Theater Studies

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these t...

Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in ...

The Projection Designers Toolkit is an insiders guide to the world of professional projection design, serving as a reference for the planning and e...

The A to Z of Arts Management, Second Edition covers 97 topics about the management of arts and cultural organisations.Each section offers a theore...

Media Servers for Lighting Programmers, Second Edition, is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers the digital med...

Media Servers for Lighting Programmers, Second Edition, is the reference guide for lighting programmers working with media servers the digital med...

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritu...

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

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socio...

The Freelancer's Guide to Corporate Event Design is the only book that will get the reader up to speed on the ever-changing and growing industry of...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socio...

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early...

Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examin...

Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examin...

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdezs exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovato...

This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth cent...

Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning builds on the vocabulary of simple action verbs to generate an entire set of practical ...

Stage Management Basics, second edition, offers a deep dive into the basics of stage management for theatre, dance, and opera productions.Without a...

First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and exten...

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actors art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-re...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ...

The Heart of Light: A Holistic Primer for a Life and Career in Lighting Design and Production is a fresh look into the ever-evolving fields of ligh...

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this ...

In this comprehensive handbook author, makeup artist, and educator Christine Sciortino offers a detailed introduction to the conceptual foundations...