Theatre studies

Transforming Space over Time tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off Broadway.

This story the story of making the first show is our record of how uncertain, optimistic, idealistic and na ve we felt back then.

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were early Brechtians.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The only African American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, Wilson has yet to receive the critical attention that he merits.

The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, "e;perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright"e; (Time Out London), containing plays from the start of his career up to 2015 with the most recent play in the collection, Shrapnel, and one previously unpublished play.

"e;This is an urgently needed book , as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument.

This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.

Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C.

How Do You Get From One Place To The Next?

Through candid personal interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and other visionary performers, Queens of Comedy explores how comediennes have redefined the roles of women in not only the entertainment business, but society as a whole.

Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the Great Mortality , this book examines the storytelling practices of poets, patients, and physicians in the midst of a medieval public health crisis and demonstrates how literary narratives enable us to see a kinship between poetry and the healing arts.

Introduce young readers to the basics of Egyptian mythology, focusing on origin, intriguing anecdotes, lesser known but fascinating information, ties to modern culture, and more!

What is a live performance?

Twelve per cent of UK theatregoers have a disability.

The Woodwinds: Perform, Understand, Teach provides comprehensive coverage about the woodwind family of musical instruments for prospective instrumental music teachers.

This book takes choreographer William Forsythe's choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation.

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence.

Performed as a one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between prison guard Tracey and criminal Siobhan as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate.

This volume offers a concise guide to the teaching and philosophy of one of the most significant figures in twentieth century actor training.

Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established Miller experts and emerging commentators to investigate the sources of his ongoing resonance with audiences and his place in world theatre.

Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century.

In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations.

Now re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators.

Competition for acting work is fierce, and although talent is important, actors need all the help they can get.

Originally published in 1974, this book examines in detail some of the finest plays from the great cycles of York, Wakefield and Chester.

This book offers the first look at corporate theatre, a global management trend that uses dramatic techniques in workplace learning.

At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress.

In 1983 Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre, with Chinese actors.

The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period.

Like the age-old feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet, the enduring rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers makes for great drama.

This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old.

This long-awaited book is the first full-length study of the work of the extraordinary contemporary black British playwright, debbie tucker green.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art examines, under one umbrella, different kinds of analogies, mutual influences, integrations and collaborations of audio and visual in different art forms.

The Merry Devil of Edmonton lay unperformed from the early seventeenth century until the 1980s.

This is Volume VI in the selected works of Frances Yates, providing a new approach to Shakespeare's last plays.

"Una visión personalísima y absolutamente insólita de la historia del teatro español a través de seis creadores inclasificables de las más diversas tendencias, que marcaron nuevas sendas, tanto en el ámbito nacional como internacional, y cuyas aportaciones, al decir de la autora, no han sido lo suficientemente valoradas o analizadas.

This volume assesses the contributions of Andr Antoine, Konstantin Stanislavski and Michel Saint-Denis, whose work has influenced theatre and training for over a century.

The first of its kind, this volume offers the most ambitious and wide-ranging English-language history of Polish theatre to date.

This book brings together two separate fields by combining a study of Shakespeare's original stage conditions with an exploration of his plays in performance across the globe.

Tombs in Shakespearean Drama explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite!

This book celebrates and documents the resurgence of dance in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the infamous Pol Pot regime.

Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated and versatile actor on Broadway, in film and on television.

Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively.

Young Readers Learn About What Makes Their Community Unique Through Simple Text And Photos.

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare?