Directing in Musical Theatre offers a comprehensive guide which will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end.
Until now, Eugene O'Neills psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neills life, his family, and his plays.
Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based.
Directing in Musical Theatre offers a comprehensive guide which will equip aspiring directors with all of the skills that they will need in order to guide a production from beginning to end.
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto.
The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three original American racesred, black, and whitefor Mormons and others in the early American Republic.
"e;Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter,"e; writes Eva Stehle, "e;but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.
Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based.
This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines.
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions.
The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three original American racesred, black, and whitefor Mormons and others in the early American Republic.
As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation.
Until now, Eugene O'Neills psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neills life, his family, and his plays.
The performance art of burlesque, once a faded form, has made a comeback in the twenty-first century, and it has shimmied back to life with a vengeance in Cleveland.
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto.
This book explores how virtual reality (VR) can be used to examine perceptual differences in neurodivergent individuals, particularly those with autism and ADHD, by introducing a new methodological framework.
The attire of the feudal lords and ladies of old Japan, warriors, priest, courtesans, Edo-period dandies geisha, footmen, farmers in fact, the whole array of Kabuki's colorful characters-is discussed in fascinating detail in this Japanese Kabuki book.
Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilerating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.
Preacher-Poets demonstrates that early modern sermons had a larger impact on early modern literary texts and culture than previously assumed, analyzing the role of gender in theological and non-theological texts.
Kabuki A Pocket Guide introduces readers to the foundations of Kabukiits history and its actors, its acting styles and its performance, its color and musicto the sheer beauty and joy of Kabuki.
This book explores the under-theorized intersections between Shakespeare and drag in contemporary American culture and performances of and around what it terms ShaxDrag.
A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unpacking the political, historical, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of madness and mental distress in literary and visual cultures.
Traversing 400 years of drama, this book examines the history play as a distinctive form that has its origins in the Early Modern period and which evolves in each subsequent period according to the segment of history being dramatized and the changing conceptions of the state.
Traversing 400 years of drama, this book examines the history play as a distinctive form that has its origins in the Early Modern period and which evolves in each subsequent period according to the segment of history being dramatized and the changing conceptions of the state.
Create Meaning with Sound: Sound Design Theory for Live Theatre offers an artistic framework that connects philosophy, perception, and storytelling to the practice of theatrical sound design, mapping out a theory of sound design for the performing arts.
Create Meaning with Sound: Sound Design Theory for Live Theatre offers an artistic framework that connects philosophy, perception, and storytelling to the practice of theatrical sound design, mapping out a theory of sound design for the performing arts.
A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unpacking the political, historical, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of madness and mental distress in literary and visual cultures.
