Theatre Studies books

The cultural and scientific significance of animal magnetism as performance. The long nineteenth century bears...  Read More >>

What begins as a simple joke on a lonely highway turns into something far bigger than anyone expected. From the...  Read More >>

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SHOW READY: The Artist's Guide to Stage Presence, Sound, Rehearsal, and Professional Performance By CORNELIUS ""OG...  Read More >>

Michael Rudman helped shape British theatre-from provincial playhouses to the bright lights of the National Theatre,...  Read More >>

Bloody Broadway - Plays of Menace, Murder and Mystery - Volume II 1930-1960  Read More >>

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre is a collection of Michal Kobialka’s essays, written between 1986...  Read More >>

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many...  Read More >>

Bloody Broadway - Plays of Menace, Murder and Mystery - Volume II 1930-1960  Read More >>

Intimate Commentaries on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre is a collection of Michal Kobialka’s essays, written between 1986...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the transformative role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 5— Gender Equality....  Read More >>

The first collection to investigate how schizoanalysis provides new ways of doing performance and how performance...  Read More >>

This play is absurd. It's hilariously funny, yet it has its serious moments. Six men whose voices shaped the world...  Read More >>

This book examines U.S. drama's role in the Culture Wars through academic plays like Oleanna and God Kinda Looks...  Read More >>

What does light reveal-and what does it conceal? In the theatre of Tennessee Williams, truth is never simple. Illusion,...  Read More >>

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Unveiling the Terror: A Deep Dive into Passenger (2026) Are you ready to experience a chilling and innovative horror...  Read More >>

Volume 44 features award-winning research, queer and trans narratives, and sixteen insightful book reviews shaping...  Read More >>

The inaugural volume of a set of Judith Malina's newly reissued and never-before-published diaries, recounting her...  Read More >>

This volume of Judith Malina's previously-unpublished diaries recounts for the first time a pivotal decade in her...  Read More >>

The final collection of Judith Malina's previously unpublished diaries in this canonical four-volume set, in which...  Read More >>

The newly republished diaries of Judith Malina from the critical period of 1968-1969, recounting her evolving artistic...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>