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"Ira Weitzman is the ultimate backstage presence, someone whose influence is essential but of whom audiences are totally unaware.” (Playbill Magazine) In the landscape of American musical theatre one figure stands as a quiet architect of some of its most ground-breaking works. For nearly five...

We often imagine Shakespeare as a solitary genius. But the playwright’s dazzling imagination was enabled and inspired by the blazing charisma and unruly temper of his toweringly ambitious lead actor, Richard Burbage. Today, Burbage’s name is almost forgotten, but his presence haunts the...

London’s West End is a global success story, staging phenomenal hit shows that have delighted millions of spectators and generated billions of pounds in revenue. In Good Nights Out, Aleks Sierz provides a thematic survey of such popular theatre shows that were enormous commercial successes...

"Larry Fuller’s career has spanned some of the most influential and transformative moments in musical theater history." - Stage and Cinema Dancing Through Life is an intimate, electrifying memoir that pulls back the curtain on Broadway’s most dazzling decades—told by a man who didn’t...

"Informative, provocative and entertaining all at the same time." - Michael Billington This is a wide-ranging and accessible account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental style. A guide to the key plays and playwriting innovations, it enlightens...

Before the red curls, before the Tony Awards, and long before "Tomorrow" became a Broadway anthem, there was a dream, and a risky one at that. The Annie Phenomenon is the compelling behind-the-scenes story of how a scrappy comic strip orphan made an unlikely leap from the Sunday funnies to the...

A cultural history of the record-shattering Broadway musical The Wiz, and the beloved movie it inspired, revealing the never-before-told story of the man behind the sensation Since its release in 1978, The Wiz has become a cultural mainstay. Jam-packed with the top stars of the day, Diana Ross...

Winner of the 2021 Music & Drama Education Award for Outstanding Drama Education Resource Much of the theatre we make starts with a script and a story given to us by someone else. But what happens when we're required to start from scratch? How do we begin to make theatre using our own ideas, our...

From the legendary New Yorker theater critic and Tony Award winner, a moving memoir about American theater’s golden age. In These Foolish Things, the acclaimed author and seminal drama critic of the New Yorker for more than twenty years captures the events and people who informed his life...

Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely embraced and taught throughout the world – but is still often rejected, misunderstood and...

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today. Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur...

The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and...

事実は小説より奇なり…。当代の役者たちはどんな歴史を背負っているか？ 明治から令和まで、劇界を動かしてきた10大名家の興亡史。 世襲と門閥が織りなす波瀾万丈の人間ドラマを見よ。 旧版刊行から13年、歌舞伎ファン必携の名著が最新の動向まで網羅して完全リニューアル！ 本書で取り上げる10大名家 市川團十郎家／尾上菊五郎家／中村歌右衛門家／片岡仁左衛門家／松本幸四郎家／中村吉右衛門家／守田勘彌家／市川猿之助家／中村鴈治郎家／中村勘三郎家 本書は役者たちの「藝」を解説し、批評するものではない。

Bloomsbury presents Deafiant: My Journey in Theatre, written and read by Jenny Sealey. Jenny Sealey has spent her career to date championing the work of Deaf and Disabled artists and the importance of having their stories on our stages and screens. Now, she shares her own experience as a Deaf...

William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper’s first book, The Actor’s Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught...

How is immersive and interactive technology integrated into theatre? How did the 'digital boom' and Covid-19 pandemic expand this integration? How does this integration affect the work, and the accessibility of the work? This brief study examines the intersection of the augmented, mixed, and...

What are neurodiverse aesthetics? How and where do neurodiverse aesthetics appear, and how do they positively affect the wider theatrical culture? How can we all contribute to a neurodiversity-affirming theatre industry? This brief study celebrates neurodiversity and deconstructs...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Dramaturgy by Zoe Svendsen, read by Jessica Alade. What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance? Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Tourism by Margaret Werry, read by Laurence Bouvard. How does tourism impact theatre? How do theatrical ways of seeing, knowing, and acting shape tourism? How do economic and political processes like colonization or neoliberalization influence them both? And what...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Race by Harvey Young, read by Greg Lockett. Theatre and Race centers on the interrelationship of the words on either side of the ampersand. It offers an accessible overview of how race is performed and how western theatrical practice has wrestled with the topic...