Theatre studies

This edited collection charts the development of contemporary dance in Central and Eastern Europe since the literal and symbolic revolutions of 1989.

Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who, after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John F.

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

Originally published in 1984.

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century presents a wide range of viewpoints on the musical theatre profession.

Drawing together a wealth of primary sources, J.

The Art of Movement: Rudolf Laban's Unpublished Writings offers new perspectives on the thinking and practice of Rudolf Laban - one of the pioneers of modern European dance and movement analysis.

Focusing on key texts, leading scholars explore how Hollywood has given an enduring life to the classics of Broadway theater.

In 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T.

Collaboration is the most important facet of any theatrical company.

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "e;staged"e; in a double sense.

This city is changing.

Queering Autoethnography articulates for the first time the possibilities and politics of queering autoethnography, both in theoretical terms and as an intervention into narratives and cultures of apology, shame and fear.

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

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'.

When Shakespearean characters kiss, embrace, or shake hands, what does it mean?

With a government plagued by systemic ills and deep ideological divides, democracy, as we know it, is in jeopardy.

This book, first published in 2000, is a history of stage devils in early English drama.

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art?

Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century.

Act as a Feminist maps a female genealogy of UK actor training practices from 1970 to 2020 as an alternative to traditional male lineages.

European theatre has been the site of enormous change and struggle since 1960.

Shakespeare was a master of language, his sayings have become part of everyday speech, and his plays endure, in part, because of the beauty of his verse.

A Galaxy of Things explores the ways in which all puppets, masks, makeup-prosthetic figures are "e;material characters,"e; using iconic Star Wars characters like Yoda and R2-D2 to illustrate what makes them so compelling.

Theatrical Design: An Introduction is a guide for designers, creatives, and artists to create a design idea for a project and then audio/visually interpret and communicate that idea.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative 100-year period.

Stories of Willie Nelson and Paul English's misadventures became legendary, but many have gone untolduntil now.

This book chronicles the major milestones in the artistic, physical, and administrative history of Lincoln Center's last two-and-a-half decades.

Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections.

When Hillary was young, she wanted to be an astronaut, to soar as high as the stars above.

The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together nineteen plays produced by Theatre Day Productions, one of the foremost community theatres in the Middle East.

Parmelee shows how presidential primary campaign videocassettes serve many functions for candidates on their road to the White House.

How do you develop the craft and skills of stage management for today's theatre industry?

John Lyly is the first collection of essays dedicated solely to the work of this University Wit, celebrity prose writer, and playwright to the court of Elizabeth.

We're supposed to be having a party.

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

Wig Making and Styling: A Complete Guide for Theatre and Film, Second Edition is the one-stop shop for the knowledge and skills you need to create and style wigs.

In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.

Live Digital Theatre explores the experiences of Interdisciplinary Performing Arts practitioners working on digital performance and in particular live digital theatre.

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides The Bacchae.

First Published in 1995.

What do cultural leaders really think about the problems they, and the arts and cultural sector, face?

Immersive theater calls upon audience members to become participants, actors and "e;others.

Ralph P.

Costume in Motion is a guide to all stages of the collaboration process between costume designers and choreographers, documenting a wide range of approaches to the creation of a dance piece.

This book theorizes the baroque as neither a time period nor an artistic style but as a collection of bodily practices developed from clashes between governmental discipline and artistic excess, moving between the dramaturgy of Jesuit spiritual exercises, the political theatre-making of Angelo Beolco (aka Ruzzante), and the civic governance of the Venetian Republic at a time of great tumult.

This book presents an introductory overview of the socio-economic organization of creative industries, focusing on the East Asian context.