Theater Studies

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 ...

Style: An Approach to Appreciating Theatre offers brief, readable chapters about the basics of theatre as a starting point for discussion, and prov...

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-centur...

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new...

Now in its seventh edition, Designing with Light introduces readers to the art, craft, and technology of stage lighting and media projection.The ne...

Religious practitioners and theatregoers have much in common. So much, in fact, that we can say that religion is often a theatrical phenomenon, and...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays we...

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, co...