Theater Studies

What goes on inside a great narrator to make them great? This ground-breaking work answers this question by exploring the psychophysical aspect of ...

It shouldnt surprise us that politicians, clerics, rock singers as well as actors queue up to train their voices under the supervision of Patsy Rod...

Want to be the next Andy Serkis as Gollum in Lord of the Rings? Or Zoe Saldana in Avatar? How about Seth MacFarlane in Ted? Or do you want to star ...

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view. Inside the walls, imprisoned people all over...

Offering a radical re-evaluation of current approaches to performer training, this is a text that equips readers with a set of new ways of thinking...

This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of the work of many of the most innovative and important British theatre companies fro...

What do you do if you find yourself weeping in the stalls? How should you react to Jude Law's trousers or David Tennant's hair? Are you prepared to...

Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influentia...

How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth?...

Introduction to Arts Management offers a unique, dynamic and savvy guide to managing a performing or visual arts organization, be that an arts cent...

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects (Second Edition) analyzes and explains traditiona...

Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 This book uses digital media theory to explore contemp...

New Monologues for Women features forty monologues from plays published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama recently. The monologues are selected by the ed...

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods a...

Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present, 2nd edition, is a guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical pr...

Originating in the conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2009, this collection of essays includes a range of innovative papers from acr...

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest nam...

When Derek Coller decided to pay tribute to his late friend - the author, biographer, discographer and researcher, Bert Whyatt - he looked for a co...

This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include bot...