Performing Arts

My Actor-Husband

by William James McGlothlin • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and stri…

Life of Liszt

by Ludwig Nohl • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer, Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886), is still regarded as one of the greatest classical musicians of all …

The Seven Lively Arts

by Gilbert Seldes • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a…

Behind the Footlights

by Ethel Brilliana Tweedie • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 5★

In this collection of essays the author gives us an opportunity to peek into the mysterious life of the theatre; she recalls her numerous co…

Circus Life and Circus Celebrities

by Thomas Frost • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Discover the exciting, shocking, and sometimes strange world of the 19th century big top! In Circus Life and Circus Celebrities, you'll read…

The True History of The Ghost

by John Henry Pepper • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 2★

This work portrays the true history of the illusionary tactic known as "Pepper's Ghost." This is a method of projecting an actor …

My Musical Life

by Walter Damrosch • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

This is the autobiography of the Prussian-born American conductor Walter Damrosch. It includes dozens of anecdotes about many of the great m…

Charles Dickens and Music

by James T. Lightwood • Read by Warren Bergmann • 5★

This is a detailed exploration of the references to music in the novels of Dickens: songs, instrumental pieces, performers, composers, and m…

Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright

by Hamilton Fyfe • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

A discussion about the life and works of the playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The perfect accompaniment to the plays by Pinero available here …

Shadowland

by Various • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…

Seen on the Stage

by Clayton Hamilton • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…

Shadowland

by Various • Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…

Shadowland

by Various • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 1★

Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…