Theatre: Individual Actors & Directors

Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud''s late visual work, all reproduced in color. Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)-stage and fil...

Robert Lepage has imposed himself in the past three decades as a Wunderkind of contemporary theatre, with eagerly awaited and widely acclaimed prod...

A memoir of theatrical life and much more by Tim Pigott-Smith, one of the best known and most prodigiously talented actors of his generation. From...

At six years old Carmen Aguirre was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to ...

In 1982, rising actor and recent Royal Shakespeare Company arrival Antony Sher played the Fool to Michael Gambon''s King in the RSC''s production o...

First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's 'Tanztheater', critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic metho...

Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of theatrical expression. This collection of 15 intervi...

Mustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy by comparing the playwright's characters with those of Chekhov's drama and drawing...

A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors...

David Weston has spent a lifetime acting in Shakespeare's plays, and has been directed by Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and Simon Croft. Chosen as Ian Mc...

In Rose Eichenbaum's latest book on the confluence of art making and human expression, she sits down with thirty-five modern day storytellersthe di...

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, his older brother Edwin was devastated. A leading stage star, Edwin Booth thought hi...

[A]n enthralling autobiography. Publishers Weekly Sensational. Jimmy Cagney A woman ahead of her time, Florence James revolutionized American theat...

This is the ultimate book on the extraordinary life and work of Franco Zeffirelli, produced with the full co-operation of the director and his fami...

For Ellen Terry, actress-manager Lena Ashwell (1869-1957) was 'a passionate voice'. From her first appearance on stage in 1891 to the end of her l...

Star of Bedroom Farce and Glengarry Glen Ross, Derek Newark acted in the very first episode of Doctor Who. From the army to RADA to the National Th...

Leslie O'Dell's current research focuses on the psychology of acting and the phenomenology of creativity. She has worked in theatre and film as a d...

An award-winning actor on screen and stage (The Defiant Ones, The African Queen, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof), an activis...

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

The voice traverses Beckett''s work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside ...

Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days. Some were 19th century stage idols who reprised famous roles on film as...

Between 2014 and 2016, Quarantine produced the first iteration of Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., an epic quartet comprising three live performanc...

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

This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramat...

Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him ...

Rise above!: Letters from Tyrone Guthrie details the life of the celebrated theatrical director whose influence on international theatre lives on. ...

This unique book contains the never before published script of the first ever one-woman show, written by Fanny Kelly. The script was performed in B...

Buster Keaton can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, wrote criti...

Edward Alleyn was a man of many talents and great energy. He was the actor who created the roles of Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus, and Barabas, the Jew o...

Agnes Moorehead (1900-74) was unique among twentieth-century American actresses in making a major career for herself in all four entertainment medi...

Immersive theater calls upon audience members to become participants, actors and others. It traditionally offers binary roles--that of oppressor...