Theatre studies

The commentary at the centre of this Handbook introduces students to the play as it would be experienced in performance.

How do performers and artists use media technologies to create live events?

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior.

British theatre has a greater tradition than any other, having started all the way back in 1311 and still going strong today.

Through a collection of original essays and case studies, this innovative book explores theory as an accessible, although complex, tool for theatre practitioners and students.

The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city.

The Broadway musical has greatly influenced both American and world culture.

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880.

Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works.

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965 provides synopses, cast and production credits, song titles, and other pertinent information for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma!

The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985.

African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices.

Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time - from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical.

Something's Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination takes a critical, comprehensive look at one of the most inventive, influential, and internationally beloved Broadway musicals of all time - from its inception by a brilliant quartet of creators (Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents) to its smashing success on film, to its ongoing popularity on stages around the world and its potent impact on the Great American Musical.

In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

Adam Szymkowicz is that rarest of things: a full-time playwright.

In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera's most beloved composers.

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).

In a world of marquee names and big personalities, Jenny Anderson is a legend in her own right.

In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights - such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I.

To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights' creations are not simply words on a page.

In 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea they were about to embark on one of the most popular, boundary-pushing, and influential musicals ever.

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature.

In a world of marquee names and big personalities, Jenny Anderson is a legend in her own right.

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene.

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642.

The Actor's Mindset:Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Businessuniquely prepares actors to live a full, successful life as a performing artist.

The Actor's Mindset:Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Businessuniquely prepares actors to live a full, successful life as a performing artist.

For Broadway audiences of the 1980s, the decade was perhaps most notable for the so-called "e;British invasion.

In 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea they were about to embark on one of the most popular, boundary-pushing, and influential musicals ever.

In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights - such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I.

Theatre & Feminism tells the story of the movement known as feminist performance theory.

How does theatre, one of the most ancient and physical arts, relate to the modern, dynamic technology that is social media?

Robert Cohen draws on fifty years of acting, directing and teaching experience in order to illustrate how the world's great theatre artists combine collaboration with leadership at all levels, from a production's conception to its final performance.

If violence is a terrible thing, why do we watch it?

The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day.

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society.

Although there are many children's theater companies located around the world, more parents and educators need to know what a significant impact such venues can have on the lives of their participants.

The 50-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced and artists who contributed significantly, but also in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans.

Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century's greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899-1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.

The creator of Story Theater, the original director of Second City, and one of the greatest popularizers of improvisational theater, Paul Sills has assembled some of his favorite adaptations from world literature.

Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is considered one of the most versatile and influential of all American theatre and film composers.

Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors.

Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the 20th century.

Carefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals.

The term "e;French theater"e; evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd.

The Broadway musical has greatly influenced American (and world) culture.

Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance.