From Shakespeare to Coward

"Being in a hit play on Broadway is one of the most exciting things that can happen to an actor. There is much more of a family feeling between the performers than in London. During my season there, Lucie Arnaz and I on Saturdays, organized an event called Matinee Idles where cast members from various productions would eat together between shows."
-TOM CONTI

"This guide to historical theatrical New York is a must for theatre lovers either visiting New York or for theatre lovers who like to explore the various areas of Manhattan."
-SHERIDAN MORLEY

"Elizabeth Sharland is a true enthusiast of the theatre, whose love for it began when she was a child in Tasmania. It is now communicated through her own shows, her lecturing on cruise liners, and now this book, which is incidentally the title of an anthology she has presented in London and elsewhere with the help of well-known actors.

It is a discursive guide, not only to theatres, but to houses, public buildings, shops and restaurants which have a theatrical connection, and as such is of particular interest to visitors from overseas, especially Americans. The first part concentrates on London, but halfway she switches to overseas, with chapters about Broadway, Somerset Maugham's villa in the South of France, Coward's home in Jamaica, George Sand's chateau and Puccini's house in Italy. Everything is embellished with anecdotes and personal reminiscences in an engagingly youngish style which is a long way removed from the dry references in conventional theatre guides."
-PETER HEPPLE
The Stage