The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing by 
Theatre-Making: : interplay between text and performance in the 21st century by 
Theatre Craft: a director's practical companion from A to Z by 
Contemporary Mise en Scène: staging theatre today by
The following subject headings will include books on practical, theoretical and historical aspects of directing and stage management.
Arnott, P. D. (1989). Public and performance in the Greek theatre. London: Routledge.
Brockett, O. G., & Findlay, R. R. (1973). Century of innovation: A history of European and American theatre and drama since 1870. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall.
Brook, P. (1968). The empty space. New York: Atheneum.
Chinoy, H. K., & Cole, T. (1963). Directors on directing: A source book of the modern theater. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Esslin, M. (2001). The theatre of the absurd. London: Methuen.
Grotowski, J. (1970). Towards a poor theatre. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Leggatt, A. (1992). Jacobean public theatre. London: Routledge.
Patterson, M. (1981). Peter Stein, Germany's leading theatre director. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press.
Postlewait, T., & McConachie, B. A. (1989). Interpreting the theatrical past: Essays in the historiography of performance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Roose-Evans, J., & Roose-Evans, J. (1984). Experimental theatre from Stanislavsky to Peter Brook. New York: Universe Books.
Walton, J. M. (1987). Living Greek theatre: A handbook of classical performance and modern production. New York: Greenwood Press.
Whitton, D. (1987). Stage directors in modern France. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
