Theater Studies

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...