Theatre Studies books

In this atmospheric stage adaptation of Washington Irving's timeless ghost story, the quiet village of Sleepy Hollow...  Read More >>

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""A groundbreaking study of theatrical performance under Stalin's requirement that the arts take as their goal the...  Read More >>

Intimate Inequalities: Performing Migrant Domestic Work mobilizes performance as both an analytic lens and a method...  Read More >>

La rencontre du public theatral polonais de la capitale et la de la province avec les chefs- d'oeuvre de Jean Giraudoux,...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1963 A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw is a descriptive and critical account of Bernard Shaw’s...  Read More >>

Randia’s Quiet Theatre draws on autofiction, interviews, and performance ethnography to unravel the politics of...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.S. visit through extensive primary sources...  Read More >>

Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance...  Read More >>

Mixes experiences in art, coding, music, dance, choreography, video, and stage design. Many people relax when coding...  Read More >>

Wholehearted Voice Pedagogy: An Integrative Approach to Training Vocal Artists investigates how to develop healthy,...  Read More >>

Since Japan's Takarazuka Revue has an audience consisting mostly of women, Takarazuka creates a space for queer...  Read More >>

The Music Performers’ Lived Experiences seeks to widen this research area through close investigations of a variety...  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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This practical handbook provides guidance on how to create theatre for audiences that are neurodiverse and explores...  Read More >>

Dreams: The Power of Love, Identity, and Belonging is an insightful and thought-provoking exploration of one of...  Read More >>

Return to Nevermore: The Mystery Deepens in Season 2 of the Gothic Teen Phenomenon takes readers on a thrilling...  Read More >>

This meditation on the poetics of re-worlding follows the threads of Spiderwoman Theater's Storyweaving practice...  Read More >>

This book is devoted to tracing the variety of ways that theatre, theatricality, and performance are embedded in...  Read More >>

This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black...  Read More >>

This book explores the dramaturgy of sex in contemporary works for the stage in the social, cultural and historical...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance...  Read More >>