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The first-ever anthology from celebrated playwright Kate Hamill Bringing together seven critically acclaimed feminist ad......more

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Anne Frank & Emmett Till is an effort to reveal how some of the people the author has known and the seminal events she e......more

This book provides the first ever English translation of the Yiddish play, Mississippi. Penned in 1935 by Leyb Malakh, i......more

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Studying three tragic authors to explore the meanings--and consequences--of modernity The emergence of a distinctly mode......more

In Drama and the Death of God, John Parker argues that the secularity often associated with Shakespeare inspired a varie......more

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This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination of po......more

This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking a......more

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a play tha......more

What has Broadway to do with Jerusalem? God on Broadway explores the theological questions cracked open by commercial th......more

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Go behind the scenes of the Great White Way with this illustrated guide to the Theater District’s hidden history--an ess......more

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This book maps the history of circus practice in colonial and post-colonial India, locating it as a unique genre within ......more

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Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School is about being Black, being British and being an actor be......more

Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for f......more

Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for f......more

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Mobilizing performance to amplify migrant domestic workers’ creative expertise Intimate inequalities exist where the emb......more

Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin’s "show trials," the public pro......more

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"Smart and entertaining . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s like a torpedo." -NPR, Fresh......more

Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves. Recognizing divergence inv......more

Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves. Recognizing divergence inv......more

Love affairs of the young men from eminent families and the courtesans who were trained to entertain (and to fleece) the......more

Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local ......more

Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local ......more

This book presents a detailed, thorough and theoretical study on experimental Xiqu performances that have taken place in......more

Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical, Hamilton 2026 Wall Calendar is a celebration of the most popular theatri......more

The celebrated poet and playwright Murray Mednick recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood in the Catskills t......more

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Stanislavsky and Mindfulness synthesises the two disciplines of acting and mindfulness focusing on elemental concepts fr......more

Monuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor presents a cultural history of the Factory ......more

Monuments Askew: An Elliptical History of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor presents a cultural history of the Factory ......more

In this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new ......more

AI, AR, and VR in Theatre and Performance investigates the cutting-edge application of evolving digital technologies wit......more

AI, AR, and VR in Theatre and Performance investigates the cutting-edge application of evolving digital technologies wit......more

Urban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex field produced in more than sixteen major lang......more

Urban theater took shape in postindependence India as a large and complex field produced in more than sixteen major lang......more

Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ’traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It ana......more

This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska......more

This book presents a contextualised volume of memoirs penned by the pioneering Polish-Yiddish actor Ester-Rokhl Kaminska......more

In this volume you will find contributions on transnational European drama of the early modern period, featuring a range......more

The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interaction, multisensory experiences that can be understood internation......more

This monograph examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday perform......more

Actor Trainers on Acting is a comprehensive, diverse and forward-thinking examination of the craft of acting written by ......more

Actor Trainers on Acting is a comprehensive, diverse and forward-thinking examination of the craft of acting written by ......more

The book examines how early twentieth century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States. ......more

Staging the Ghost Story is the first book to offer a critical appraisal of the centuries-long relationship between the g......more

This introduction to queer theatre and performance in the United States explores the pioneering artists that have shaped......more

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This is a new text, commentary, and translation of Plautus’ most challenging and uproarious farce, the Casina. Equipped ......more

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focus......more

Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage is the first major work to explore and analyse the popular ’extra-theat......more

In recent years there has been a shift in how diversity and representation are discussed in the German cultural sector. ......more

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From Scantily Clad Women to Impassioned Suffragist Speeches Virginia City boomed in the nineteenth century, with thousan......more

Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed......more

Stanislavsky’s Use of Improvisation is the first work that brings together material across Stanislavsky’s entire career ......more

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discoun......more

Death in modern theatre offers a unique account of modern Western theatre, focusing on the ways in which dramatists and ......more

First published in 1977, The Plays of Edward Bond offers help and stimulation to readers and theatre-goers who want to k......more

Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden recesses......more

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offeri......more