Theater Studies

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods a...

This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within c...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowskis work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued...

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition...

The refusal on the part of academic critics to recognize the primacy of farce in Moliere's theatre is contradicted by wide spread theatrical pracit...

Throughout the twentieth century, live theatre has been challenged by a range of new media based on increasingly sophisticated technologies. In Sta...

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that years Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant retu...

Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brechts theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brechts...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World, Patricia Woodbridge, a highly experienced art director of...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of Shakespeares plays in whi...

Practitioners and critics alike often attribute great authenticity to documentary theatre, casting it as a salutary alternative not only to corpora...

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Arti...

La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Arti...

Reframing Acting in the Digital Age: Nimbly Scaling Actor Training in the Academy refocuses how actors work in TV, film, and stage. In this refresh...

Movements of Interweaving is a rich collection of essays exploring the concept of interweaving performance cultures in the realms of movement, danc...

Restoration Staging 166074 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts....

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by cor...

Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians provides the tools for individuals and organizations to achieve a heal...

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers ...