Theatre: technical and background skills

Get to know a national icon in Eddie Izzard's hilarious and dazzling autobiography'Comic genius .

This richly illustrated short, extracted from the official book The Chronicles of Downton Abbey peels back the curtain on the making of Series 3.

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.

The one and only book on successfully staging amateur productions.

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction.

Iconic Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story from a tumultuous childhood in Depression-era Chicago to Bohemian New York in the 1950s, becoming one of the 20th century's most celebrated designers.