Theater Studies

Stage Management offers readers a practical manual on how to stage manage in all theatre environments. Revered as the authoritative resource ...

Wesker brings together for the first time an assortment of theatre pieces exploring such subjects as The DNA of a Play; The Nature of Dialogue; The...

Of interest to students, academics, practitioners and theatre buffs.

I try to follow the rule laid down by perhaps the greatest translator of all, John Dryden, who maintained that a translator should and I paraphras...

Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant - The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/di...

In the wake of Irelands recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on ...

Music-hall stars such as Jack Buchanan, Charles Coburn, Harry Lauder, Dan Leno and Vesta Tilley all trod the boards at what started life as the Bri...

Bewitched star Elizabeth Montgomery was one of the most prolific and popular actresses of the twentieth century. In her more than five hundred appe...

One of the country''s top voice-over talents shares his secrets of success in an insider''s guide to the industry. Actors, broadcasters, and anyone...

The figure of Carmen has emerged as a cipher for the unfettered female artist. Dance historian and performance theorist Ninotchka Bennahum shows us...

Is this the right book for me?Wherever your theatre interests lies, this is an essential book for you. It covers a wide range of key issues, from t...

In the first book of its kind to be published in twenty years, ten award-winning and current Broadway designers five set designers, four lighting d...

From Cecil Hayter, the founder of the longest running youth theatre in London, the LOST Theatre and, together with Terry Hawes, the Southgate Opera...

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through t...

Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertio...

In Rose Eichenbaum's third work on the confluence of art making and human expression, she delves into the lives of thirty-five celebrated actors th...

Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off, 'the funniest f...

Our new short history tells the story of Newcastle's Theatre Royal from its earliest days to the magnificent 175th birthday celebrations in 2012. ...

Technical Drawing for Stage Design explains the importance of drawing in the design process, revealing how the initial two-dimensional drawing is a...

Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht''s theatre by Manfred Wekwerth, Brech...

Author Dan Richter took a year''s leave of absence as lead performer at the American Mime Theatre and teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic A...

The Art of Speech presents a dynamic path of practice leading to an experience of the Word as a living, healing and creative power. Helping to deli...

In this seminal work on a new art of speech, Rudolf and Marie Steiner demonstrate how the Word can truly be brought to life. From the authors' pers...

How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make ...