The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present
Michael Billington’s selection of his top 101 plays, from Antiquity to the Present, is a treat worthy of Trimalchio. Surely King Lear will top the far...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare is the world’s global literary brand, as popular in Africa, America, and Asia as he is in Europe. For the last 30 years Shakespeare’s inte...
Hope in a Ballet Shoe
Michaela DePrince was only 19 when she wrote this memoir with the help of her mother and wondered if it was not premature to undertake this task. But ...
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr is a respected critic and biographer and in his latest book, a definitive life of Tennessee Williams, he has outdone himself in giving us a ...
Allen Shawn, Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician (Jewish Lives)
Allen Shawn’s new book about Leonard Bernstein probably doesn’t replace the magisterial Humphrey Burton tome about the polymath’s extraordinary life, ...
Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir
Over Christmas, three books about entertainment folk kept me enthralled, engaged and informed. The first of these was the haunting and, at times, surp...
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, edited by René Weis
This is a wide-ranging, seriously argued and expertly presented exploration of Shakespeare’s tragedy about youngsters locked in a doomed love affair. ...
Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity by Gene A. Plunka
Gene A. Plunka introduces his book with the disclaimer that ‘Holocaust drama’ must take a form suitable to its subject matter; thus, for a play to dep...