Theatre studies

A reflection on one of Broadway's most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen's most powerful personalities.

The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870-1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune.

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

This first-ever study of rape in modern American drama examines portrayals of rape, raped women and rapists in 36 plays written between 1970 and 2007, the period during which the feminist movement made rape a matter of public discourse.

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.

Oscar Hammerstein I came to New York in the 1860s, a Prussian runaway with $1.

This first-ever biography exploring the life of Ping Chong (1946), successful avant-garde artist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, focuses on his valuable contributions to modern theatre.

This captivating book explores the intersection where performing art meets human interaction and delves into the application of human factors' principles in this field.

This is the first book-length study of the American actress Sandy Dennis (1937-1992).

Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre's sense of space and time.

This is the biography of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the first star of the American stage.

In 1933, Margaret Sullavan made her film debut and was an overnight sensation.

During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties.

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Early 20th century non-commercial theaters emerged as hubs of social transformation on both sides of the Atlantic.

One of Paul Green's best plays, The House of Connelly, was the first play performed (on Broadway in 1931) by the renowned Group Theatre of New York.

Many Broadway stars appeared in Hollywood cinema from its earliest days.

It is nearly two centuries since the first quarto of Hamlet was rediscovered, yet there is still no consensus about its relationship to the second quarto.

This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily.

When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing.

Angels in America was one of the most significant pieces of American theatre in the 20th Century.

The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2020 presents thirty new ten-minute plays, selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison.

In Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pippin's opening, two-time Pulitzer Prize jury member Elysa Gardner turns her attention to this innovative show, the musical retelling of the story of Prince Pippin, son of Charlemagne, and his quest for an "e;extraordinary life.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for todays readers and actors alike.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike.

Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays.

Renowned editor Lawrence Harbison brings together approximately one hundred never-before-published women's monologues for actors to use for auditions and in class, all from recently produced plays.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for todays readers and actors alike.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for today's readers and actors alike.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for todays readers and actors alike.

The first in-depth study of the career of Shakespearean 'star' actor and theatrical impresario, Richard Burbage.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for todays readers and actors alike.

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

Hamlet calls death "e;that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other.

Curated from the Applause three-volume series, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, edited by Neil Freeman, these monologue from Shakespeares works are given new life and purpose for todays readers and actors alike.

How do theatre and development partnerships operate?

The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, "e;Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?

This book provides a historical overview and then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama.

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender masquerade and sexual ambiguity.

Providing one of the first critically sustained engagements with the new forms of verbatim and testimonial theatre that emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this book examines what distinguishes verbatim theatre from the more established documentary theatre traditions developed initially by Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory.

This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities.

This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance.

Victorian touring actresses brings new attention to women's experience of working in nineteenth-century theatre by focusing on a diverse group of largely forgotten 'mid-tier' performers, rather than the usual celebrity figures.

This book explores the development of Robert Lepage's distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages of his career, arguing that globalisation had a defining effect on shaping his aesthetic and his professional trajectory.

Victorian touring actresses brings new attention to women's experience of working in nineteenth-century theatre by focusing on a diverse group of largely forgotten 'mid-tier' performers, rather than the usual celebrity figures.

Stage rights!

As the Kremlin's crackdown on freedom of expression continues to tighten, Russian playwrights and directors are using documentary theatre to create space for the public discussion of injustice in the civic sphere and its connections to the country's twentieth-century past.

As the Kremlin's crackdown on freedom of expression continues to tighten, Russian playwrights and directors are using documentary theatre to create space for the public discussion of injustice in the civic sphere and its connections to the country's twentieth-century past.