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BOOKS: (Articles/Links page)

Lee Strasberg, the Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio

by Cindy Heller Adams (1980)

Doubleday (1980), Edition: 1st, 398 pages

Masks Or Faces? A Study In The Psychology Of Acting

by William Archer (2010)

Archer, William

Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2010), 248 pages

 

 

BOOKS: 

Lee Strasberg, the Imperfect Genius of the Actors Studio

by Cindy Heller Adams (1980)

Doubleday (1980), Edition: 1st, 398 pages

Masks Or Faces? A Study In The Psychology Of Acting

by William Archer (2010)

Archer, William

Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2010), 248 pages

Michel Saint-Denis and the Shaping of the Modern Actor (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

by Jane Baldwin (2003)

Praeger (2003), Edition: Illustrated, 240 pages

The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova: Was Hitler's Favorite Actress a Russian Spy?

by Antony Beevor (2004)

Viking Adult (2004), 320 pages

Stanislavski: A Life (Biography)

by Jean Benedetti (1999)

Methuen Drama (1999), Edition: 2nd, 434 pages

The Moscow Arts Theatre Letters

by Jean Benedetti (1991)

Methuen Publishing Ltd (1991)

The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times 

by Eric Bentley

Mariner Books (1987), Edition: Revised, 416 pages

The great lover: The life and art of Herbert Beerbohm Tree

by Madeleine Bingham (1979)

Atheneum (1979), Edition: 1st American ed, 293 pages

The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto

by Herbert Blau (1964)

The Macmillan Co. (1964), Edition: First Printing Stated, 309 pages

Acting: The First Six Lessons: Documents from the American Laboratory Theatre

by Richard Boleslavsky (2010)

Routledge (2010), Edition: 2, 206 pages

A Triptych from the Russian Theatre: An Artistic Biography of the Komissarzhevskys

by Victor Borovsky (2001)

Hurst & Co. (2001), 485 pages
 

The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate 

by Peter Brook 

Scribner (1995), Edition: Reprint, 144 pages

The Theatre of Revolt: Studies in modern drama from Ibsen to Genet 

by Robert Brustein 

Ivan R. Dee (1991), 452 pages

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act 

by Isaac Butler 

Bloomsbury Publishing (2022), 512 pages

Being an actor

by Simon Callow (1984)

Methuen (1984), Edition: First Edition, 190 pages

Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1997)  Jean Benedetti (Editor)

Ecco Pr (1997), 291 pages

To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting

by Michael Chekhov (1985)

Harper and Row (1985), Edition: Reprint, 224 pages

The Fervent Years

by Harold Clurman (1983)

Da Capo Press (1983), 329 pages

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat 

by Brian Cox 

Grand Central Publishing (2022), 384 pages

Nikolai Demidov: Becoming an Actor-Creator

by Nikolai Demidov (2020)

Routledge (2020), Edition: 1, 832 pages

Jacques Copeau's Friends and Disciples (Francophone Cultures and Literatures)

by Thomas John Donahue (2007)

Peter Lang Publishing (2007), 168 pages

The Actor's Studio: A Player's Place

by David Garfield (1984)

Macmillan Pub Co (1984), Edition: Reprint, 318 pages

Lear's Daughters: The Studios of the Moscow Art Theatre, 1905-1927 (American University Studies. Series Xxvi, Theatre Arts, Vol. 29)

by Rebecca Gauss (1999)

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (1999), 147 pages

The Stanislavsky Technique: Russia: A Workbook for Actors (Applause Acting Series)
by Mel Gordon (2000)

Applause (2000), Edition: First Edition, 272 pages

Stanislavsky in America

by Mel Gordon (2009)

Routledge (2009), Edition: 1, 194 pages

Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky (Russian Literature and Thought Series)

by Maxim Gorky (2008) Donald Fanger (Editor)

Yale University Press (2008), Edition: First Edition, 320 pages

Towards Poor Theatre 

by Jerzy Grotowski 

Simon & Schuster (1970)

The End Of Acting: A Radical View (Applause Acting Series)

by Richard Hornby (2000)

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (2000), Edition: First Edition

Final Dress

by John Houseman (1983)

Simon & Schuster (1983), Edition: 1st Edition, 559 pages

The Actor Uncovered

by Michael Howard (2017)

Allworth Press (2017), 240 pages

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone (1987)

Routledge (1987), Edition: 1, 208 pages

The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue (Theatre Arts Book)

by Robert Edmond Jones (2004)

Routledge (2004), Edition: 1, 160 pages

New Theatre and Film 1934 to 1937: An Anthology #31642

by Herbert; Shaw Kline, Irwin (1985)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1985), Edition: First Edition

Active Analysis

by Maria Knebel (2021)

Routledge (2021), Edition: 1, 260 pages

Myself and the theatre

by Theodore Komisarjevsky (1929)

Heinemann (1929)

The Group Theatre: Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

by Helen Krich Chinoy (2013)

Palgrave Macmillan (2013), Edition: 2013, 283 pages

Jacques Copeau: Biography of a Theater

by Maurice Kurtz (1999)

Southern Illinois University Press (1999), Edition: 1st, 216 pages

Method - or Madness?

by Robert Lewis (2017)

Samuel French, Inc. (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 188 pages
 

Yevgeny Vakhtangov: A Critical Portrait

by Andrei Malaev-Babel (2012)

Routledge (2012), Edition: 1, 312 pages

The Other Chekhov: A Biography of Michael Chekhov, the Legendary Actor, Director, and Theorist

by Charles Marowitz (2004)

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (2004), 302 pages

Burnt Bridges: A Souvenir of the Swinging Sixties and Beyond

by Charles Marowitz (1992)

Hodder & Stoughton (1992), 256 pages

Before Stanislavsky: American Professional Acting Schools and Acting Theory, 1875-1925

by James H. McTeague

Scarecrow Pr, 296 pages

The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov (Routledge Companions)

by Yana Meerzon (2017)

Routledge (2017), Edition: 1, 434 pages

Theatre the Rediscovery of Style 

by Michel Saint Denis (2016)

Facsimile Publisher (2016), 124 pages

My life in the Russian theatre

by Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko

Translated by John Cournos. Foreword by Oliver (1937) Geoffrey Bles (1937), Edition: First Edition

He Ran All the Way: The Life of John Garfield

by Robert Nott (2003)

Limelight Editions (2004), Edition: 1, 354 pages

Juilliard: A History (Music in American Life)

by Andrea Olmstead (2002)

University of Illinois Press (2002), Edition: Reprint, 368 pages

Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training

by Jonathan Pitches (2012)

Routledge (2012), Edition: 1, 224 pages

Vsevolod Meyerhold (Routledge Performance Practitioners) 

by Jonathan Pitches

Routledge (2018), Edition: 1, 164 pages

Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free

by V.S. Pritchett (1988)

Random House (1988), 235 pages

The Actor's Ways and Means (Theatre Arts Book) 

by Michael Redgrave 

Other authors: Vanessa Redgrave (Introduction)

Routledge (1995), Edition: 2, 144 pages

Richard Boleslavsky, his life and work in the theatre (Theater and dramatic studies)

by J. W Roberts (1981)

UMI Research Press (1981), 288 pages

Jacques Copeau (Directors in Perspective)

by John Rudlin (1986)

Cambridge University Press (1986), Edition: Illustrated, 160 pages

Russian and Soviet Theatre: Tradition and the Avant-Garde

by Konstantin Rudnitsky (2000)

Thames & Hudson (2000), Edition: New Ed, 320 pages

The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance

by Laurence Senelick (1997)

Cambridge University Press (1997), Edition: 1st Edition, 457 pages

Wandering Stars: Russian Emigré Theatre, 1905-1940 (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

by Laurence Senelick (1992)

University Of Iowa Press (1992), Edition: 1, 263 pages

Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America 1931-1940 

by Wendy Smith

Vintage (2013), Edition: Reprint, 528 pages

An Actor Prepares 
by Constantin Stanislavsky 

Read & Co. Books (2011), 222 pages

My Life in Art

by Constantin Stanislavsky (2008)

Routledge (2008), Edition: 1, 518 pages

Stanislavsky

by  Elena Polyakova  (1982)

Progress Publishers (1982), Edition: First Edition

A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method

by Lee Strasberg (1988)

Plume (1988), Edition: First Edition, 240 pages

To America with the Doukhobours (Canadian Plains Studies 12 (CPS))

by L. A. Sulerzhitsky (1982)

Canadian Plains Research Center (1982), 215 pages

Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance: The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 

by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva (Editor)

Other authors: Scott Proudfit (Editor)

Palgrave Macmillan (2018),  368 pages

The Moscow Art Theatre (Theatre Production Studies) 

by Nick Worrall

Routledge (1996), Edition: 1, 256 pages

 

The Elmhirsts of Dartington: The creation of an utopian community

by Michael Dunlop Young 

Routledge & Kegan Paul (1982), Edition: First Edition, 381 pages

The Existential Actor: Life and Death Onstage and Off

by Jeff Zinn

Smith & Kraus (2015), 232 pages

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