Theatre: individual actors & directors books

Examines the notion of theatricality in relation to film, theatre, art, and contemporary media  Read More >>

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

Structured by practitioner and arranged in chronological order, this much-needed book brings together the foundational...  Read More >>

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Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond steps beyond the myth of the all-male stage, centring...  Read More >>

This series of passionate and well-researched essays speaks to the situation of Black artists on the French stage,...  Read More >>

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The first in-depth study of the career of Shakespearean ‘star’ actor and theatrical impresario, Richard Burbage....  Read More >>

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The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its...  Read More >>

With warmth and compassion, Jill shares her own experiences of loss – and helps you through the most difficult time...  Read More >>

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market...  Read More >>

Draws on over twenty years of scholarship during Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with...  Read More >>

Drawing on interview material, current scholarship and documents from the Ku Na'uka and SPAC archives, this book...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical...  Read More >>

This volume assesses the accomplishments of three mid-20th-century, North American stage directors: Harold Clurman,...  Read More >>

This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards. Their commitment...  Read More >>

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the...  Read More >>

George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, and Harold (Hal) Prince were trailblazing figures who helped shape and define the...  Read More >>

This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped...  Read More >>

This volume assesses the work of Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, and Robert Wilson, three artists who have revolutionized...  Read More >>

Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition...  Read More >>