Extensive image gallery of performers, useful as a resource for costumers and historians.

Details the Yale University professor who developed the "47 Workshop" that premiered the works of Eugene O' Neill.

Read a biographical profile of this playwright and theater manager known for his lavish productions during the early 20th century.

Read a brief encyclopedia entry about the 17th century actor, known for his adaptation of Shakespearean plays.

Microsoft's reference guide puts this Shakespearean actor and founder of the Globe Theater center stage. Read a short biography.

Read a brief biography about the English stage designer and producer. Includes a direct link to the Arts of Russia page.

Find brief biographical details about the lives of these two brothers, both of whom worked as theatrical managers and producers in New York City.

Encarta spotlights the man instrumental in the founding of two of England's most respected theater companies. Find out about plays he directed.

Learn the significance of this English acting dynasty and its most accomplished members.

Reference guide spotlights the famous acting couple. Lists a few stage productions that both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in.

Take in a brief article on this Russian pioneer of the theater. Read how Stalin closed the curtain on his career.

Bio of the Russian director follows his career from his time at the Moscow Art Theater through his influential stagings in the 1920s until his murder by Stalin in 1940.

Capsulizes the career of the Russian stage director, director, and cofounder, with Constantin Stanislavsky, of the Moscow Art Theater.

Encyclopedia entry for Rachel, the stage name of French actress Elisa Felix, profiles her life and a works.

Contains details about this legendary theatrical director's work on American and Austrian stages.

Learn the history of this famous family of stage producers who also started a successful chain of theaters in the 20th century.

Bio of the Russian actor, director, and teacher, cofounder of the Moscow Art Theater, and initiator of the seminal "Stanislavsky method" of acting.

Find a photograph of the director and actor as Gaev in a 1910 production of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," at the Moscow Art Theater.

Career summary of the seminal Russian actor, director, theorist, and teacher links to his productions of Bulgakov s "Days of the Turbins" and Vladimir Kirshon s "Bread."

Bio of the Russian director and founder of the Kamerny, or Chamber, Theater in 1914, best known for such productions as Annensky s "Thamirys Kytharodos."

Contains details about the British stage actress' greatest theatrical triumph, her title role in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan.

Briefly profiles the career of the British stage actor-manager, who is considered one of the most important figures of Victorian theater.

Learn about this theatrical producer's work with Fanny Brice and WC Fields, as well as his most famous creation, The Ziegfield Follies.