​This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial in......more

Interest in performance movement, and specifically physical theatre , has never been greater, within the classroom, aca......more

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America’s third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a boroug......more

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the......more

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclus......more

This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoe......more

This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their d......more

Migrations of Concepts brings together the results of an experimental research on the migration of philosophical concept......more

This book analyzes Shakespeare’s use of biblical allusions and evocation of doctrinal topics in Hamlet, Measure for Meas......more

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of......more

Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a dynamic response to recent societal and entertainment industry changes, focusing on ......more

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy & Casting the Witch for Stage & Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type......more

Borrowing concepts from cognitive philosophy and bringing them into a conversation with critical theory, Gareth White sh......more

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical ......more

An examination of neoliberal ideology’s ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on......more

In Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexic......more

In Sonic Strategies, author Christina Baker highlights the tactics employed by contemporary performance artists in Mexic......more

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

Chekhov often said that ’I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time’, a surprising claim, g......more

"Chekhov often said that ’I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time.’ This literary-biogra......more

"Only Idle Chatter" contains over 65 texts ranging from historical insights to production details, from personal reflect......more

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This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers. This study explores ......more

This edited collection investigates the myriad ways in which disability performance travels in a globalized world. Disab......more

This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations o......more

This book is a compendium of resources largely by and for artists and scholars interested in engaging in conversations o......more

Alan Strachan’s fascinating biography shares the adventures of Bernard Miles and the creation of London’s Mermaid Theatr......more

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related......more

In this book, dramaturg Tom Bryant shares with readers and writers his insights into the process of historical adaptatio......more

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This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case stud......more

This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th cen......more

Many of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) plays Paul Gagliardi analyzes in All Play and No Work feature complex portraya......more

This collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre The......more

Available in English for the first time, The Bodies of Others investigates, through a series of close readings of severa......more

A collection of incisive investigations into the ways that 21st-century British theatre works with - and through - crisi......more

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and r......more

First Published in 1951, A Soviet Theatre Sketch Book presents Joseph Macleod’s take on Russian Theatre in a semi-fictio......more

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisa......more

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens of improvisa......more

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how ......more

This volume examines the intersection of political power and religion during the presidency of Donald Trump through an e......more

Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D’Annunzio: Modernist Playwrights challenges the general resistance in scholarship and......more

For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia......more

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fi......more

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fi......more

This is an unprecedented collection of three newly translated Yiddish plays written by women in the period from 1880 to ......more

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period’s anxieties about......more

Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period’s anxieties about......more

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZI......more

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they ......more

This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theatre during the Sixties and Seventie......more

This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and phi......more

Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies......more

Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies......more

This book is a guide to one hundred plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis......more

’All you have is yourself, no words, no script in hand, no music to dance to, nothing to hide behind. It was just me - t......more

’All you have is yourself, no words, no script in hand, no music to dance to, nothing to hide behind. It was just me - t......more

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

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor’s Work by Konstantin Stani......more

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which has long......more

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated and pe......more

This monograph centres on the history of musical theatre in a space of cultural significance for British identity, namel......more

This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and perf......more

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outs......more

This book examines the performance strategies used by contemporary Iranian artists and activists to reimagine "Iranian-n......more

This is the first comprehensive guide to British theatre’s engagement with the First World War over the last century, fr......more

"This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical out......more

As a director, author, actor, and educator, Frank Galati has been a prominent American artist since the 1980s and contin......more

Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice explores the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical performanc......more

Blending a behind-the-scenes history about New York City’s Public Theater with an engrossing account of her life working......more

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A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman b......more

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman b......more