History & Criticism

Every ten years since 1634 the German village of Oberammergau has performed the world's most famous Passion Play, recounting the last days in the life of Jesus. In 2010 the village presented the play for the forty-first time, breaking with tradition in a...

Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this community's diverse performance practices are brought...

Peer-reviewed journal of theater history and scholarship published annually by the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC)Book InformationISBN 9780817370152Author Andrew GibbFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher...

The large-scale Broadway musical is one of America's great contributions to world theatre. Bill and Jean Eckart were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical, and their designs revolutionized Broadway productions. At a time when sets were...

The relationship between the Catholic Church and theatre has a long and complicated history. This collection of fourteen critical essays seeks to demystify the ties--both practical and ideological--that have long bound Catholicism to theatrical...

Nominated for Pulitzer, Tony and Obie awards, among others, Lee Blessing has shaped American theater over the last 40 years. Tackling subjects like child abuse, racism, sexism and war, as well as baseball, love and religion, Blessing has dedicated...

Throughout the twentieth century women have made significant contributions to the creation of American musical theatre. Directing, choreographing, writing, arranging, producing and designing musicals in a variety of venues throughout America, women...

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Subjects of Affection offers an alternative to the modern model of human rights in an unexpected archive: the monarchist tragedies that shaped Louis XIV's absolutist France. Pairing political theory with performance studies, Anna Rosensweig argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771663625Author Jordan TannahillFormat PaperbackImprint Book ThugPublisher Book ThugWeight(grams) 299g

Author Barry B. Witham reclaims the work of Manny Fried, an essential American playwright so thoroughly blacklisted after he defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1954, and again in 1964, that his work all but completely disappeared...

Staging Process examines contemporary collective creation practices, with particular focus on the work of four "third wave" American performance ensembles: Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and the TEAM. The book...

The opulent St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters were subsidized and administered by the Russian court from the eighteenth century until the collapse of the tsarist order in 1917. This close association raises many questions about the uses of these...

In Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Cynthia Lowenthal explores identity-especially masculinity and femininity, English and "foreign," middle-class and aristocratic-as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013548659Author Raymond WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 372g

Performing America provides fresh perspectives on the development of visions of both America and "America"--that is, the actual community and the constructed concept--on a variety of theatrical stages. It explores the role of theater in the...

Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and...

This book examines the theater of narration, an Italian performance genre and aesthetic that revisits historical events of national importance from local perspectives, drawing on the rich relationship between personal experiences and historical accounts...

Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias,...

Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as architectural production. Costume transcends boundaries, as it first unites and then divides mankind. The mode of dress differentiates friend from foe and peasant...

Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes atransnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudesand...

'Theatre History Studies' is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887548000Author Harry LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Theatre Communications Group - Playwrights Canada PressPublisher Theatre Communications...

In Comic Theaters, William E. Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that more fully incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms and conceptions of both...

As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian...

Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theatre and a literary critic, Robert J. Andreach finds himself in a position to provide coherence to what most observers perceive as an unrelated welter of contemporary theatrical experiecnes...

Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789979547280Author Sveinn EinarssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint HaskolautgafanPublisher Haskolautgafan

The American Progressive Era, which spanned from the 1880s to the 1920s, is generally regarded as a dynamic period of political reform and social activism. In Performing the Progressive Era, editors Max Shulman and Chris Westgate bring together top...

The Most American Thing in America is the winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History.Book InformationISBN 9781587295850Author Charlotte M. CanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher...

Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and variety entertainment through much of the nineteenth and into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999686515Author Walter AngFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Walter AngPublisher Walter AngWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999686508Author Walter AngFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Walter AngPublisher Walter AngWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472075744Author Ryan ClaycombFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Angels in America was one of the most significant pieces of American theatre in the 20th Century. Much has been written on Tony Kushner's epic drama. However, the National Theatre of Great Britain's productions of the show are relatively under-discussed...

Latinx peoples and culture have permeated Shakespearean performance in the United States for over 75 years-a phenomenon that, until now, has been largely overlooked as Shakespeare studies has taken a global turn in recent years. Author Carla Della Gatta...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810143869Author Juliet GuzzettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)...

The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810144057Author Jisha MenonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief explores the integration and interaction of mimetic theatricality and representational media in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. It brings together carefully chosen sites of performance -...