Set In/Around or Somehow Features The Theatre

[Jordan]

I was a Theatre Major in college, and enjoy reading books set in or around the theatre, or in which the theatre factors heavily (especially the backstage element). I already have something of a list going (both adult and YA), but was wondering if anybody knows of any titles I might have missed or overlooked.

Here are the ones I have read or are already on my to-read list:

Spellcast and Spellcrossed by Barbara Ashford
The Prestige
Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar
The Esther Diamond series by Laura Resnick
Eyes like Stars (Theatre Illuminata series)
Death Troupe by Vincent O'Neil
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
Theatre of Curious Acts by Kate Gardner
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Will Grayson, Will Grayson

So it's kind of a range of genres; genre doesn't really matter as much as the theatre as setting or theme.

Does anyone know of some I might have missed? Many thanks in advance!! :)

[Kathy (Kindle-aholic)]

The Troupe

[Jordan]

Sounds great, thank you!

[Elena]

Dramarama

[Jordan]

Thanks, will definitely check it out!

[Grey]

Death of a Hollow Man by Caroline Graham is excellent

[Jordan]

That looks awesome, thank you!

[Grey]

You're welcome :) I think everyone has several hundred books catalogued inside their head, they just need a prompt to find how to retrieve them!

[Erika]

What about The Phantom of the Opera?

[Jordan]

Ooh, forgot about that one! Thanks for the reminder! :)

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

Since you said you didn't mind YA...
Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels
Happy Endings
William's Midsummer Dreams
Dramarama
Carol on Broadway
Talk

[Nicolle]

Oh I clicked on this topic ready to recommend the Diamond of Drury Lane series and yet you already have it in your list! Have you read it yet?

[jelly]

Angela Carter - Wise Children
Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet

[Sam~~ we cannot see the moon, and yet the waves still rise~~]

My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies

[Nenia]

Theatre camp! Yeah boy!

[Gea]

I adored Foolscap. It was so much fun. Foolscap: Or, the Stages of Love

[Jordan]

Thank you all for the recommendations!! I've added all of them to my to-read list.

Nicolle, I haven't read the Diamond of Drury Lane series yet. Did you like it?

[Tuck]

this one about garcia lorca, he is dead, and spends (has to) all his time in his theater, watching over and over his life. it is a huge structure, in a spiral, so he can go visit others theaters too, if he has a bit in their past lives. great new literary type novel The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell

[Nicolle]

I loved the Diamond of Drury Lane series. I've read the first three so far and rated each five stars. It was just pure fun.

[Jordan]

Awesome! Thank you guys :)

[Hester]

I don't know if this would be quite what you're looking for but Tipping the Velvet is theatric-centric, and it has lesbians. And who doesn't love lesbians?

[karen, future RA queen]

there's also Eva's Three Penny Theatre which is about brecht's theater, and Black Snow, about stanislavsky.

[Jordan]

Added all of those! Thank you! :)

[Melanie]

I liked this mystery set in 1840's England --Trumpets Sound No More

[Shelly]

Barry Unsworth's Morality PlayMorality Play

[Grey]

Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove - you will be very pleasantly surprised!

[Jordan]

Those look great! Thanks, everyone!!