Theater Studies

This interdisciplinary volume offers new insights into the connections between populism and performance. As a driving force of the contemporary lef...

This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on...

Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage ...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how acto...

This collection provides an in-depth exploration of surtitling for theatre and its potential in enhancing accessibility and creativity in both the ...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

This book investigates the practices of reconstructing and representing performance art and their power to shape this art form and our understandin...

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ...

Heralded as the father of Indian Creative Dance, and Indias cultural ambassador, Uday Shankar (19001977) was a dancer and choreographer who created...

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is perfo...

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. ...