Living Theatre

John Tytell

• Paperback | Biography and Autobiography
• A history of America's most influential avant-garde theatre ensemble, and a biography of its two founders and lead performers, Julian Beck and Judith ... Lees meer

Coward, the Playwright

John Lahr, J Lahr

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• In five dexterously argued chapters, John Lahr investigates all the major plays and many of Nel Coward's lesser-known pieces." Lees meer

David Mamet

Ira Bruce Nadel

• Hardcover | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• David Mamet has been described as the greatest living American playwright of his generation. Detailing Mamet's ideas on writing, acting and directing,... Lees meer

Remembering Arthur Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with 'Arthur Miller Remembers', an interview with the ... Lees meer

Broadway Jeeves?

Martin Jarvis

• Hardcover | Biography and Autobiography
• In 2001, Martin Jarvis played the eponymous role in the American production of Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Wodehouse adaptation, ... Lees meer

Shakespeare the Poet and His Plays

Stanley Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-g... Lees meer

Costantin Stanislavski

Constantin Stanislavski

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• In this volume, Stanislavski recalls his theatrical career, from his early experiences in Rubinstein's Russian Musical Society to his final triumphs w... Lees meer

Double ACT

Tom Stoppard

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• Tom Stoppard is one of the foremost writers of his generation; a giant of the English stage whose intellectual puzzles are box-office magic and whose ... Lees meer

Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?

Anatoly Smelyansky

• Hardcover | Biography and Autobiography
• Anatoly Smelyansky has constructed a portrait of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov is seen as a pariah of Soviet Russia, fighting for his work and... Lees meer

Grinning at the Edge

Paul Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• One of Britain's most popular playwrights, Alan Ayckbourn is also the most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays and has worked with some ... Lees meer

The Craft of Theatre: Seminars and Discussions in Brechtian Theatre

Ekkehard Schall

• Hardcover | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• Ekkehard Schall's life was devoted to the theatre. In this autobiographical memoir, he offers a lifetime of experience, expertise and memories of work... Lees meer

John Gielgud

Jonathan Croall

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the tw... Lees meer

Future Indefinite

Noël Coward

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• The definitive account, in his own words, of one of the most popular figures in British theatre. The second and concluding volume of Noël Coward's leg... Lees meer

Threads of Time

Peter Etc Brook

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• An autobiography of Peter Brook charting his career of over fifty years in theatrical direction from major post-war productions, through a radicalisat... Lees meer

The lives of Lucian Freud

William Feaver

• Hardcover | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Over many years, Freud narrated to... Lees meer

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life

Stephen Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's m... Lees meer

There Are No Secrets

Peter Etc Brook

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• Peter Brook is the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essays he returns to the concept of his first book The Emp... Lees meer

The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011

William Feaver

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
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Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur

Paul Elsam

• Hardcover | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• A 1967 obituary in The Times labelled Stephen Joseph 'the most successful missionary to work in the English theatre since the second world war'. This ... Lees meer

Meyerhold

Edward (Professor of Drama Braun

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• Vsevolod Meyerhold began his career in theatre as an actor with the Moscow Art Theatre, and after a spell in the remote provinces he returned to Mosco... Lees meer

Engineers of the Imagination

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• "Welfare State International are brilliant at making an audience of strangers into a community" (Guardian) Since its foundation by John Fox in 1968, W... Lees meer

Connecting Flights

Remy Charest

• Hardcover | Biography and Autobiography
• In these interviews, the French-Canadian stage director and writer, Robert Lepage, explores the sources of his creative inspiration and the ideas that... Lees meer

Woza Shakespeare

Greg Doran

• Hardcover | Biography and Autobiography
• An account of Anthony Sher and Gregory Doran's experiences producing Titus Andronicus for Johannesburg's Market Thearte. It provides an insight into h... Lees meer

The Worst It Can Be Is a Disaster

Braham Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Biography and Autobiography
• The Worst It Can Be is a Disaster is the autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated i... Lees meer