Theater Studies

Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement. Performance tours ha...

This volume seeks to instigate a discussion about dementia in theatre. The discussions in this book borrow from the literature on dementias represe...

This structural account of independent performing arts in Europe is complimented by an analysis of the challenging social situation within the fiel...

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY...

This book focuses on a rising generation of female storytellers, analysing their innovation in interdisciplinary collaboration, and their creation ...

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliber...

Richard Schechner, Lee Breuer, and Anne Bogart share a spirit of profound adventure and that adventure is the redefinition of theatre itself. The...

This volume assesses the accomplishments of three mid-20th-century, North American stage directors: Harold Clurman, Orson Welles, and Margo Jones. ...

George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, and Harold (Hal) Prince were trailblazing figures who helped shape and define the Broadway musical over the course...

This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist ide...

This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards. Their commitment to staging new works, which often...

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his ...

In the early 1930s, during his first years of exile and 20 years before the publication of his seminal work To the Actor, Michael Chekhov made his ...

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to att...

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assas...

This volume focuses on three artists who embrace media and technology as essential elements of their theatrical expression: Elizabeth LeCompte, Pin...

This volume assesses the work of Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, and Robert Wilson, three artists who have revolutionized the craft of directing an...

The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on the art of the mise en scène from the perspective of leading Argentinian theatre director Rubén Sz...

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatric...

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Val...

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fieldings forgery of an actors biography, the book contends that s...

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical a...

Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays is a play anthology that maps the impact of emotional, social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the quali...

Gesellschaftsdiagnosen durchkreuzen die Soziologiegeschichte in sehr unterschiedlichen Formen. Während sich geschichtsphilosophische Traditionslini...