Theatre Direction & Production

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...

This volume assesses the work of Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, and Robert Wilson, three artists who have revolutionized the craft of directing an...

The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on the art of the mise en scène from the perspective of leading Argentinian theatre director Rubén Sz...

What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twin...

Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection reveals the innova...

This book draws on over twenty years scholarship from Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized you...

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators,...

The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators,...

This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully...

The author examines how new music scores with extended playing techniques call for new practice structures. YouTube access to basic instructional v...

The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide-rangingperspective on how scholars and artists are currently re-evaluati...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowski’s work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissue...

Women Writing and Directing in the USA: A Stage of Our Own features interviews with some of the most successful theatre artists currently working o...

Le Théâtre du Soleil traces the company’s history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their ...

Le Théâtre du Soleil traces the company’s history from a group of young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling to match their ...

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time. It is emblematic of the work of many European theatrical artists in the early...

For whom does the actor perform? To answer this foundational question of the actor’s art, Grotowski scholar Kris Salata explores acting as a self-r...

The book contains three accounts of five public speeches and conversations with the public of two outstanding figures of theatre and performance, J...

In 1983 Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre, with Chinese actors. This was an entirely new expe...

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance sc...