Arts / Arts de la Scène

A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the Future, Evidence of the Past

de Judie Christie, Richard Gough & Daniel Peter Watt

Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews,...

Broadway: An Encyclopedia

de Ken Bloom

This volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information,...

Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia

de Robert S. Wistrich

At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention...

Theatre Histories: An Introduction

de Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie & Gary Jay Williams

This new edition of  the innovative and  widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers overviews of theatre and drama in many world cultures and periods together with case studies demonstrating...

Getting Into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

de Ellen Donkin

Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Ellen Donkin relates...

Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics

de Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work....

Performing the Body/Performing the Text

de Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson Nfa & Andrew Stephenson

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism...

Theatre/Archaeology

de Mike Pearson & Michael Shanks

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly...

Technical Design Solutions for Theatre: The Technical Brief Collection Volume 1

de Ben Sammler & Don Harvey

The Technical Brief is a collection of single-focus articles on technical production solutions, published three times a year by the prestigious Yale School of Drama. The primary objective of the publication...

Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present: (The Focal Press Costume Topics Series)

de Allison Lowery

Let Historical Wig Styling be your guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for your productions and events. Chapters begin with artwork of historic figures that influenced the look of each...

Acting Power: The 21st Century Edition

de Robert Cohen

'Robert Cohen's book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.' - David Krasner, Emerson College

'This...

Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque

de Mary Ann Frese Witt

Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque. It refines and probes these concepts through close analyses and comparisons of seventeenth...

Lighting Control: Technology and Applications

de Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson's comprehensive volume covers all aspects of lighting control systems. It starts with two foundation chapters outlining the basics of electricity, light and electronics as they apply to lighting...

Theatre for Children: A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing, and Acting

de David Wood & Janet Grant

David Wood has been called by The London Times the national children's dramatist. Presenting theatre for children as a seperate art form, Mr. Wood analyzes the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences...

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

de James Thomas

Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers applies directly to the experience of theatrical production; students will immediately be able to relate the concepts and procedures they learn to their artistic...

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances

de John C. Greene

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s...

Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820: A Calendar of Performances

de John C. Greene

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s...

Byron and the Discourses of History

de Carla Pomarè

In her study of the relationship between Byron's lifelong interest in history and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on how Byron's writings interact with a variety of historiographical...

Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe

de Verena Theile & Andrew D. McCarthy

Engaging with fiction and history- and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires and apprehensions- this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European...

The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies

de Gregory Waller

In this book, Gregory A. Waller shows why the vampire continues to fascinate us in film and fiction. Waller focuses upon a series of interrelated novels, stories, plays, films, and made-for-television movies:...