One Foot on the Stage - The Biography of Richard Wilson
James Roose-Evans
Used Copy
$29.99
Theatre & Dance & Music Biography - Theatre Biography
Drew Hayden Taylor - Essays on His Works
Robert Nunn (editor)
Guernica
The offspring of an Ojibway mother and a white father whom he has never known, Drew Hayden Taylor has long addressed vexed issues of identity and the complicated relationship between Native people and whites...
$16.99
The Blue Touch Paper - A Memoir
David Hare
Faber & Faber
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of themYet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in HastingsI...
$24.99
Tennessee Williams & Elia Kazan - A Collaboration in the Theatre
Brenda Murphy
Cambridge University Press
This is a study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia KazanTheir intense creative relationship, fuelled by a deep personal affinity that endured until Williams's death, lasted from 1947 un...
$39.99
In the Frightened Heart of Me
Tony Narducci
iUniverse
Tony Narducci fell in love with Tennessee Williams’s poetry when he was fourteen years oldFor Narducci, Williams was the genius who redefined theater in America, most accomplished modern playwright, and perh...
$21.99
The Redgraves - A Family Epic
Donald Spoto
The Robson Press
The dramatic, poignant and revealing family biography of five generations of the Redgraves, one of the greatest acting dynasties of all time In The Redgraves, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto draws on his...
$39.99
Tennessee Williams Notebooks
Margaret Bradham Thornton
Yale University Press
Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks presents by turns a passionate, whimsical, movingly lyrical, self-reflective, and completely uninhibited record of the life of this monumental American genius from 1936 to 1981...
$45.00
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)
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
Pina Bausch - The Biography
Marion Meyer trans Penny Black
Oberon
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost This is the first-ever biography in English of Pina Bausch - perhaps the most influential choreographer of the 20th century Meyer has written an accessible and affection...
$21.99
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
Living in Truth
Vaclav Havel
Faber & Faber
Gathers 6 essays by the Czech playwright, and includes 16 writings by other authors in his honour Now out of print, this last copy is in excellent condition
$24.99
Joan Littlewood - Dreams and Realities - The Official Biography
Peter Rankin
Oberon
'My only gift is to grow a show,' said Joan Littlewood, annoyed by what she had not achieved Even so, her ability to do just that put her and her company Theatre Workshop head and shoulders above mid twenti...
$19.99
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
Antonin Artaud - Man of Vision
Bettina L Knapp
Used Copy
Pub David Lewis NY, 1969 Preface by Anais Nin, h/b with d/j
$29.99
Enter A Dragon Stage Centre - an embroidered life of Mrs Siddons
Caryl Brahms
Used Copy
Pub Hodder & Stoughton, 1979 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
A Life in the Theatre
Tyrone Guthrie
Used Copy
A Readers Union edition published in 1961
$30.00
Ned Sherrin's Theatrical Anecdotes
Ned Sherrin
Used Copy
Published by Virgin in 1991 - a connoisseur's collection of legends, stories and gossip.
$24.00