An inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'There just aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.

A book about the need for change in theatre, to reflect the gender balance of the world it seeks to represent, and how, with everyone's help, we can achieve it.

Some of the best dancers and choreographers in the world, crossing the fields of ballet, contemporary, South Asian dance and hip hop, draw on their own experience to offer advice in the most revealing and instructive book yet on what it means to be a dancer.

Award-winning actress Harriet Walter shares insights gleaned from her vast experience of performing some of Shakespeare's most famous roles - both male and female.

A unique collection of everything that Chekhov wrote about the theatre - including newspaper articles and letters - revealing his instinctive curiosity about the way theatre works and his concerns about how best to realise his own intentions as a playwright.

A witty, insightul and deliciously naughty guide on how to succeed in showbusiness, by the anonymous Internet sensation West End Producer.

West End Producer, the masked man of theatreland and author of the definitive guide to acting, returns with the ultimate guide to the theatregoing experience – for anyone who's ever been to the theatre, or who thinks they might like to try it one day.

A passionate and controversial call for black cultural separatism, from the author of the Olivier award-winning Jitney and the Pulitzer Prize-winning King Hedley II.

A revised and expanded edition of the autobiography that has delighted readers and theatregoers since its first publication in 2001.

A fascinating account of the making of the Monty Python TV and stage shows, films, books and albums, drawn from Michael Palin's published diaries.

A unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors - candid, hilarious, and often sharply revealing.

An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.

An exploration of Harold Pinter's work in the theatre – through interviews with the man himself and with actors and directors who worked with him.

A collection of new essays from the world-renowned director, offering unique and personal insights into sound and music.

One of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics.

A sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty years between 1913 and 1933, published alongside a major exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

A fascinating selection of one hundred objects, each illustrated in full colour and accompanied by a compact essay, chosen by the Victoria and Albert Museum's curators for the insight they afford into the world of Shakespeare and his plays.

Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles.

A thrilling act of literary detection as Gregory Doran attempts to rediscover Shakespeare's lost play.

An exploration of Shakespeare's life and work by a leading actor who has spent twenty thousand hours working on the plays.

A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it.

A panoramic history of modern Scottish theatre, reported from the frontline by Scotland's leading drama critic.

A wise, playful and deeply personal book by master theatre-maker Peter Brook.

A collection of fifty short pieces written by the former Artistic Director of the National Theatre.

A classic of theatre writing, a unique insight into the creation of a landmark Shakespearian performance.

Antony Sher's account of researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's greatest roles, Lear, in the 2016 Royal Shakespeare Company production. Winner of the 2019 Theatre Book Prize.