Articles in the Textbooks category
Routledge publishes quality textbooks in a variety of disciplines and course subjects. We are committed to providing course materials to instructors and students that are both engaging and innovative. You can learn more about our textbooks by viewing our featured selections below in Theatre & Performance Studies. You can also browse textbooks in all subjects or check out our companion websites.
We are delighted to announce the publication of Peggy Phelan's latest book, Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983, which documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. Order a complimentary exam copy today!
Voice: Onstage and Off is a comprehensive guide to the process of building, mastering, and fine-tuning the voice for performance. Every aspect of vocal work is covered, from the initial speech impulse and the creation of sound, right through to refining the final product in different types of performance.
This introduction to theater design explains the theories, strategies, and tools of practical design work for the undergraduate student. This is an essential guide for students and teachers of theater design. Readers will form not only a strong ability to explain and understand the process of design, but also the basic skills required to conceive and realize designs of their own.
Beyond Words presents a range of illuminating approaches to examining every day social interactions, to help the reader understand human movement in new ways. This fully-revised, extensively illustrated second edition includes a new introduction by the authors.
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Ed Hooks' indispensable acting guidebook for animators has been fully updated and improved! Contact your Routledge Rep for more information.
"This is an urgently needed book – as the question of choreographing behavior enters into realms outside of the aesthetic domains of theatrical dance, Susan Foster writes a thoroughly compelling argument." – André Lepecki, New York University, US
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The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance is a groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theater, from the late Nineteenth Century to contemporary performance practice. Order a complimentary examination copy for your class today!
Browse some of our featured books. To find more, visit our 2010 Theatre catalog online.
Check out exciting, new titles in Theatre and Performance, including new editions of Theatre Histories, Bella Merlin’s Acting: The Basics, Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography, and a new edition of Alison Hodge’s Actor Training.
