Maria Knebel is one of theatre studies’ missing links; a student of and later assistant to Stanislavsky, and a colleague......more

Drawing upon miscellaneous theories from Eugenio Barba, Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary sound studies, Sonorous Dra......more

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A searing new comedy from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County....more

Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright’s lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in......more

Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the......more

Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas...more

Samuel Beckett was one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the twentieth centur, and collected here......more

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to ......more

Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialis......more

A behind-the-scenes oral history of Chicago’s theater movement from 1953 to the present day from the people who made it ......more

The latest enthralling issue from Chance Magazine....more

With original photo shoots and incisive artistic commentary, Chance Magazine: Issue 9offers many more glimpses into the ......more

In Principles of Dramaturgy, Robert Scanlan explains the invariant principles behind the construction of stage and perfo......more

The Evening, a moving new drama by award-winning playwright Richard Maxwell, centers around three archetypal barflies, w......more

"Since the nineteen-sixties and seventies, New York’s experimental-theatre scene has toned down its wild-man character, ......more

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This incisive and thoughtful new title in the Theatre And series confronts the difficult relationship between theatre an......more

This new title in the Theatre And series confronts the complex relationship between theatre and death. Taking the positi......more

What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers’ provocations for change need to b......more

This exciting new title in the Theatre And series explores how theatre and the environment have informed and continue to......more

This important contribution to the Theatre And series explores what the possibilities and limits of ‘community’ contribu......more

Magills Cinema Annual offers an in-depth retrospective of significant domestic and foreign films released in the U.S. Di......more

Widely referred to as the "bible of stage makeup," the timely revision of this classic text addresses principles and tec......more

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I was born in 1994, then came Windows 95, And I would dive online to be the true me – A 2cm avatar with a denim mini and......more

Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits ......more

As war ravaged Italy in the 200s BCE, slave actors spoke truth to power. Based on the plays of Plautus, this book brings......more

In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condit......more

Edward Albee as Theatrical and Dramatic Innovator explores this three-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s innovatio......more

This book is the first substantial account of contemporary theatre’s fixation with the processing and detection of evide......more

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture a......more

This book engages students—particularly those who may not be very familiar with many plays—in the theatre experience by ......more

This book engages students—particularly those who may not be very familiar with many plays—in the theatre experience by ......more

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bow......more

The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. This sixth edition is reor......more

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly me......more

This critical new title in the Theatre & series explores the fluctuating relationship between theatre and Christianity b......more

This insightful and engaging new title in the Theatre & series explores the variousconnections between theatre and Islam......more

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance......more

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture a......more

This book asks what, if any, public role drama might play under Project Austerity – an intensification phase of contempo......more

Working at the heart of theater production, the stage management department is responsible for the smooth running of the......more

Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art engages with a diversity of contexts, locations and arts......more

The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actor......more

Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way is the first work of scholarship to comprehens......more

What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. T......more

What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. T......more

This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by ......more

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? In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood ......more

The essays included in this volume attempt to answer, directly or indirectly, the following questions connected with Sha......more

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Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or......more

Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurant......more

In the Shakespeare aftermath—where all things Shakespearean are available for reassembly and reenactment—experimental tr......more

This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. ......more

A unique book about how theatre practice impacts and informs productions of Shakespeare which will give students a criti......more

Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of o......more

This is a book about what becomes of the truth when it succumbs to generational memory loss and to the fictions that int......more

This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European ......more

This book develops media archaeological approaches to theatre and intermediality. As an age-old art form, theatre has al......more

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS, 9th Edition, relates theory and skills directly to students’ everyday ......more

The 4th volume in the Performance Ideas series. A collection of literary texts, poems, plays, paintings, and drawings, a......more

With style inspiration ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, this bookis a comprehensive introduction to the techni......more

Auditioning for Musical Theatre demystifies the process of giving the best possible professional audition for a role in ......more

Drama and Digital Arts Cultures is a critical guide to the new forms of playful exploration, co-creativity, and improvis......more

Based on the words and experiences of the people involved, this book tells the story of the community arts movement in t......more

This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925. It maps......more

Iconic Russian writer Anton Chekhov is recognized as the most translated and produced playwright in the world after Will......more

Stage Lighting: Design Applications and More builds upon the information introduced in Stage Lighting: The Fundamentals ......more

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