Performing Arts

The Sound of Music is more than a classic movie. It is a cultural phenomenon. Seen by over one billion people, it won five Academy Awards, ran for almost five years in its initial release, was named the most popular film of all time by the People's Choice Awards, and became the longest running video... More

This book is a ground-breaking study of theater's controversial and contradictory place in the social transformations of the Tudor and Stuart period. In language both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, the author examines the gap between the overheated attacks on the stage and the theater's actu... More

What is theatre? What is performance? What are their connections and differences? What events, people, practices, and ideas have shaped theatre and performance in the twentieth century? And where are they heading next? "The Routledge Companion to Theatre and" "Performance "offers answers to these bi... More

"What a talented, wonderful, and complete writer."--Mel Brooks"By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read."--Arthur Miller"These are wonderful portraits."--Edna O'Brien"The high-water mark of theatrical reportage. Exhilarating! Smart! Lahr gives as much thunderous pleasure as the great ente... More

Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.... More

This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the ... More

Demonstrates the uses of drama in classroom teaching, providing production tips and examples... More

"Corpus Delecti" is an unprecedented event in the history of Latino performance art. Assembled and edited by one of the foremost practitioners and theorists in the field, it charts the extraordinary range of practices, narratives and theories which make up this unique area of contemporary performanc... More

This dramatic experience, for groups as well as for individuals, is at the heart of the series. Each editor therefore assumes an active rather than a passive student of the plays who is encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theater.An active approach ... More

Looks at the way five of the comedies have been staged over the last 50 years, asking how gender politics affects the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on stage.Looks at the way five of the comedies have been staged over the last 50 years, asking how gen... More

Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine ... More

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike.Taking the fo... More

Denkert, a division president of MGM and an industry insider, presents her entertaining, illuminating insights on exactly what happens when stage meets screen. Each show, each movie, has its own history, its own juicy stories, its own dark side, and its own ironic twists.For everyone who loves movie... More

'The combination of careful scholarship emphasising the inspiration and excitement of the theatrical experience, with the freshly edited text, should make this one of the most useful new texts of Twelfth Night.'... More

"Conference of the Birds" is John Heilpern's true story of an extraordinary journey. In December 1972, the director Peter Brook and an international troupe of actors (Helen Mirren and Yoshi Oida among them) left their Paris base to emerge again in the Sahara desert. It was the start of an 8,500-mile... More

Apply communication theories to your own life with THEORIES OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION with InfoTracA(R) With clear and accessible writing, charts that summarize the relationship among theories, and sections devoted to applications and implications, this communication text provides you with the tools y... More

This book brings together key writings on politics, ideology and performance, providing discussion on everything from sexuality in performance to theatre games, power and politics in the theatre to multimedia events, intercultural persepectives to performance theories. This comprehensive collection ... More

'Gurr's account is hard-headed and scholarly, very deftly interweaving comment on the play's action with discussion of contemporary political event thorough, scholarly and continuously helpful. It also contrives to give a strongly personal view without being in the least idiosyncratic.... More

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. This volume gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work. Engaging and provoc... More