FEATURED Books
| Acting in Shakespeare | |
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This newly revised and expanded second edition of Cohen’s distinguished work on Shakespearean acting (2005) is available in an inexpensive paperback...
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| Acting One/Acting Two | |
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McGraw-Hill, 2008
This is the fifth edition of Cohen’s Acting One, combined with the second, fully revised edition of his Advanced Acting. In combination,...
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| Acting Professionally | |
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Now in its seventh, completely revised edition, and co-authored with distinguished casting director James Calleri. Regarded...
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| Acting Power: the 21st Century Edition | |
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‘Robert Cohen’s book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the...
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| Working Together in Theatre | |
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Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world's great theatre artists combine collaboration...
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| Machiavelli: the art of Terror | |
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New play by Robert Cohen
(Formerly “The Prince”)
The play (under the title The Prince) premiered at the California Repertory Theatre in Long Beach...
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| Eight Plays for Theatre | |
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Eight representative plays from the Greeks to the present, six of which are used as historical models in Cohen’s Theatre
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos...
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| Theatre, Brief Edition | |
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Tenth Edition
McGraw-Hill, 2013
A condensation of the full version of Cohen's best-selling Theatre, which includes all of its chapters on theatrical...
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| Giraudoux: Three Faces of Destiny | |
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A scholarly analysis of the plays of French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. University of Chicago Press, 1968.
"Professor Cohen brings to his analysis of...
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| More Power to You | |
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A collection of Robert Cohen’s most important essays on theatre from 1959 to 2000. Also published in Romanian.
Table of Contents
ON PLAYING
“Tears...
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| The Misanthrope | |
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By Molière, translated and directed by Robert Cohen
A rhyming translation set in the play’s time (1666) but with a contemporary energy; staged at...
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ABOUT
Founding Chair of Drama at the University of California at Irvine, Robert Cohen now holds that campus’ title of Claire Trevor Professor. He is, in roughly equal measure, a director, playwright, translator, drama critic, acting theorist and acting teacher, but is most widely known as the author of a dozen-plus books and three dozen-plus articles on acting, directing and theatre — including Acting One, for the last two decades the best-selling acting text in the United States.
Born in Washington DC in 1938, Cohen took his
undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College
and UC Berkeley, receiving his Doctor of
Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama
in 1965, at which point he joined
the charter faculty of the newly-
founded Irvine campus.
Now in his 48th year
on this faculty…
Robert Cohen teaching, UCI, Feb. 2007
Photography by Laurencine LotCURRENT
Cohen’s Acting Power: the 21st Century Edition, a wholesale revision of his Acting Power written more than 35 years ago, was published by Routledge Press in February, 2013.
And the tenth editions of his Theatre and Theatre: Brief Edition – which include over a hundred new photographs of contemporary theatre productions, plus new essays on Performance Studies, The Book of Mormon scenic designer Scott Pask, Romanian stage director Silviu Purcarete, and playwrights Theresa Rebeck, Yasmina Reza, Sarah Ruhl and Wendy Wasserstein – came out with McGraw-Hill, also in February, 2013.
