Theatre & Performance Studies: Products

By Hillary Miller

Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the post-network television era. In these conversations, eighteen dramatists consider their professional paths…

Paperback – 2020-03-11 
Routledge

By Ann Tonks

The A to Z of Arts Management, Second Edition covers 97 topics about the management of arts and cultural organisations. Each section offers a theoretical and conceptual introduction to the topic, as well as storytelling and reflections about the meaning and application of such theories in the real…

Paperback – 2020-03-11 
Routledge

By William J. Reynolds

Safety and Health for the Stage: Collaboration with the Production Process is a practical guide to integrating safety and health into the production process for live entertainment in the context of compliance with applicable codes, standards, and recommended practices. This book explores the need…

Paperback – 2020-03-06 
Routledge

By Julian Woolford

'Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow, Bloom and grow forever' 　 Often dismissed as kitsch sentimentalism, Rodger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music has proven an enduringly popular and surprisingly influential cultural icon, both within the field of musical theatre and the wider world. The…

Paperback – 2020-03-02 
Routledge
The Fourth Wall

Edited by Michael Kassler

Originally published in 2003, Charles Edward Horn's Memoirs of His Father and Himself is an annotated collection of the memoirs of Charles Edward Horn. They include an account of Horn’s father, Charles Frederick Horn, who arrived penniless in London in 1782 and rose to become music master to Queen…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Jana Tift, Meade Andrews

Your Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning: knowing your body and experiencing how it works. Through the work of F.M. Alexander, Rudolf Laban, and Michael Chekhov, this book offers basic…

Paperback – 2020-02-12 
Routledge

By Christopher Innes, Katherine Carlstrom, Scott Fraser

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fostering their consideration in the critical interpretation of dramatic literature. The authors additionally suggest ways of approaching and evaluating the…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Christopher Bigsby

First published in 1990, this book presents a discussion with Arthur Miller, in conversation with Christopher Bigsby. Miller talks openly and extensively about his own life and experiences, events and environments which provide material for his plays: his New York childhood, the Depression, the…

Paperback – 2020-01-31 
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Chelsea Pace

Staging Sex lays out a comprehensive, practical solution for staging intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. This book takes theatre practitioners step-by-step through the best practices, tools, and techniques for crafting effective theatrical intimacy. After an overview of the challenges…

Paperback – 2020-01-10 
Routledge

By Katherine Romack

Edited by James Fitzmaurice

Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections explores the relationship between the plays of William Shakespeare and the writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Cavendish wrote 25 plays in the 1650s and 60s, making her one of the most prolific playwrights”man or woman”of the…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Narda E. Alcorn, Lisa Porter

Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice offers theory and methodology for developing a unique stage management style, preparing stage managers to develop an adaptive approach for the vast and varied scope of the production processes, forge their own path, and respond to the present moment…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Valerie Clayman Pye, Hillary Haft Bucs

Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice is the first book that compiles practical approaches of the best practices from a range of practitioners on the subject of working with Stanislavski’s "objectives", "obstacles" and "tactics". The book offers instructors and directors a variety of…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge