Lighting and sound reading list

Bell, Robert, Let There Be Light: Entertainment Lighting Software Pioneers in Conversation,  Great Shelford, Cambridge, Entertainment Technology Press, 2004

Briggs, Jody, Encyclopedia of Stage Lighting, Jefferson and London, McFarland & Co., 2003

Collison, David, Stage Sound, London, Studio Vista, 1976

Cunningham, Glen, Stage Lighting Revealed: A Design and Exhibition Handbook, Cincinnati, Ohio, Betterway Books, 1993

Fraser, Neil, Lighting and Sound: A Phaidon Theatre Manual, revised edn., London: Phaidon,1993

Hays, David, Light on the Subject: Stage Lighting for Directors and Actors and the Rest of Us, New York: Limelight Editions, 1989

Leonard, John A., Theatre Sound, London: A & C Black, 2001

Morgan, Nigel H., Stage Lighting Design in Britain: The Emergence of the Lighting Designer 1881-1950, Cambridge: Entertainment Technology Press, 2005

Morgan, Nigel H., Stage Lighting for Theatre Designers, London: Herbert Press, 1995,

Reid, Francis, The ABC of Stage Technology, London: A & C Black, 1995

Reid, Francis, Discovering Stage Lighting, Oxford: Focal Press, 1998

Reid, Francis, Hearing the Light: 50 Years Backstage,  Royston: Entertainment Technology Press, 2003

Reid, Francis, Lighting the Stage,  Oxford,  Focal Press, 1995

Reid, Francis, Yesterday's Lights: A Revolution Reported, Cambridge: Entertainment Technology Press, 2004
 
Staines, Jackie, Lighting Techniques for Theatre-in-the-Round, Royston: Entertainment Technology Press, 2000

Walne, Graham, Sound for the Theatre, London, A & C Black, 1990

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