Theater Studies

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexualit...

Lights. Glamour. Action! Take a peek into the cultural phenomenon that is Drag, in this lusciously illustrated guide to the history of the phenomen...

Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 ...

This volume provides a fresh assessment of the pioneering practices of theatre directors Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Eugenio Barba, whose work...

This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exempli...

This volume assesses the contributions of André Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and trai...

In this volume leading scholars assess the contributions of Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner and Harley Granville Barker to European theatre. Their w...

This volume examines the work of Joan Littlewood, Giorgio Strehler and Roger Planchon, demonstrating how these three directors take up key aestheti...

This volume examines the work of directors Jacques Copeau, Theodore Komisarjevsky and Tyrone Guthrie. It explores in detail many of the directors k...

This volume foregrounds Pina Bausch, Romeo Castellucci and Jan Fabre as three leading directors who have each left an indelible mark on post-war Eu...

This volume offers a compelling account of Jean-Louis Barrault, Ariane Mnouchkine and Peter Stein, who not only won international recognition as di...

In one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, once-i...

Commemorating over 75 years of Broadway greatness with never-before told stories, rare photos from the American Theatre Wings' archives, and interv...

In Manavs world, memories are like little birds perched upon the windowsill of time. In his world there are no boundaries between thoughts and real...

What links the popular songs You'll Never Walk Alone, Send in the Clowns, Memory and I Am What I Am? They all originated in Broadway musicals. S...

Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervent...

Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play...

This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner ...