This collection offers insight into 75 years of acting in the American theatre through interviews with 17 of its most accomplished performers, from Jessica Tandy, who made her stage debut in 1927, to Nathan Lane, who first appeared on Broadway in 1982.

Zoe Caldwell
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
Blythe Danner
Ruby Dee
George Grizzard
Julie Harris
Eileen Heckart
Cherry Jones
James Earl Jones
Stacy Keach
Shirley Knight
Nathan Lane
Jason Robards
Maureen Stapleton
Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson

Jackson R. Bryer is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the editor of The Playwright's Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists (Rutgers University Press), and several other books on the performing arts. 
Richard A. Davison is a professor of English at the University of Delaware. He has published three books on Frank, Charles, and Kathleen Norris.