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Browse all of the latest news and updates from Routledge Theatre & Performance Studies. We regularly publish helpful information and news within the area of Theatre & Performance Studies to celebrate our publishing program and the individuals that make it possible.

Recent News Articles

  1. Routledge Performance Archive News - December

    Featuring: cupcakes and transatlantic celebrations for the launch of the RPA; press coverage, rave reviews and endorsements; and new content from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for 2013.

  2. Visit the Companion Website - Actor Training, 2e

    Actor Training expands on Alison Hodge’s highly-acclaimed and best-selling Twentieth Century Actor Training. This exciting second edition radically updates the original book making it even more valuable for any student of the history and practice of actor training. In addition, eight more practitioners are included - and forty more photographs - to create a stunningly comprehensive study. Click here to order a complimentary exam copy or visit the companion website.

  3. Routledge Performance Archive - Have You Requested a Free Trial

    The Routledge Performance Archive (RPA) is a developing resource produced in partnership with Digital Theatre, providing unique access to an unprecedented range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance.

    We have received a wonderful response to the RPA after its launch in the UK at the TaPRA Conference and in the US at the ASTR Conference and want to remind you that you can request a free trial of the site for yourself or your institution. Request your trial here.

  4. The Varieties of Performance Experience

    Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00 PM: Routledge invites you to a special panel discussion with Social Works author Shannon Jackson at The Kitchen in New York City. For more information on this title, please click here.

  5. Review of Shannon Jackson’s Social Works

    "Social Works takes an interdisciplinary look at the forms, goals, and histories of innovative social practice in contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson presents a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to examine the fields for performative and visual art studies. The resulting analysis incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses as well as a practical understanding of social practice." 
    --Public Art Review, 2011, Issue 45

  6. Theatre Topics review of The Politics of American Actor Training

    Theatre Topics
    Volume 20, Number 2, September 2010
    E-ISSN: 1086-3346 Print ISSN: 1054-8378
    DOI: 10.1353/tt.2010.0102

    Reviewed by Steven Harrick, Bowling Green State University 

  7. ORLAN

    Routledge Practitioner of the Month: ORLAN

    ORLAN is a French performance artist specializing in ‘carnal art’. Transforming her face and her body using plastic surgery, she is challenging the commonly held standard of what beauty is. Click here to find out more.

  8. Phillip Zarrilli’s Psychophysical Acting wins the 2010 ATHE Outstanding Book Award!

    Phillip Zarrilli’s Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski has been selected for the 2010 Outstanding Book award for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

  9. Follow Routledge Theatre and Performance on Twitter

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  10. Custom Publishing for Theatre and Performance is Only a Click Away

    Finally, it’s easy to customize materials for your Theatre and Performance course! The Routledge Theatre and Performance Studies Collection offers a unique selection of primary texts by renowned practitioners; ground-breaking research by leading scholars; innovative textbooks; and highly acclaimed practical handbooks. You may select from 58 titles comprising 697 chapters to build the text suitable for your classroom needs.

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