Theatrical Biographies and Memoirs |
Bowmer, Angus L. As I Remember, Adam: An Autobiography of a Festival. Ashland, Oregon: Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association, 1975.
Coleman, Marion Moore. Fair Rosalind: The American Career of Helena Modjeska. Cheshire, CT: Cherry Hill Books, 1969.
Collins, Mabel. The Story of Helena Modjeska (Madame Chlapowska). London: W.H. Allen, 1885.
Daly, Joseph Francis. The Life of Augustin Daly. New York: Macmillan, 1917.
Drew, Mrs. John. Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew, with an Introduction by Her Son John Drew. New York: Scribner’s, 1899.
Epstein, Helen. The Companies She Keeps: Tina Packer Builds a Theater. Cambridge, MA: Plunkett Lake Press, 1985.
Epstein, Helen. Joe Papp: An American Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.
Issac, Winifred F.E.C. Ben Greet and the Old Vic. London, 1964 or 1965. Includes his years touring in America.
Jefferson, Joseph. The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. 1890. Ed. Alan S. Downer. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
Leman, Walter. Memoirs of an Old Actor. San Francisco: A. Roman Co., ca. 1886.
Ludlow, Noah Miller. Dramatic Life as I Found It . . . with an account of the rise and progress of the drama in the West and South. 1880. Ed. Richard Moody. Bronx, NY: B. Blom, 1966.
Marlowe, Julia. Julia Marlowe’s Story, by E. H. Sothern. Ed. Fairfax Downey. New York: Rinehart, 1954.
Modjeska, Helena. Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska: An Autobiography. 1910. New York: B. Blom, 1969.
Moody, Richard. Edwin Forrest, First Star of the American Stage. New York: Knopf, 1960.
Payne, Ben Iden. A Life in a Wooden O: Memoirs of the Theatre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Peters, Margot. House of Barrymore. New York, Knopf, 1990.
Ruggles, Eleanor. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth. New York: Norton, 1953.
Russell, Charles Edward. Julia Marlowe, her Life and Art. New York: Appleton, 1926.
Ryan, Kate. Old Boston Museum Days. Boston: Little, Brown, 1915.
Smith, Sol (Solomon). Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years. New York: Harper, 1868.
Stebbins, Emma. Charlotte Cushman: Her Letters and Memoires of Her Life. Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878.
Winter, William. Ada Rehan: a Study. New York: privately printed for A. Daly, 1891–98.
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