Drama: An Actor’s Education
By John Lithgow (Harper, $27)
The Emmy- and Tony-award winner writes of his itinerant childhood and Broadway experience with such vivid, engaging prose that the memoir is a virtuoso performance in itself.
Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
By Florence Henderson with Joel Brokaw (Center Street, $26)
Here’s the story of that lovely lady whose 60-year career has ventured far beyond the Brady house to Broadway, the Today show and even Dancing with the Stars.