Kathleen Turner autobiography lets it all hang out. You get to see the vulnerabilities as well as the accomplishments and the raging ego.

In How Sondheim Found His Sound, Steve Swayne tries to define his subject by checking out his record collection. A novel idea, but not necessarily so

Having said all there is to say about the Broadway musical, Ethan Mordden sets his sights on the Broadway drama in All That Glittered-with mixed results

Sir Laurence Olivier, despite occasional protestations to the contrary, was never entirely content to be a mere performer. The press, his peers, the nobility of England and his legions of fans...

There’s an audacious, even ingenious idea at work in A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. Rather than drain the same few drops of scant biographical evidence for every single possible meaning...