Theatre Studies books

Across two volumes, Mike Vanden Heuvel and a strong roster of contributors present the history, processes, and achievements...  Read More >>

A practical handbook for students and actors alike, this book is an indispensable guide to understanding, reading...  Read More >>

On the 20th anniversary of artistic director Thomas Ostermeier’s time at Berlin's Schaubühne Theatre, this important...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition...  Read More >>

Proposes a practical philosophy of contemporary theatrical design that addresses all design disciplines, all theatrical...  Read More >>

Explores the theatrical anecdote’s role inthe construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture...  Read More >>

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821),...  Read More >>

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The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most...  Read More >>

Living the Audio Life details the aspects and procedures necessary for one to have a successful career in live entertainment...  Read More >>

Unions, Strikes, Shaw: ‘The Capitalism of the Proletariat’ is the first book to treat Bernard Shaw—socialist, dramatist,...  Read More >>

Explores the theatrical anecdote’s role inthe construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture...  Read More >>

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821),...  Read More >>

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With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town...  Read More >>

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This volume contains two comedies-ballets: Le Mariage force, danced as a ballet at the Louvre, then adapted as a...  Read More >>

In the libretto of Rossini's Cinderella, one of the key passages was altered to safeguard a sense of modesty. Stendhal...  Read More >>

It is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern...  Read More >>

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This innovative study sketches the physical and imaginary contours of Lavapiés, one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods....  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>