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The epic, untold story of how some of the biggest names on Broadway and in Hollywood fought fascism, opened America's eyes to the Holocaust, and forced the government to take action—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Black Count In September 1941, a screenwriter sat in the bar of...

"Informative, provocative and entertaining all at the same time." - Michael Billington This is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental style. A guide to the key plays and playwriting innovations, it enlightens...

Turner Classic Movies host and Dark City Dames author Eddie Muller and Criterion Channel host Imogen Sara Smith offer an essential tour of international film noir, highlighting renowned movie classics and obscure noir masterpieces from around the world. Film noir has long been considered...

Pleasingly tall comedian Pierre Novellie (star of The Frank Skinner Show and BudPod) uses his unique style of erudite bafflement to focus on the deep and the shallow in a comedic answer to In Our Time. Join Pierre Novellie – “a master of standup” (Guardian) – for a “scintillating mix...

Brand new fiction novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Strong Female Character Meet Mary. Mary has an illness no doctor seems able or willing to name. On top of that she's preoccupied with the idea there's a secret room in her house that she can't gain access to... She realises she...

The man who wrote Taken and The Karate Kid was also an international hash dealer—and that’s not even the craziest part of this story. Before Robert Mark Kamen became the screenwriter behind some of the most beloved movies of the last forty years, he was living a life that would have been...

Before the red curls, before the Tony Awards, and long before "Tomorrow" became a Broadway anthem, there was a dream, and a risky one at that. The Annie Phenomenon is the compelling behind-the-scenes story of how a scrappy comic strip orphan made an unlikely leap from the Sunday funnies to the...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

From our earliest campfire legends to our biggest blockbuster movies, a deep dive into the stories we tell about water and the horrors it hides In the 300,000 years Homo sapiens have walked the planet, we’ve explored less than 30% of the ocean. Yet, again and again, we’re pulled under by our...

From the acclaimed director of films and TV shows such as Gun Crazy, Crossroads, Billy Madison, Half Baked, Younger, Grey’s Anatomy, and more, comes an inspirational memoir about leading a creative life and running the show, from her early experiences learning from film legends like Peter...

Relive reality TV’s golden age with Please Do Not Swear, the explosive oral history of a decade that redefined celebrity and reshaped pop culture. From the groundbreaking early days of Big Brother to the rise of ‘living soaps’ like The Only Way is Essex, culture critic Louis Staples takes...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods comes a definitive, revelatory, and cinematic biography of Tom Cruise—the most intensely ambitious, mysteriously private, and enduringly powerful star in Hollywood history. Over the past fifty years, no actor has been more fiercely...

Seventeen beloved character actors who bonded over their uniquely supportive and joyful dinner gatherings now welcome you to their table, sharing never-before-told personal stories, reminiscences, advice, jokes, and old Hollywood lore. Jason Alexander · Danny Burstein · LeVar Burton · Bryan...

A cultural history of the record-shattering Broadway musical The Wiz, and the beloved movie it inspired, revealing the never-before-told story of the man behind the sensation Since its release in 1978, The Wiz has become a cultural mainstay. Jam-packed with the top stars of the day, Diana Ross...

Twelve classic TV episodes featuring Yorkshire’s irrepressible adventurer-pensioners, with linking narration by Peter Sallis Initially conceived as a one-off for TV’s ‘Comedy Playhouse’, Last of the Summer Wine ran for an amazing 37 years on BBC One between 1973 and 2010, attracting...

Horror Podcasting argues that podcasting, as an aural medium, is about the mind. Horror is an inward-style of storytelling, and yet the reception of the podcast can be an embodied form of listening. This intersection creates conditions for a subject/listener collapse (which results in immersion)...

Winner of the 2021 Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Drama Education Resource Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we're required to start from scratch? How do we begin to make theatre using our own ideas, our...

From the legendary New Yorker theater critic and Tony Award winner, a moving memoir about American theater’s golden age. In These Foolish Things, the acclaimed author and seminal drama critic of the New Yorker for more than twenty years captures the events and people who informed his life...

Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely embraced and taught throughout the world – but is still often rejected, misunderstood and...

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today. Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur...