Theater Studies

The photograph of a stage design model is an illusion; it creates the impression of the performance having already taken place. Models have a discr...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating det...

Revised and updated edition: Coming November 2014 How to Produce A West End Show demystifies the working world of live theatre. This is an insid...

In this entertaining new title, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors, and the pioneers of the stage musical on bot...

Despite the increasing popularity of academic filmmaking programs in the United States, some of contemporary Americas most exciting film directors ...

The essential, one-stop handbook for actors, with everything you need to survive and thrive, from the team behind the internationally successful Su...

My First Play is a unique collection of pieces by playwrights, actors and theatre directors all of them regular Nick Hern Books authors in respon...

A practical guide for actors who want to find work in the corporate sector, by a veteran with over 1400 corporate events to his credit. Thousands ...

An essential guide for young people who want to work in the theatre - but aren't sure exactly what they want to do, or how to get to do it. Many y...

Why does Shakespeare write in the way he does? And how can actors and directors get the most out of his incomparable plays? In Speaking the Speech...

The Integrated Voice is a unique new approach to the understanding and training of the actor's voice. Structured as a series of practical workshop...

A truthful, personal and insightful exploration of the state of arts funding and carrying on in the face of adversity, by the renowned founder of O...

Musicals are the most popular form of stage entertainment today, with the West End and Broadway dominated by numerous long-running hits. But for ev...

A practical guide to training as an actor, helping you get the most out of drama school - and survive in the world beyond. Are you thinking of app...

An invaluable guide to the difficult arts of devising plays and directing texts, by one of the UKs leading theatre directors. Throughout a lifetim...

Many theatre practitioners think of physical theatre as one thing and text-based theatre as another. In this book, Dymphna Callery, author of Throu...

A step-by-step introduction to the key features of the Meisner Technique, including a full set of practical exercises. The Meisner Technique is at...

A unique guide to every aspect of putting on your own solo show: choosing the subject, raising the finance, booking the venue - and performing it! ...

Once upon a time there was ...a castle. This is how the intriguing fairy tale, created by the British theatre company and artists' collective WildW...

Where do we start when studying Shakespeare? With the man himself? Or with historical context? With language? Or plot? Starting Shakespeare is a li...