Good Company - a Memoir / Mostly Theatrical
Mostly Theatrical
$18.99
Theatre & Dance & Music Biography - Theatre Autobiography
Hamlet and the Baker's Son - My Life in Theatre and Politics
Augusto Boal
Routledge
"He is the inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system and 'Theatre of the Oppressed', including Image Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Rainbow of Desire and Legislative Theatre. He travels the ...
$49.99
Naked Thoughts That Roam About
John McGrath
Nick Hern Books
John McGrath spent his whole life campaigning for a popular theatre that was politically engaged, entertaining and relevant. He campaigned as a writer, a director and as a producer and most famously founded...
$24.99
Diaries of Peter Pears 1936-78
Peter Pears & Philip Reed
Boydell & Brewer
Travel diaries reveal musical inspiration, personal memoirs, and notes on perfomance - 16 b/w illustrations - 272 pages
$34.95
Broadway Sound - The Autobiography & Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett & George Ferencz - ed
Boydell & Brewer
The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making on Broadway, in Hollywood, and for television Benne...
$60
Free Association
Steven Berkoff
Faber & Faber
The actor, director and playwright, Steven Berkoff, recounts his childhood in London's East End, the trips "up west" during his teenage years, a formative year with family in the USA, his early career in sho...
$12.99
Enter a Fox - Further Adventures of a Paranoid
Simon Gray
Faber & Faber
Simon Gray's sheer disbelief at what the world throws at him provides a melange of humorous anecdote and bleak, black humour on the subject of what is happening, or failing to happen with the plays he is wr...
$18.99
A Life in Movies
Michael Powell
Faber & Faber
This first volume of Michael Powell's memoirs ranges from his boyhood and his first job in film, to his work with legendary film makers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Korda, and the pinnacle of his collaborati...
$34.95
Time within Time - Diaries 1970-1986
Andrei Tarkovsky
Faber & Faber
Tarkovsky's diaries were widely reviewed and considered to be a valuable addition to the Tarkovsky canon. The diaries cover his work in the Soviet Union and the increasing difficulties he encountered there f...
$29.99
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre - But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear
West End Producer
Nick Hern Books
Another hysterically funny and bitingly savage Guide from The Masked Man of Theatreland ...West End Producer - the mysterious and anonymous cult author of the hugely popular Everything You Always Wanted To K...
$22.99 , $19.54 (15% off)
I An Actor - Another Great Actor Explores Himself
Nicholas Craig
Methuen
The new revised edition of the uncensored 'Acto-biography' of the most controversial thespian of his generation - one of the funniest spoof acting books ever! The memoirs of Nicholas Craig - theatrical emin...
$23.99
Tip of the Tongue - Reflections on Language and Meaning
Peter Brook
Nick Hern Books
A thoughtful and deeply personal book by master theatre-maker Peter Brook, described by the Independent as " ... our greatest living theatre director" In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, pla...
$12.99
Brutus and Other Heroines - Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women
Harriet Walter
Nick Hern Books
"A part we have played is like a person we once met, grew to know, became intimately enmeshed with and finally moved away from. Some of these characters remain friends, others are like exlovers with whom we ...
$19.99
Year of the Fat Knight - The Falstaff Diaries
Anthony Sher
Nick Hern Books
** 10% DISCOUNT ** More than thirty-years ago a promising young actor published his account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard III Antony Sher's Year of the King has since become a classic...
$18.99
Monty Python at Work
Michael Palin
Nick Hern Books
Drawn from his published diaries, this is Michael Palin's account of the making of the Monty Python TV and stage shows, films, books and albums Monty Python at Work begins on 8th July 1969 with Palin's dia...
$20.99
Sweet William - A User's Guide to Shakespeare
Michael Pennington
Nick Hern Books
"A brilliant and intimate insider's guide to Shakespeare from one of our greatest classical actors" ~ Gregory Doran, Royal Shakespeare Company Sweet William - Michael Pennington's one-man show about Shakesp...
$19.99
Backstage Pass to Broadway - True Tales from a Theatre Press Agent
Susan L Schulman
Heliotrope Books
Do you love Broadway plays and musicals? If so, you'll love Broadway press agent Susan L. Schulman's fun, dishy new book Susan has survived some of the most celebrated train wrecks and backstage dramas o...
$17.99
By Jack Rosenthal
Jack Rosenthal
Used Copy
Pub Robson Books, 2005, h/b with d/j
$29.99
Directing Plays, Directing People - A Collaborative Art
Mary B Robinson
Smith & Kraus
Directing Plays, Directing People is a vivid, engaging, personal journey through the process of making theater, written from a director's perspective Mary B. Robinson, an award-winning director whose career...
$17.99
The Quality of Mercy - Reflections on Shakespeare
Peter Brook - HARDBACK
Nick Hern Books
Unique insights from one of the world's most influential and admired theatre directors Peter Brook's legendary Shakespearean productions have had the most profound influence of any living director on modern...
$24.99