Theatre Studies books

This open access book reframes performance and pedagogy through their shared ‘objects’ and lays the foundation for...  Read More >>

A comprehensive examination into the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, under its then director Peter Cheeseman,...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth...  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

This inspirational book, with its offering of first-hand accounts from members of the Living Theatre Troupe, gives...  Read More >>

Intimate Inequalities: Performing Migrant Domestic Work mobilizes performance as both an analytic lens and a method...  Read More >>

Unlock the art of stand-up comedy with a 21-day step-by-step guide to crafting your unique voice and stage presence....  Read More >>

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

Commedia dell’Arte: Contemporary Practitioners offers insights into the visions, methods, practices, and impact...  Read More >>

Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance...  Read More >>

Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali—the...  Read More >>

With this book, new and aspiring arts managers and administrators will gain a real-world education and long-lasting...  Read More >>

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

The Dancer's Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Navigating Your Dance Career helps dancers in any stage of their...  Read More >>

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A raw, lyrical memoir of survival, creativity, and reclaiming voice. In No Country for Daughters, actor, writer...  Read More >>

Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient Mediterranean: An Interpretive Approach brings...  Read More >>

With this book, new and aspiring arts managers and administrators will gain a real-world education and long-lasting...  Read More >>

The Dancer's Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide for Navigating Your Dance Career helps dancers in any stage of their...  Read More >>

As literacy expanded in Classical Athens, myths became increasingly fixed through textualization, fostering a more...  Read More >>

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This book offers an an innovative re-examination of the notion of 'process' in contemporary performance-making,...  Read More >>