Theatre: Technical & Background Skills

This is the first major collection of critical responses to performance lighting and includes contributions from award-winning lighting designers, ...

Looking for a job in the theatre and entertainment industry can be daunting, especially when you are newly entering the work market. How do you tak...

For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate s...

With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in w...

This practical guide covers all aspects of stage lighting equipment, special effects, lighting a performance space and lighting design. It is well ...

The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own words. Curated stories from over 75 interviews and in...

A Beginners Guide to Special Makeup Effects, Volume 2 builds on the foundations covered in A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, ...

Cosplay, born from the fusion of costume and play, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games i...

King Henry IV, Part I: The 30-Minute Shakespeare combines comedy, tragedy, and history into a rollicking six-scene drama performable in a half hour...

Loves Labors Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed to...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Get young people excited about Shakespeare! The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The co...

Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five scenes from this enduring tragedy. The Ghost of Hamlets father calls for vengeance, and Hamlet uses ...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lears banishment of Cordelia, the plot a...

A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator.Library Journal ...

A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespeare scene.—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Librar...

As You Like It: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents seven captivating scenes from this merry play. Rosalind, disguised as a man (“Ganymede), “teache...

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece. The action begins as the soothsayer war...

The Comedy of Errors: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five raucous scenes from this extravaganza of mistaken identity. The abridgement begins wit...

The Tempest: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers eight scenes from this rich comedy. Beginning with the magical storm and shipwreck, this adaptation i...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handels Saracen...

A sumptuously illustrated survey of the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia in the twenty ...

This book provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of ...

What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is re...

Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. Yet there are relatively few books on the subject, and almost ...

Motion Capture in Performance explores the historical origins, properties and implications of Motion Capture. It introduces a new mode of performan...

A sparkling return to the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, where even the most fiendish of mysteries can be unlocked by a keen eye and a sharp mind... ...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...