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Author: Gretel Killeen

When a clairvoyant tells Gretel Killeen that she has only days to live, she is forced to look back on all the most important things in her life. High on her list is the man with whom she has shared her longest relationsh ...

Author: Alicia Tycer

This guide provides an accessible informative critical introduction to Caryl Churchill's classic modern play, "Top Girls".Caryl Churchill is widely considered one of the most innovative playwrights to have emerged in pos ...

Author: Stephen Sondheim

As he did in the acclaimed Finishing the Hat, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theatre history, discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming dissections of his work - both the successes ...

Author: Nellie McCaslin

[A] long overdue retrospective of the major playwrights, theatre companies, and professional organizations which have sustained the children's theatre movement in this country. . . . Part One of McCaslin's book is a h ...

Author: Lesley Wade Soule

Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions dervice from celebrative rituals, this book describes the figure of the actor as "anti-character" in premodern popular theatre. Particularly in plays ...

Author: Arthur Feinsod

This book is about leaders of the modern American theatre who resisted the temptation to fill the stage, preferring instead the evocations of a simple stage. Their work initially raised controversy, being applauded as vi ...

Author: Steve Tillis

Traditions of folk drama exist throughout the world, ranging from simple forms that involve few people, rudimentary texts, and crude performance practices, to complex forms involving entire towns, highly elaborated te ...

Author: Ron Engle, Felicia Hardison Londre & Daniel J. Watermeier

Though first performed some 400 years ago, the plays of William Shakespeare still continue to capture the popular imagination and are produced by numerous companies around the world. This reference describes over 140 Sha ...

Author: Ronald W. Vince

Scholars increasingly see medieval theatre as a complex and vital performance medium related more closely to political, religious, and social life than to literature as we know it. Reflecting the current interest in perf ...

Author: Samuel L. Leiter

This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's "From Stanislavsky to Barrault - Representative Directors of the European Stage", provides accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight directors of the E ...

Author: Leigh Woods

This compendium opens the stagedoor for those with little or no practical experience in acting. For actors and other theatre specialists grappling with the challenges posed by performing or staging the works of the great ...

Author: Gloria Klaiman

In this collection of interviews, artists from various disciplines and in various stages of their careers discuss how they balance their art with the practical aspects of earning a living. They explore how this dichot ...

Author: Rush Rehm

Is 'space' a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In "The Play of Space", noted classicist- ...

Author: Maciej Karpinski

Andrzej Wajda stands as one of the leading film-makers in contemporary European cinema, although his equally important theatrical achievements have remained less well-known. This book provides the first account and criti ...

Author: Don B. Wilmeth & Tice L. Miller

This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattere ...

Author: E.J. Czerwinski

Although European critics have recognized Poland's distinctive contributions to theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century, American audiences first became acquainted with Polish drama only in the 1960s through ...

Author: Milly S. Barranger

A renowned and beloved international actress, first successful on the London stage, Jessica Tandy captured Broadway as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1947, making that role forever ...

Author: Ronald W. Vince

"Like Vince's two previous volumes in this series (Ancient and Medieval Theatre, 1984, and Renaissance Theatre) Neoclassical Theatre provides a valuable resource for theoreticians and practioners." Choice

Author: William W. Demastes & Katherine E. Kelly

Contemporary British theatre has its roots in the work of dramatists active from the closing decades of the 19th century through John Osborne's 1956 "Look Back in Anger". The dramatic achievements from 1880 to 1956 are a ...

Author: Arvid F. Sponberg

In this book Arvid F.Sponberg provides a view of what some of the most important people in the commercial theatre think about the state of their business. With one exception, none of those interviewed has had an extended ...