Theatre Studies books

With the aim of bringing back to life an era and its people, the book serves as an introduction to the roots of...  Read More >>

The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon. The Challenge of...  Read More >>

Three-time Governor General's Literary Awardshortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani's critically acclaimed...  Read More >>

Places backstage workers in the spotlight to acknowledge their essential roles in creating Broadway magic  Read More >>

The first book to examine staging all the violence in Shakespeare.  Read More >>

Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals...  Read More >>

With the aim of bringing back to life an era and its people, the book serves as an introduction to the roots of...  Read More >>

Would a theatregoer have gotten bored in the eighteenth century? Our grasp of text, performance, and audience is...  Read More >>

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A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color provides readers with the skills and knowledge to create coherent color...  Read More >>

Che was not simply a consistent revolutionary. He was much more than that. He was the conscience of social revolution....  Read More >>

Based on Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, in this new English version by prizewinning playwright Richard...  Read More >>

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Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse, significant, and often under-researched historical and developmental...  Read More >>

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When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the...  Read More >>

"In twenty-four chapters David Kaplan offers ideas, opinions, theories, and facts for someone who wants to be a...  Read More >>

This volume examines national policies developed for the culture industry and practice of Chinese theatre from 1949...  Read More >>

Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural...  Read More >>

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"In twenty-four chapters David Kaplan offers ideas, opinions, theories, and facts for someone who wants to be a...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2003 as a comprehensive history of the previous twenty-five years in musical theater, on...  Read More >>

Drawing deeply on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and of collaboration with a war reporter,...  Read More >>

Menander’s Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’, is one of his most popular plays to have survived from classical times,...  Read More >>