All the World's a Stage

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

Updated May 19, 2025
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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...
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...
The big screen : the story of the movies
Thomson, David 1941-
Paper Book
The Big Screentells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen--smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous--as important as the images it carries. The Big Screenis not another history of...
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."...
Laura Lamont's life in pictures
Straub, Emma.
Paper Book
A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age. In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door...
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...
Theater geek : the real life drama of a summer at Stagedoor Manor
Rapkin, Mickey.
Paper Book
Before there was Glee or American Idol, there was Stagedoor Manor, a theater camp in the Catskills where big-time Hollywood casting directors came to find the next generation of stars. It's where Natalie Portman, Robert Downey, Jr., Zach Braff, Mandy Moore, Lea Michele, and many...
Disaster at the Vendome Theater
Longworth, M. L. (Mary Lou) 1963-
Paper Book
When Jean-Marc Sauvet accepted a role in a local theatre's summer production he had no idea the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But Jean-Marc's excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage...

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