Theatre: Individual Actors & Directors

Drawing on interview material, current scholarship and documents from the Ku Na'uka and SPAC archives, this book is the first major appraisal of Mi...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

Dame Maggie Smith stands as a remarkable example of the concomitance in a performers career of typecasting and characterisation, that is the abil...

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

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritu...

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...

This book is a conversation about acting with noted actor, director and educator Cynthia Henderson. Cynthia takes the reader on a journey to the he...

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in ...

Alfred Brendel und Peter Gülke pflegen die Kunst des Interpretierens auf einzigartige Weise: Brendel als weltberühmter Pianist, der auch Bücher übe...

The first English-language translation of the 1968 activist play about inequality and access to education In The Inheritor, surrealist imagery and ...

This book provides key critical tools to significantly broaden the readers perception of theatre and performance history: in line with posthuman th...

This book takes choreographer William Forsythes choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundam...

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adapt...

Every theater director will oversee a new play process in their career: here is what to expect and how to prepare.Drawing from over 20 years of exp...

The fifty-year history of the Mee-Ow Show at Northwestern University and its influence on contemporary comedy In the fall of 1973, two students at ...

A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled ac...

In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (18961948), mythologised as an icon of failu...

'You had to decide to let yourself be turned upside down, you had to accept to see the idea you had forged about yourself progressively shatter.' I...

The greatest American dramatist of our age - Evening Standard In this third volume of collected works, three of Arthur Millers stage plays from ...

Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh was a founder actress of the Abbey Theatre and its first leading lady on its opening in 1904, when she played the title role ...

Vivien Leigh was one of the greatest film and theatrical stars of the twentieth century. Her Oscar-winning performances in Gone with the Wind and A...