Theater

In 2022, my first book, 'Fire! Fire! The Theatre's on Fire', was published. It focused on the devastating effect of theatres impacted by fire. It was nominated for 'The STR Theatre Book Prize 2022' which is awarded each year by the Society for Theatre...

Dramatic Comedy / 5m, 2f / Unit Set In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and...

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theatre created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers. In the late Fifties and Sixties, iconoclastic young rebels in Chicago opened two tiny theatres-The Compass and...

Just like Robert Tanitch's critically acclaimed book on the London stage in the twentieth century, this wonderful new book is 'fascinating - absolutely wonderful for finding what you aren't looking for'. Presented chronologically, the concise and...

Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708091Author Theresa RebeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Since it was founded in 1991, British theatre company Stan's Cafe has garnered an international reputation for artistic innovation, and prolific, eclectic performance projects. Their work has toured nationally and internationally, with 2003's Of All The...

Written to meet the needs of thousands of students and pre-professional singers participating in production workshops and classes in opera and musical theater, Acting for Singers leads singing performers step by step from the studio or classroom through...

Starting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability. Compiled by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845839338Author Rob BagnallFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Broadway, once upon a time. A place where people buy tickets at the box office, with cash; where patrons dress for theatre, with no sneakers, no water bottles, and no backpacks; and the only text messages are the ones put there by the playwright. A place...

This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists,...

Beyond the footlightsBook InformationISBN 9781845885700Author Jim McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm

I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago, the city is alive. Joni Mitchell sings,...

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...

Published alongside The Japan Foundation, this collection features five creative and bold plays by some of Japan's most prolific writers of contemporary theatre. Translated into English for the first time, these texts explore a wide range of themes from...

Tonight Neverland is fleshed out with plenty of plant life, certainly bettering 2011's production of Jack and the Bean-Cactus. So, with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan! The inept and...

The Art of Writing Drama is an indispensable textbook for wherever writing for the stage is taught, but also serves as a foundational book for any student taking courses in performance media - radio, television and film. Coupling theory with practice,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534616820Author EdibooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from...

A book of selected theatre reviews from 2020 from one of the foremost authorities on British theatre. Starting each chapter is a brief commentary on the developments of that era and the social, political and cultural context within which this theatre...

The Dark Theatre is an indispensable text for activist communities wondering what theatre might have to do with their futures, students and scholars across Theatre and Performance Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy and Social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365741Author Barry EdelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Making Theatre in Northern Ireland examines the relationships between theatre and the turbulent political and social context of Northern Ireland since 1969. It explores in detail key theatrical performances which deal directly with this context. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573663529Author Adam P KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory...

Three new plays from three of the UK's most celebrated playwrights. All rooted in West London, the plays explore race, identity and our sense of place and purpose, presented together as one piece, Out West. The Overseas Student by Tanika Gupta ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479306794Author CC BeechumFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

I would highly recommend Leitch's study, in particular for its diversity and complexity. The author demonstrates that he is familiar with a large and heterogeneous corpus, including canonical as well as popular or marginal films and texts, which...

'... love creates something that was not there before.' - HedwigJohn Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened on Valentine's Day,1998, in New York City, and ever since, it and its genderqueer heroine have captivated audiences...

As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics...

Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581153156Author John KalutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Aeschylus' Persians is the earliest extant Greek tragedy and sole surviving historical tragedy. Produced in 472 BC, the play tells the story of the defeat of the Persian king Xerxes in his attempt to expand his empire by conquering Greece and his return...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780413496003Author Stefan BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Methuen DramaPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 158g

Getting a new show up and running? Planning a revival? Taking over a long-running show? Going on the road? On Broadway, off Broadway, in regional repertory, or on tour, the only book you need as your professional companion is Peter Lawrence's...

In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political...

I've been trying to remember a story. Can you help me? A long time ago our ancestors told it to us. I think it has to do with where we belong. In 2015, Mohegan Theater Maker Madeline Sayet travelled to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, but...

This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss...

Space: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre...