"New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers, and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals this is the first single-vo…
"This is the first full-length study of Shelley's plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley's role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his 'closet dramas' as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley'…
"This is the first full-length study of Shelley's plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley's role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his 'closet dramas' as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley'…
Presents a radical re-examination of the ways in which demographic shifts will impact theater and performance culture in the twenty-first century ... Opening with a case study of the New WORLD Theater and moving on to a range of essays, the book looks at five main themes: Changi…
"An adaptation of Shakespeare's plays as a basis of critical exploration of identity formation in India. Even while a conscious dismantling of colonization was happening since the 19th century, the Indian literati, intellectuals, scholars and dramaturges were engaged in deconstr…
Introduction : Jayaganesh and the avant-garde -- Playing -- The street is the stage -- Waehma : space, time, identity, and theater at New Pascua, Arizona -- Striding through the cosmos : movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar -- Wayang kulit in the colo…
The Routledge companion to scenography
"Unspeakable Acts interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theatre through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, socio…
"Shakespeare's company coped with an enormous mnemonic load, performing up to six different plays a week. How did they do it? Cognition in the Globe addresses this question through the lens of distributed cognition. This is a dynamic model that attends to the art of 'playing' at…