Directing in Musical Theatre offers a comprehensive guide which will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills tha......more

Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one of the most influential yet misunderstood theatrical exp......more

In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics......more

Kantor: A Biography offers the first comprehensive English-language artistic biography of the Polish visual artist, avan......more

Diagrammatical Performances’ traces some of the traditions and contemporary developments in the uses of diagrams - actua......more

Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 - North America and the Caribbean is an interactive roadmap to the acc......more

Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 - North America and the Caribbean is an interactive roadmap to the acc......more

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of China’s Cultural Revolution through the lens of the Model Works, reveal......more

It goes nearly without saying that Elizabethan England, the society that produced William Shakespeare, was dramatically ......more

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This monograph explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the US and México to expose the dire realities......more

In the early twentieth-century, Canada’s theatres were mostly controlled by Americans. As variety shows flooded these st......more

As one of the most influential contemporary film scholars, Linda Williams brought her critical feminist lens to some of ......more

An expert forensic search into the most ungraspable truths of womanhood. --Divine Angubua, NEXT Magazine Meet Lauren, a ......more

In boxing terms, it’s a knockout.--Lynn Saxberg, Ottawa Citizen Sam Langford was a fighter his whole life--inside and ou......more

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Storytelling and performance have been at the centre of Black traditions for as long as Black existence. From griots and......more

Now in its fourth edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician is a comprehensive, practical st......more

Homelessness in Performance, Art and Society investigates the contemporary context of homelessness in England and how pe......more

Homelessness in Performance, Art and Society investigates the contemporary context of homelessness in England and how pe......more

Performing Recovery explores how theatre and performance can reimagine addiction recovery as a creative and collaborativ......more

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in......more

Technology has become fully integrated into the ecologies in which we live, including our ways of making and making sens......more

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This is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly ex......more

This is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly ex......more

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth Nigh......more

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval and Tu......more

Offering a comprehensive examination into the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent under its then director Peter Cheeseman......more

With the right people around you following the same dream, can you really change the world? The sex, drugs and rock ’n’ ......more

Commedia dell’Arte: Contemporary Practitioners offers insights into the visions, methods, practices, and impact of some ......more

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This unique collection promotes and develops ’drama-in-English’, a hybrid pedagogy combining reader response theory with......more

Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and schol......more

Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and schol......more

In 1576, a young man could have attended the first performance at The Theatre, newly-built by James Burbage, the first a......more

World Theatre: The Basics presents a well-rounded introduction to non-Western theatre, exploring the history and current......more

A collection of three plays exploring the intersections of mental health, community, addiction, and masculinity, blended......more

A compelling tour of Shakespeare’s England that makes a powerful contribution to the ’authorship question’. How do we kn......more

Challenging the myths, silences, and stereotypes of motherhood through the live body in performance. Matrescence and Per......more

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An accessible and authoritative compendium of key concepts in acting, this book reveals how the craft has been understoo......more

An accessible and authoritative compendium of key concepts in acting, this book reveals how the craft has been understoo......more

How do female Chilean playwrights address historical trauma, gender critique and collective memory in post-dictatorship,......more

This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 yea......more

Short introductory books on significant theories, concepts, forms and elements of musical theatre. Adaptation in Musical......more

This book is an introduction to the exquisite world of Balinese performance and an in-depth study of specific forms and ......more

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Can you match Romeo with Juliet, King Lear with his fool and many more, in this Shakespeare-themed memory game? Shakespe......more

Costuming the Curve: Dressing Bodies of Size for the Stage, Screen, and Life is a groundbreaking and practical guide tha......more

A fascinating exploration of the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare’s beloved plays. Shakespeare’s pla......more

A revelatory look at the complex inner world of one of the twentieth century’s most beloved theatrical composers Stephen......more

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This book explores how Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet follows in the footsteps of Dante’s revival of Platonic poetry. Th......more

The Fabric of Performance: The Role and History of Textiles in Costume for Theatre and Film provides an overview of the ......more

Zombies, Werewolves, Robots, and Extraterrestrials provides a broad survey of acting theory and training technique throu......more

Zombies, Werewolves, Robots, and Extraterrestrials provides a broad survey of acting theory and training technique throu......more

Monstrous Utopias examines how monsters in performance, theatre, media, and literature reflect and subvert societal unde......more

In Stop Memorizing Your Lines, acclaimed Director and Acting coach Loren E. Chadima introduces an innovative methodology......more

In Stop Memorizing Your Lines, acclaimed Director and Acting coach Loren E. Chadima introduces an innovative methodology......more

Choosing Fabrics for Theatre: A Practical Guide to Textiles for Costume and Prop Artisans defines textiles, tools, usefu......more

This book explores the collision of worlds when an artist becomes a parent by looking at the profound ways in which pare......more

This book explores the collision of worlds when an artist becomes a parent by looking at the profound ways in which pare......more

Ricardo A. Bracho is a queer Chicano Marxist playwright from Los Angeles whose theatrical works dramatize the lives of g......more

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging represents the first comprehensive anthology to critically interrog......more

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging represents the first comprehensive anthology to critically interrog......more

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare’s time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly n......more

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare’s time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly n......more

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called ident......more

This book aims to show how a specific form of documentary research, founded in a theatre-making method labelled "real fi......more

More than forty years have passed since the publication of volume II of James Diggle’s Oxford Classical Text of Euripide......more

A collection of ritual texts, parables, and performances from one of the most singular voices in contemporary theatre. A......more