📚 Theater

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with theater on their catalogue record, first published between 1753 and 2008, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject theater in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 73,807 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1828	86
The gamester	Edward Moore	1753	58
Ubu roi	Alfred Jarry	1896	38
Some account of the English stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830	John Genest	1832	28
Morning journey	James Hilton	1951	28
Know your own mind	Arthur Murphy	1778	17
On the art of the theatre	Edward Gordon Craig	1911	17
History of the theatre	Oscar G. Brockett	1968	17
Theatrical design and production	J. Michael Gillette	1987	17
Theatre Experience	Edwin Wilson	1997	17
Theatre	Robert Cohen	1981	16
Budgeting	Glenn A. Welsch	1957	15
Towards a poor theatre	Jerzy Grotowski	1968	15
Audition	Michael Shurtleff	1978	14
Bent	Martin Sherman	1979	14
Theater	Edwin Wilson	1991	14
Barefoot in the park	Neil Simon	1964	13
The theatre of the Greeks	Donaldson, John William	1836	12
Modern theatre practice	Hubert C. Heffner	1935	12
E.E. Cummings	E. E. Cummings	1965	11
The essential theatre	Oscar G. Brockett	1976	11
Stage makeup	Richard Corson	1949	10
Theatre	Robert Cohen	1983	10
Brecht on theatre	Bertolt Brecht	1964	9
I will marry when I want	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo	1977	9
The creative spirit	Stephanie Arnold	1998	9
The fervent years	Harold Clurman	1945	8
Drag	Baker, Roger	1968	8
Will in the World	Stephen Greenblatt	2004	8
The director's craft	Katie Mitchell	2008	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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