Theatre Direction & Production

Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history – decadent p...

'Only what is open and searching is active and alive. You, the actor, must learn to find security in insecurity, certainty in uncertainty, to trust...

Keynesian Economics, Free Market Capitalism, Monetarism, Game Theory and the Invisible Hand. Sure, you know what they mean. That is, you've certain...

When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theorie...

The Production of King Oedipus is a masterful behind-the-scenes account of the production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex at the Festival Theatre Stratfo...

Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfe...

How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary ...

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural hi...

Newly available in paperback, this is a detailed description of the intensive work process involved in the making of Toy Symphony, a play by Michae...

I have a boy. He is across the border, I know he is. A few miles between. The same stars Shine on him Summer 1947. Sixteen million people are on t...

In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across...

Space: it’s everywhere, all around, a given. It’s abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we u...

How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his ...

You may be a student, or just starting out in the theatre profession, or an actor contemplating a switch to directing, or anyone dreaming of a life...

Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland an elderly and sick Aldridge p...

How do you choose a musical to direct that suits your amateur theatre group’s needs? How do you run an open and fair audition process and cast a sh...

Dramatism and Musical Theater: Experiments in Rhetorical Performance is an innovative workbook for both students and teachers in advanced communica...

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

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

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 ...

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