The importance of actors' views on acting has long been recog-nized, but until the first edition of this now classic volume, there seemed little available by actors themselves. In bringing together the literature of the player, Actors On Acting offered for the first time an important body of histrionic theory, technique, practice, and insight, and its publication was greeted with great enthusiasm.

"Probably the most important book for students and lovers of drama since Stanislavsky's My Life in Art... this beautifully organized and indexed volume is of inestimable value..." – stated Theatre Arts Magazine.