All the World's a Stage

Books about theater, TV, movies, Broadway, and Hollywood 🎭

Updated May 19, 2025
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The secret life of the American musical : how classic Broadway shows are built
Viertel, Jack.
Paper Book
ANew York TimesBestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school...
When women invented television : the untold story of the female powerhouses who pioneered the way we watch today
Armstrong, Jennifer
Paper Book
New and Noteworthy  --New York Times Book Review Must-Read Book of March  --Entertainment Weekly Best Books of March  --HelloGiggles "Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired...
All's well
Awad, Mona
Paper Book
From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as "genius," comes a "wild, and exhilarating" (Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare's most maligned play will remedy all that ails her--but at what...
Mercury Pictures presents : a novel
Marra, Anthony
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction * The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles--a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the...
I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution
Nussbaum, Emily 1966-
Paper Book
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. "Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic-smart, engaging, funny, generous, and insightful."...
Sunny days : the children's television revolution that changed America
Kamp, David
Paper Book
One of the "Best Books" of the year from The Smithsonian, The Washington Independent Review, and more! From bestselling writer David Kamp, the "fun, fascinating, and surprisingly touching," (People) behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes who created the...
Disaster at the Vendome Theater
Longworth, M. L. (Mary Lou) 1963-
Paper Book
Calamity befalls the little Vendome Theater in the tenth installment of the sun- and wine-soaked Proven al Mystery Series. Proven al Mystery Series #10 Watch the series! Murder in Provence is now on Britbox. When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful...

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