Theatre Studies books

A must-read for aspiring actors, An Actor Prepares is an essential guide to acting and character performance, written...  Read More >>

This book analyses how artists work through and reflect upon processes that together form a posthumanist condition....  Read More >>

Starborn: Inside the Celebrity Baby Boom of 2025 pulls back the velvet curtain on one of the most dazzling cultural...  Read More >>

This play is absurd. It's hilariously funny, yet it has its serious moments. Maria Callas, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,...  Read More >>

What can we learn about the history of the AIDS epidemic through the lens of Broadway performance and community?...  Read More >>

The first critical companion to the world of multi-Tony Award-winning American musical theatre practitioner Jason...  Read More >>

Song Sung Blue (2025) is more than a movie - it is a deeply emotional journey built on real love, real struggle,...  Read More >>

The one-stop guide to dressing as your favourite character - includes information on wig styling, makeup and contour,...  Read More >>

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How are theatre and performance makers seeking to address social inequalities and support political change through...  Read More >>

The first critical companion to the world of multi-Tony Award-winning American musical theatre practitioner Jason...  Read More >>

What can we learn about the history of the AIDS epidemic through the lens of Broadway performance and community?...  Read More >>

CDE STUDIES (GENERAL EDITOR: ANETTE PANKRATZ) The book series is dedicated to contemporary anglophone playwrights...  Read More >>

There are performers who shine brightly, and then there are those who pull you closer without ever raising their...  Read More >>

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This book explores neurodiversity in the performing arts through personal stories of artists navigating training...  Read More >>

La Maîtresse est une comédie en un acte écrite par Jules Renard et créée en 1896. Dans cette pièce brève, fine et...  Read More >>

Witty, fearless, and unmistakably modern, Fanny Fern turned everyday life into art. Writing in the mid-1800s-when...  Read More >>

Directeur du Théâtre National de La Colline de 2016 à 2026, Wajdi Mouawad est un dramaturge et metteur en scène...  Read More >>

From the musical director of Rent comes a thirtieth-anniversary account of how Broadway's iconic grunge rock show...  Read More >>

These three plays tell a fascinating and heartbreaking story, introduce a new playwright (Laura Kieler) to the world,...  Read More >>

Practitioner Perspectives on Dance Research is a collection of accounts from scholars, educators, practitioners...  Read More >>

Carlo Boso is one of the foremost exponents of Commedia dell’Arte in the contemporary performance world, having...  Read More >>

""There's a scene in The Men's Room, written and directed by Joshua James, where a gaggle of male buddies, having...  Read More >>