Performance Art

First Published in 1997. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monograp...

Few playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare.First published in 1992, this collection of 30...

What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining? What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate emotional attachment...

An absorbing and original addition to Shakespeareana, this handbook of production is for all lovers of Shakespeare whether producer, player, schola...

These studies take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of the studies deal with casting - doubling, chorus and the crowd, the star o...

Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough a...

Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth’s reign....

David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "Germ...

Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conc...

William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most mod...

This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange...

Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conc...

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Al...

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love'...

David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "Germ...

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in contemporary art and performance. In his frequently bloody portrayals of life, death, crisis and fortitude in the ...

There have been many books published on acting, actor training, and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever ...

This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together cont...

"newARTtheatre's greatest value may be that of a historical document of the understanding of a specific set of performance practices in its own tim...

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and el...

"If you haven't read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now! This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, ...

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating ...

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating ...

This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The a...

The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some ...

This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and tech...

The first book in the field to explore the links between theories of globalization and surveillance, bipower and biopolitics, performance and theat...

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies ...

Historically Informed Performance, or HIP, has become an influential and exciting development for scholars, musicians, and audiences alike. Yet it ...

This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly becom...

Over the last forty years, French director Ariane Mnouchkine and her theater collective, Le Théâtre du Soleil, have devised a form of research and ...

This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly becom...

Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and polit...

Light and space, transparency and beauty were the ideals in the art of Adolf Luther (1912–1990). More than many another artist, his numerous light ...

Spoken Word in the UK is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK – its origins and development, its performe...

The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff ...

This volume explores the constitutive role played by space in the performance of Kutiyattam. The only surviving form of Sanskrit theatre, Kutiyatta...

The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national b...

This book focuses on the artistic process, creativity and collaboration, and personal approaches to creation and ideation, in making digital and el...

Harlem’s 125th Street is a marker of 20th century urban experience, a thoroughfare that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, ...

Identity and Diversity in New Music: The New Complexities aims to enrich the discussion of how musicians and educators can best engage with audienc...

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved...

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved...

This book is an investigation into church music through the lens of performance theory, both as a discipline and as a theoretical framework. Schola...

Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and polit...