Theatre direction and production

Do you have to be an extrovert to succeed as an actor?

Have you been working as an actor, but want to refine your craft and take your performance to the next level?

Labyrinth 2 provides a taxonomy of the plays Don Nigro has written over the past ten years.

Is morality just what the majority say?

Michael Chekhov's classic work To the Actor has been revised and expanded by Mala Powers to explain, clearly and concisely, the essential techniques for every actor from developing a character to strengthen awareness.

Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeScenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre.

Anhand von fünf exemplarisch gewählten Inszenierungen der Wallenstein-Trilogie Schillers untersucht die Studie systematisch, wie sich die historisierende Bühnenpraxis auf dem deutschen Theater des 19.

A lapsed academic haunted by her past, and by an ambiguous angel, in the backwoods of the American South; a Midwestern widower dreams of returning to the Ireland of his youth; a heartsick cabbie auditions for his ex in a pub-theatre in Cork City; a schizophrenic grapples for freedom from the mother in his mind; three voices of the COVID-19 pandemic seek long-distance resolution and reunion.

Performative theatre is one of the most important trends of our time.

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre, how to respond creatively in uncertainty, and how to wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways.

Di Trevis is a world-renowned director, whose work with Britain's National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, and directing productions worldwide, has deeply informed her knowledge of the director's craft.

Die Krise und Reform des Theaters wird nicht erst seit den 2000er Jahren kontrovers diskutiert – bereits im 19.

This collection comprises a comprehensive overview of key themes, arguments, and practices central to the study and understanding of site-specific performance.

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance.

Directing Actors: A Practical Aesthetics Approach is the first book to apply the Practical Aesthetics acting technique to the craft of directing.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

The Show Makers describes twelve of the most creative and influential directors of contemporary musical theatre.

This first volume in the 4x45 series investigates the work of theatre director Katie Mitchell.

Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2020How do you decide what stories an audience should hear?

This volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and work models of producing and managing theatre, dance, and performance - through the lenses of creative producers.

The aim of this book is to contribute a dramaturgical perspective to education.

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.

In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency.

Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia.

The first in-depth study of theatre''s relationship to the public sphere in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.

Production Collaboration in the Theatre reveals the ingredients of proven successful collaborations in academic and professional theatre training, where respect, trust, and inclusivity are encouraged and roles are defined with a clear and unified vision.

Graham Greene was one of the most versatile writers of the 20th century, and he remains a figure of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between literature and cinema.

This book focuses on experimental theatre company, GAle GAtes, credited as "e;the true innovator"e; of the contemporary immersive movement.

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

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico Garcia Lorca was also an accomplished theatre director with a clear process and philosophy of how drama should be staged.

Most writers, composers, librettists, and music directors who make their careers in musical theatre do so without specific training or clear pathways to progress through the industry.

In On Stage, Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre - stage, decor, space, gaze and more - have in the practice of video arts.

A far-reaching examination of how international theatre festivals shape 21st-century intercultural negotiation and exchange.

Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.

A village.

Revised and updated edition: Coming November 2014How to Produce A West End Show demystifies the working world of live theatre.

This is a critical edition, or "e;edition critique,"e; of Victor Hugo's play Hernani.

Delve into the dynamic interplay of theater and society in 18th-century London with Box, Pit, and Gallery: Stage and Society in Johnson's London.

First Published in 1996.

This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards.

This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist, and TV host Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) that identifies him as a practitioner of realism in the theater and lays out how theatrical realism can offer an aesthetic frame sturdy enough to hold together his experiments across media and genres.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.