Theatre Studies books

Helene Hanff's fascinating and funny memoir about attempting to become a famous Broadway playwright. Prior to the...  Read More >>

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This book provides cultural leaders, both emerging and established, with actionable tools to measure outcomes, communicate...  Read More >>

This book examines musical variety clowns performing racial impersonations across four touring circuits: African...  Read More >>

This book provides cultural leaders, both emerging and established, with actionable tools to measure outcomes, communicate...  Read More >>

Storytelling Research Methods establishes the methods, subject matter, tonal qualities, and philosophical underpinnings...  Read More >>

Performing Waste offers groundbreaking insights into the vibrant...  Read More >>

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training Second Edition is a beginner’s guide...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

This wide-ranging handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking history that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially and racially...  Read More >>

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training Second Edition is a beginner’s guide...  Read More >>

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Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Exploring the role of amateur theatre associations in 19th-century Germany, this study demonstrates how their practices...  Read More >>

An exploration of modernism's influence on the bohemian and counter-cultural movements in theatre, popular culture...  Read More >>

In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood...  Read More >>

The first step-by-step guide to the innovative Pulse Approach, which gives theatre makers tools for improvisation...  Read More >>