with Frank Tinney and the other w...

''A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands'' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant c...

In this candid and empowering A to Z of being an actor, Julie Hesmondhalgh draws on her decades of experience on stage and screen including in mas...

Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid th...

This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering ever...

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize 2023 The director Peter Dews prophesied: Youll be alright when youre forty, and even ...

Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American theater, pushing actors a...

Skillfully written and complemented with photos, this biography is the first to honor British actress-manager Lena Ashwell. In a rapidly changing w...

David Rothenberg's multilayered life thrust him into Broadway's brightest lights prison riots political campaigns civil rights sit-ins and a Ce...

Stand. Breathe. Look. Try to empty my mind. Somehow, for some reason, I have been brought to this place to tell this story, now. So tell it. Thats ...

Do You Mind If I Smoke? tells the story of Fenella Fielding''s remarkable 65-year career in theatre, radio, TV and film. Best known for her 1960s ...

Since his successful spell running the National Theatre, Richard Eyres career as a director of film, theatre and opera has made him a leading cultu...

Life in the theatre is often a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows. The author'...

Fierce Love is a compelling and candid biography of Cork-born theatre pioneer (1918-2006) Mary OMalley, founder-director of Belfasts Lyric Players ...

Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s a...

Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest r...

The Incomparable Hildegarde (1906-2005) began her career as a pianist in Milwaukee's silent movie theaters, which led to the Vaudeville stage. B...

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through t...

As the Kremlins crackdown on freedom of expression continues to tighten, Russian playwrights and directors are using documentary theatre to create ...

An invaluable guide to the difficult arts of devising plays and directing texts, by one of the UKs leading theatre directors. Throughout a lifetim...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating det...

Kantor's exceptional versatility translated into him successfully establishing his multiple guises as painter, stage-director and stage-designer, d...

The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also has another claim to fame as the ac...

A sweeping Hollywood biography of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh based on new research, including exclusiv...

Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himsel...

Since the 1970s, Swiss artist Manon has been confronting observers with their own vision. Her performances raise question about the boundary betwee...

When Simon Cadell announced to the world that he may have only days to live, it signalled the end of a twenty-year stage career that had just seen ...

A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.A New York Times bes...

The popular myth is that there was nothing of any worth in the mid-century British theatre until 1956, when John Osborne and the Angry Young Men at...