Theatre Studies books

I was born at the tail end of a unique and delightful era and raised on one of the last showboats to struggle for...  Read More >>

These essays on Brazilian performance culture comprise the first English-language book to study the varied manifestations...  Read More >>

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections...  Read More >>

A pioneer of stage naturalism, David Belasco has come to be universally recognized as one of the first important...  Read More >>

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The definitive guide to designing for theatre - by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name....  Read More >>

Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical...  Read More >>

This book examines in specific detail every musical show that opened on Broadway during the 1940s. Included in each...  Read More >>

Royal Court: International is the first full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department....  Read More >>

Early 20th century non-commercial theaters emerged as hubs of social transformation on both sides of the Atlantic....  Read More >>

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As early as the 1840s, playwrights incorporated evolutionary theory into their work, reacting to a scientific advancement...  Read More >>

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama...  Read More >>

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge....  Read More >>

This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from...  Read More >>

This book charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city -...  Read More >>

How did Brazilian theater survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change once the regime...  Read More >>

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This is the second part of a four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 - 1968, based on previously...  Read More >>

This is the third part of Steve Nicholson's four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900 until 1968,...  Read More >>

A companion to UEP's Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (now in its third reprint). London's Grand Guignol...  Read More >>

Since The ThEAtre du Grand-Guignol closed its doors forty years ago, the genre has been overlooked by critics and...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern...  Read More >>

The first book to document grass roots popular theatres which developed from within the working class Republican...  Read More >>