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Despite his early death in 1967, Epstein - who was the owner of a record shop in Liverpoool - is widely credited with creating the Beatles as they came to be.

Mr Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of The Beatles ...

Philip Norman

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Her first memoir.

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Liza Minnelli

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To mark the centenary of Picasso's Three Dancers, the Tate Modern is staging an exhibition that celebrates his love of performance, with fifty-odd of his works inspired by musicians, actors,... read more

Theatre Picasso

Rosalie Doubal

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On the relationship between fact and fiction and his own concept of 'ecstatic truth' - the kind that he believes only art can drive toward.

The Future of Truth

Werner Herzog

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Not only Lynch's commercial successes and cult classics but also his sallies into art, photography and music, as well as his influences and philosophies. Many photos and stills, nicely produ... read more

David Lynch: His Work, His World

Tom Huddleston

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Tolstoy loathed the ballet and thought it should be got rid of... Here is a fascinating, scholarly book on the aesthetics of Russian ballet from the mid-C19th to the mid-C20th, both conserva... read more

Impossible Project: The Story of Russian Ballet and Its Survival ...

Daria Khitrova

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Lahr was the New Yorker's leading theatre critic for over twenty years. Here his portraits of actors and directors (incl Helen Mirren, Al Pacino and Judi Dench) are brought together for the ... read more

Razzle Dazzle ‘Em: New Yorker Profiles of Show-Biz Legends ...

John Lahr

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As elegant and tasteful a book as you'd expect. Including film stills, previously unpublished photography and contributions from Olivia Laing, Joanna Hogg and Luca Guadagnino.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton

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A delightful memoir of CT's dance tour from Nova Scotia to Sweden, London and Paris in the late 1930s. It's an unusually funny portrait of pre-war Europe, with a plucky, adventurous young ba... read more

Les Girls

Constance Tomkinson

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She began performing as a child, singing to troops during WW2. She has hardly stopped since and, after selling an estimated 100 million records, hers must be one of the longest and most succ... read more

Is That You, Petula?

Petula Clark

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A first (and big) biography of the reviver of the Hollywood symphonic score. Includes interviews with Hans Zimmer, Mia Farrow, Oliver Stone et al.

John Williams: A Composer’s Life

Tim Greiving

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The genius of David Byrne and his cohorts.

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Tran ...

Jonathan Gould

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A biography of the guitarist and lead singer of The Jam: "...You choose your leaders and place your trust/ As their lies wash you down and their promises rust/ You'll see kidney machines rep... read more

Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire

Dan Jennings

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His Harold and Maude soundtrack was his finest hour. Discuss.

Cat On The Road To Findout

Yusuf/Cat Stevens

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Photos of Smith and her band around the release of her first album.

Patti Smith: Horses, Paris 1976

Claude Gassian

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The new memoir from this magnificent story-teller and musician is perhaps her most personal yet.

Bread of Angels

Patti Smith

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A huge biography - by a seasoned practitioner - of this zany, difficult, unhappy and brilliant man.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Roger Lewis

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A memoir from the erstwhile editor at GQ, biographer of Bowie and Dylan, arbiter of style and culture.

These Foolish Things: A Memoir

Dylan Jones

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Perspicacious readings of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Beethoven's Fidelio, Berlioz's Les Troyens, and Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.

Said on Opera

Edward Said

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Annand has spent 35 years taking pics of actors before they go on stage in the West End.

Backstage: Portraits of Actors at Work in the Theatre ...

Simon Annand

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A lavishly illustrated biography of Hollywood's first African American movie star.

Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed

Donald Bogle

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Olivier, Ashcroft, Rigg, Rickman... A chronicle of postwar theatre.

The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors ...

Michael Coveney

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A major biography from Faber, covering the master's 60-year career.

God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman ...

Peter Cowie

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In a series of interviews, Dame Judy talks through three score years and ten of Shakespearean roles.

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent

Judi Dench

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More from the author of This Much Is True.

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

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A portrait of his 60-year marriage with Prunella Scales.

Pru and Me

Timothy West

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Gorer met Fran?ois 'F?ral' Benga, the great Senegalese dancer, in the interwar artistic community of Paris in 1934. This is a re-issue of Gorer's remarkable account of their travels around W... read more

Africa Dances

Geoffrey Gorer

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Stoppard's libretto for André Previn's Penelope - a monodrama by Odysseus's wife - first performed in 2019 by Renée Fleming, Uma Thurman and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Penelope

Tom Stoppard

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Who would not love a tour of the Royal Opera House, half an hour before a performance of 'Nutcracker'? Figaro the opera cat takes us to try on the Mad Hatter's hat, adjust the tutu of the Su... read more

Curtain Up!: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House ...

Royal Opera House

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A memoir of the making of a pianist, and the significance of classical music nowadays.

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons ...

Jeremy Denk

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An entertaining novel about a (real) Georgian child actor making a comeback at the age of 21.

The Young Pretender

Michael Arditti

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This marvellous memoir of her youth in Tottenham ends when her theatrical career takes off: forthright, transparent, dry, funny - there is nothing remotely precious about Dame Eileen's accou... read more

Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

Eileen Atkins

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This marvellous memoir of her youth in Tottenham ends when her theatrical career takes off: forthright, transparent, dry, funny - there is nothing remotely precious about Dame Eileen's accou... read more

Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

Eileen Atkins

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Interwar Cairo was raucous and cosmopolitan, its burgeoning counterculture pioneered by women - singers, dancers and actresses. Publication of this book has been delayed under May 6th 202... read more

Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring `20s ...

Raphael Cormack

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The third volume of his hugely entertaining memoirs, in which he recounts a decade of wrestling with the spirits of Oscar Wilde.

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

Rupert Everett

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Three generations of impresarios gave us the Savoy, Gilbert & Sullivan, and made Wilde a transatlantic celebrity.

The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D’Oyly Carte family ...

Olivia Williams

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