Theater Studies

Awarded QRSIG's Honerable Mention for 20212020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award WinnerArts-Based Educational Research and Qualitative Inquiry introd...

This updated fourth edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of w...

A History of the Theatre Costume Business is the first-ever comprehensive book on the subject, as related by award-winning actors and designers, an...

Now in its third edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician is a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and...

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that...

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romantici...

Actors and Audiences explores the exchanges between those on and off the stage that fill the atmosphere with energy and vitality. Caroline Heim uti...

18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c16801790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers...

Dyeing for Entertainment encompasses a wide range of methods of theatrical painting and dyeing to create beautiful artistic products for theatre, f...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

The Costume Designers Toolkit explores the wide-ranging skills required to design costumes for live performance in theatre, dance, opera, and theme...

Movement: Onstage and Off is the complete guide for actors to the most effective techniques for developing a fully expressive body. It is a compreh...

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw f...

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films, Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiate...

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

This ground-breaking text returns in its second edition, unlocking the insider secrets and proven, time-tested methods to succeed as a professional...

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

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spains fall from imperial ...

Acting Reframes presents theatre and film practitioners with a methodology for using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as a tool to aid their prac...

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

In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17...

Urban theatre can be described as theatre made with or by those whose lives are marked by the urban landscape and its social limits and possibiliti...

Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague ...

ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks is an in-depth academic account of ORLAN's pioneering art in its entirety. The book covers her career in performan...