Theatre: Individual Actors & Directors

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...

Black Theater Is Black Life fills a critical gap in the history of African American culture in Chicago. Through interviews with prominent producers...

In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in...

While much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remai...

The Lux Video Theatre was the longest-running radio drama program ever broadcast. Starting in 1934 the show usually featured a one-hour adaptati...

The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance artists from the past three decad...

A stunning backstage photographic study of Mark Rylance and the cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.