Stefan Brecht - The Original Theatre of the City of New York from the mid-60s to the mid-70s - Book 1 - The Theatre of Visions
Robert Wilson
Used Copy
$18.99
Theatre Theory books - Theatre History books
Victorian Theatrical Trades - Articles from The Stage 1883-1884
Michael R Booth
Society for Theatre Research
$8.99
The Collected Works of Harold Clurman
Marjorie Loggia & Glenn Young - eds
Applause Books
The Collected Works of Harold Clurman - Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre Dance Music Film & Arts and Letters "Destined to become both source book and primer for everyone interested in the theater o...
$27.99
Pinter in the Theatre
Ian Smith
Nick Hern Books
Published to mark his 75th year, this is the first book to focus on Pinter's work in the theatre Eight actors and directors who have worked with Pinter in the theatre talk candidly about what it's like t...
$14.99
The Moscow Art Theatre Letters
Jean Benedetti - ed
Methuen
The legendary Moscow Art theatre was born of a dream to reform and forge a new dramatic and production style which would revitalize the Russian stage Its impact has enduringly changed acting and theatre aro...
$25.99
The Crucible in History and Other Essays
Arthur Miller
Methuen
A repressive era in American history brought vividly to life by America's most celebrated dramatist In this book of three essays, Arthur Miller looks back some fifty years to expose the post-war politic...
$15.99
Life in a Wooden O / Memoirs of the Theatre
Memoirs of the Theatre
Payne recalls the English theatre at the turn of the 19C with wit and affection, vividly brought to life by accounts of popular actor-managers,the fit-up companies, the Playboy riots, Yeats, Mrs Horniman, ...
$36.99
The National Theatre
Judith Cook
Used Copy
$19.99
Walking On Water - Sydney Theatre Company At The Wharf
Kim Spinks & Sharon Baird
Currency Press
The first ten years in one of the most successful conversions of a heritage building - from derelict finger wharf to the unique home of the Sydney Theatre Company. It has assessments of this landmark theatre...
$23.99
The Theatre of the Holocaust - Volume TWO - Six Plays
Robert Skloot - ed - & Shimon Wincel photographer
University of Wisconsin
This Second Volume of The Theatre of the Holocaust, when combined with Volume 1, represents the most significant and comprehensive international collection of plays on the Holocaust Since the appearance of ...
$24.99
Commedia Dell'Arte in the Twentieth Century - A Handbook for Actors
John Rudlin
Routledge
An account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical, step-by-step guide to using Commedia techniques in performance The text provides sample monologues and explains each stock...
$39.99
The Man Who Drew London - Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination
Gillian Tindall
Pimlico
Gillian Tindall's books take little-known characters and - through imaginative reconstruction - make their life stories stand for 'big' events in history ... Hollar stands for the English Civil War, the exi...
$20
Reflecting the Audience - London Theatregoing 1840-1880
Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow
Hertfordshire Press
This innovative work begins to fill a large gap in theatre studies - the lack of any comprehensive study of nineteenth-century theatre audiences Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow focus on London from 1840, im...
$29.99
Studies in the Commedia Dell'arte
David J. George & Christopher J. Gossip - eds
University of Wales
The original commedia dell'arte was performed by travelling players in late sixteenth-century Italy, who improvised their plays around a basic plot or scenario. The best known commedia characters were the co...
$99.99
The Art of the Theatre Workshop
Murray Melvin
Oberon
In 1953 a small company of actors led by Joan Littlewood arrived in London's East End for a six week season at the vacant Theatre Royal The company's commitment to theatre for all still thrives at Theatre R...
$35
Stop the Show! - A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater
Brad Schreiber
Thunder's Mouth Press
The first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the USA and the UK This book includes stories from top d...
$16.99
Cultural Shakespeare - Essays in the Shakespeare Myth
Graham Holderness
Hertfordshire Press
This unique collection of seminal works includes essays in literature, theatre, film/media and cultural studies, and is an indispensable resource for studies in the 'Shakespeare industry' This volume bring...
$29.99
Theatre and War - 1933-1945
Michael Balfour
Berghahn Books
Of interest to students of cultural studies, theatre studies and European history, as well as to the general reader fascinated by this little-known aspect of the European scene during the 1930s and 1940s T...
$25.99
Approaches to Acting - Past and Present
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Continuum
Over time, approaches to acting have changed considerably. In the West, until the end of the 19C, such changes occured in the realm of acting itself, focussing on whether it should be 'natural' or 'formal' ...
$69.99
Commedia Dell'Arte - A Handbook for Troupes
John Rudlin
Routledge
This companion to John Rudlin's best-selling Commedia dell'Arte - A Handbook for Actors, covers both the history and professional practice of commedia dell'arte companies from 1568 to the present day It a...
$45