Theatre category: 6638 books
Virtual Theatres
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated.
In this fascinating volume, Gabriella...
Musical Theatre
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This is a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the 1840s all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway as it we know it today. Wide-ranging in content, it covers Europe, the UK, and North American traditions and developments.
by Francis E. Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
by David Currell
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets, considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. Traditional shadow play techniques, together with modern materials and methods and recent explorations...
Neoliberalism and Global Theatres
Performance Permutations
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
How do theatre and performance transmit and dispute ideologies of neoliberalism? The essays in this anthology examine the mechanisms and rhetorics of contemporary multinational and transnational organizations, artists, and communities that produce theatre and performance for global audiences.
by Amber Massie-Blomfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
From the tip of Cornwall to the Isle of Mull, through rural communities and the inner-city, Amber Massie-Blomfield takes the road less travelled to discover Britain's most astonishing and unexpected theatres. A ruined playhouse, haunted halls, a stage hewn from granite cliffs. Theatres on wheels,...
Real Life Drama
The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Real Life Drama is the classic history of the remarkable group that revitalized American theater in the 1930s by engaging urgent social and moral issues that still resonate today.
Born in the turbulent decade of the Depression, the Group Theatre revolutionized American arts. Wendy Smith's dramatic...
New World Drama
The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized...
Gendering the Nation
Identity Politics and English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Gendering the Nation studies the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the long eighteenth century as a nation-building discourse. It evaluates the impact of the cultural phenomenon of Sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for the men and women of a polite,...
Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology
Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.
Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas
A Puppet Show, The King on the Square and the Unknown Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Aleksandr Blok's Trilogy of Lyric Dramas gathers together for the first time in English translation the first three plays by Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. The three plays that constitute the trilogy - A Puppet Show,...
by Marvin Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Since its original publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A Critical Introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. It is an unparalleled exploration of the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted, its importance to disciplines...
I Wanna Be a Producer
How to Make a Killing on Broadway...or Get Killed
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
What does a “producer” actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit, but he does take the reader on a fascinating journey behind-the-scenes to where he himself once stood as a child, dreaming...
Spanish Theatre 1920-1995
Strategies in Protest and Imagination (1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Beginning with a reassessment of the 1920s and 30s, this text looks beyond a consideration of just the most successful Spanish playwrights of the time, and discusses also the work of directors, theorists, actors and designers.