Theater Studies

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting offers pattern drafting instructions for mens most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in...

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting offers pattern drafting instructions for mens most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in...

The Birth of Modern Theatre: Rivalry, Riots, and Romance in the Age of Garrick is a vivid description of the eighteenth-century London theatre scen...

Currently in its seventeenth year and formerly published by Ashgate, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespe...

English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifeste...

Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...

In this comprehensive handbook author, makeup artist, and educator Christine Sciortino offers a detailed introduction to the conceptual foundations...

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the role of live animals on the stage, from the early modern era to the present time. The cont...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim tha...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

Women Writing and Directing in the USA: A Stage of Our Own features interviews with some of the most successful theatre artists currently working o...

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms...

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, da...

Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting d...

Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting d...

First Published in 1997. This is Volume 1, Part 1 of the Contemporary Theatre Review of 1992. It includes the proceedings of the Soviet and British...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions fac...

Performance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both histo...

The Dancing God: Staging Hindu Dance in Australia charts the sensational and historic journey of de-provincialising and popularising Hindu dance in...

Touring Theatrical Productions: An International Guide is a practical and comprehensive overview of planning, staging and closing international tou...

Stagecraft Fundamentals, Fourth Edition, is an entry-level how-to guide and reference on backstage theatre, covering every aspect of basic theatre ...

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop, Execute, and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance offers methods and techniques for delivering this specia...

The Literary Managers Toolkit is a clear and comprehensive guide to the role of the literary manager in theatre and beyond, focusing on the key ski...

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on tradit...

Digital Design for Custom Textiles: Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film is a beginner's guide for creating custom textile patterns for perform...

Le Théâtre du Soleil traces the companys history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their p...

Le Théâtre du Soleil traces the companys history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their p...

Cross-Gender China, the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research, deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-...

James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as John Ford, Ben Jonson, or Richard...

In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act ...

Progressive Perspective Drawing for Theatrical Scene Design provides theatrical scenic designers with the tools to create quick and precise perspec...

From Aristotles theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. Thi...

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affe...

Contemporary theatre, like so much of contemporary life, is obsessed with the ways in which information is detected, packaged and circulated. Runni...

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these t...

Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in ...

The Projection Designers Toolkit is an insiders guide to the world of professional projection design, serving as a reference for the planning and e...

The A to Z of Arts Management, Second Edition covers 97 topics about the management of arts and cultural organisations.Each section offers a theore...

Media Servers for Lighting Programmers, Second Edition, is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers the digital med...

Media Servers for Lighting Programmers, Second Edition, is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers the digital med...

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritu...

The Automated Lighting Programmers Handbook, fourth edition, provides respected and clear coverage of the process of programming automated lighting...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socio...

The Freelancer's Guide to Corporate Event Design is the only book that will get the reader up to speed on the ever-changing and growing industry of...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socio...

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early...

Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examin...