The Book Company: New Products - Entertainment & Performing Arts

The Good Neighbor (The Life and Work of Fred Rogers)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:23:23 +0000

New York Times bestseller
2018 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for History & Biography

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of..

Price: $30.00

Xenakis (His Life in Music)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:32:13 +0000

Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and c..

Price: $233.99

And the Shark, He Has Teeth (A Theater Producer's Notes)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:29:35 +0000

First English translation of the memoirs of the vaunted theater producer Aufricht, providing an inside account of the late Weimar theater scene in Berlin and much else of interest.

This is the first English translation of the memoirs of the great German-Jewish theat..

Price: $65.00

Michael Chekhov

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:51:33 +0000

This revised and updated edition of Michael Chekhov includes: a biographical introduction to Chekhov’s life, a clear explanation of his key writings, an analysis of his work as a director and a practical guide to Chekhov’s unique actor-training exercises. As a first step towards critical..

Price: $233.99

Sinatra's Women

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:22:51 +0000

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Price: $29.00

Sally Wainwright

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:49:56 +0000

The first and only book length study of British screenwriter, director and producer Sally Wainwright. Authors Gorton and Johnson brings together Wainwright’s key television series and television films with theoretical work on the concept of emotion and feminist television criticism, exploring Wain..

Price: $130.00

Beautiful doom (The work of Dennis Kelly on stage and screen)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:49:02 +0000

Dennis Kelly’s award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of audiences across a range of forms, genres, and media, from the Olivier and Tony Award-winning Ma..
Price: $140.00

The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:52:10 +0000

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also ..
Price: $130.00

Idols of the Odeons (Post-war British film stardom)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:48:11 +0000

Idols of the Odeons examines British film stardom in the post-war era, a time when Hollywood movies were increasingly supplanting the Pinewood/Elstree studio system. The book encompasses the careers of sixteen actors, including Stanley Baker, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Hattie Jacques, Peter Finch ..
Price: $130.00

Charlotte Gainsbourg (Transnational and transmedia stardom)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:45:00 +0000

Actress, singer, indie icon and embodiment of Parisian cool, Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of the most intriguing yet understated stars of our time. This book, the first detailed study of Gainsbourg, charts the trajectory of her star persona across four decades, from her early work with her father a..
Price: $130.00