Theatre: Technical & Background Skills

Costume Design for Performance offers a detailed insight into the creative process behind designing costumes for the performing arts, including the...

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre's wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands t...

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre's wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands t...

This book is among the first to consider the subject of mad auralities in theatre and performance, asking: what does it mean to hear and listen mad...

Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological ...

Together with other leading set design and theatre talents, McLane invites us into the immersive and exhilarating experience of building the striki...

Painting for Performance removes the mystery from painting and gives beginners the terms, tools, and techniques to approach their unpainted set wit...

Essentials of Period Style: A Sourcebook for Stage and Production Designers covers the visual, social, and political dynamics of multiple epochs an...

Character Sketch outlines a theory of costume rendering that explores how a designer conceptualizes and creates a character on the page. Beginning ...

Mask Making Techniques: Creating 3-D Characters from 2-D Designs for Theatre, Cosplay, Film, and TV, introduces and demonstrates a variety of mask ...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowskis work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued...

Throughout the twentieth century, live theatre has been challenged by a range of new media based on increasingly sophisticated technologies. In Sta...

In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualization for the Entertainment World, Patricia Woodbridge, a highly experienced art director of...

Dress as though your life depends on it, or dont bother.(Leigh Bowery, 1985)Outlaws dives into the anarchic energy of Londons 1980s club scene, cel...

Fitting and Pattern Alteration: A Multi-Method Approach to the Art of Style Selection, Fitting, and Alteration, Fourth Edition, shows readers how t...

The Art of Stagecraft: Reflections on Design and Creation in Theatre is a thoughtful examination of the intersection of design, art, and the modern...

The Art of Stagecraft: Reflections on Design and Creation in Theatre is a thoughtful examination of the intersection of design, art, and the modern...

18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c16801790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers...

Dyeing for Entertainment encompasses a wide range of methods of theatrical painting and dyeing to create beautiful artistic products for theatre, f...

Theatre Masks Out Side In examines masks from different angles and perspectives, combining the history, design, construction, and use of masks into...

This ground-breaking text returns in its second edition, unlocking the insider secrets and proven, time-tested methods to succeed as a professional...

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop, Execute, and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance offers methods and techniques for delivering this specia...

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments...

Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life brings together over 20 years of scholarly work by dancer, educator, and scholar Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones on th...

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting offers pattern drafting instructions for mens most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in...

A Tailoring Guide to Pattern Drafting offers pattern drafting instructions for mens most popular tailored garment styles from 1850 to 1900, used in...

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...

Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting d...

Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting d...

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop, Execute, and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance offers methods and techniques for delivering this specia...

Digital Design for Custom Textiles: Patterns as Narration for Stage and Film is a beginner's guide for creating custom textile patterns for perform...

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...

This book charts a twenty-year period in theatre design that maps the growth of large-scale adaptable theatre through Charcoalblues work, alongside...

Body painter extraordinaire Chris Peck, aka Rainbowskinz, shows you the fundamental techniques he uses to create an infinite number of extraordinar...