Howard Loxton

Who is Howard Loxton?

Howard Loxton is a British theatre critic and writer, was born in Birmingham, England in 1934.

Loxton supervises the annual Theatre Book Prize, for the Society of Theatre Research. This is a position to which he brings the experience gleaned during a career as an actor, stage manager and author of several books on the theatre, as well as the fruits of an MA in modern drama.

Loxton is the author of about fifty books, predominantly books on the stage, history and natural history. He co-founded a journal about television, called Viewpoint, and worked as a free-ance journalist, having interviews published in The Guardian and other media outlets. He has also worked as an editor for several publishers, including Paul Hamlyn and Jonathan Cape.

An incomplete listing of the books Loxton wrote or co-wrote includes:

Shakespeare country, 2000

The Golden Age of the Circus, 1997

Theatre, 1989

Shakespeare's Theatre, 1994

The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1971

The battle of Agincourt,1968

Christmas, 1992

The assassination of President Kennedy., 1967

Railways, 1963

Westminster Abbey, 1971