Women In Acting Books: Despite what Hollywood will have you believe, there are women's roles out there, even if you have to kick, scratch and punch someone in the eye to find them, they are there. This list of books covers not only some great and significant moments in women acting history but hits out on race, gender issues and lists a few of the women who really helped pave the way. If you are looking for more books on film check our Main Movie Books Index page.
Women, Nationalism and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 46) by Betsy Bolton
Judi Dench: With a Crack in Her Voice by John Miller
Chicanas/Latinas in American Theatre: A History of Performance by Elizabeth C. Ramirez
The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theatre, 1900-1940 by Nadine George-Graves
Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman
Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840 by Catherine B. Burroughs (Editor)
Susan Glaspell: A Critical Biography by Barbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, Barbara Ozieblo
Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy by Carl Rollyson
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman
Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook by Elaine Aston
The World of Ruth Draper: A Portrait of an Actress by Dorothy Warren, Helen Hayes
The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-Portrait of an Actress by Ruth Draper
Ferber: Edna Ferber and Her Circle: A Biography by Julie Goldsmith Gilbert
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Live: Theatre of the Imagination by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Women and the Victorian Theatre by Kerry Powell
The Makings of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows: Research Through Performance (Studies in Theatre Arts, Vol 4) by Dianne Hunter
Women in the American Theatre: Actresses & Audiences 1790-1870 by Faye E. Dudden
Lorraine Hansberry by Richard M. Leeson
Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender by Alisa Solomon
Women Write for Theatre by Aviva Ravel
A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and Beyond the Stage (Worlds of Performance) by Carol Martin
Three Tragic Actresses: Siddons, Rachel, Ristori by Michael R. Booth
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words by Robert Nemiroff
You Don't Need Four Women to Play Shakespeare: Bias in Contemporary American Theatre by Ida Prosky
Women in the Theatre of Galdos: From Realidad 1892 to Voluntad 1895 (Hispanic Literature, Vol 6) by Lisa P. Conde
Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma by Philip E. Baruth
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation) by Sarah Bernhardt, Victoria Tietze Larson
Hammerklavier by Yasmina Reza
The Road to Mecca [UNABRIDGED] by Amy Irving (Editor)
The Sisters Rosensweig - starring Jamie Lee Curtis, JoBeth Williams, Tony Roberts, and Caroline Aaron (Audio Theatre Series) by Wendy Wasserstein, Jo-Beth Williams
An American Daughter (Audio Theatre Series) by Wendy Wasserstein
Race, Sex, and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre: The Construction of 'Woman' by Mary F. Brewer, Alan Sinfield
Women in Theatre (Contemporary Theatre Review) by Julia Pascal
Rejane: The Queen of the Boulevard by Francois Baudot, Howard Fine
Russian Mirror: Three Plays by Russian Women (Russian Theatre Archive) by Melissa T. Smith (Editor)
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