Overview

International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminet reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. The twentieth century is the great century of change in the theatre, and the entries capture this modern dynamism and its huge diversity. No other reference work on the subject has the authentic smell of greasepaint in its prose.