Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering theatre and performance alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, and the avant-garde, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Stand Up: The Craft of Comedy
1st Edition
By John Gronbeck-Tedesco, Rachel E. Blackburn
October 23, 2026
Stand Up is a practical and engaging guide to mastering the art of stand-up comedy. This book equips readers with the tools to craft and deliver jokes that resonate with audiences. It introduces eight essential strategies—anxiety triggers, exaggeration, self-defeat, tone, persona, crossing contexts...
Black Activists Write Wheatley and Washington: Terrell, Du Bois, and the Drama of the 1932 Bicentennial
1st Edition
By Lurana Donnels O’Malley
October 16, 2026
This book examines how early twentieth-century Black theatre artists depicted national mythologies of the United States. White-authored pageants and plays written for the 1932 Bicentennial celebration of George Washington’s birthday relegated Black Americans to the periphery through racist ...
Embracing Disruption: Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance
1st Edition
By Stephen Wisker
October 16, 2026
This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning in Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and explores how he purposefully invited the clown’s anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy. Clowning was a potent but divisive force in the theater of Shakespeare’s time, challenging the emerging ...
From Object to Performance: The Beginnings of Israeli Performance Art
1st Edition
By Dror Harari
October 16, 2026
From Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a “performance mentality” and the gradual maturation of a “performative turn” in Israeli art. Manifested in the transition from object-oriented art to performance-based art, this cultural moment reflected ...
Performance and Performativity of Dalit Students Politics in India: The Justice for Rohith Movement
1st Edition
By Malavika Priyadarshini Rao
October 16, 2026
This book examines the significance of body, space, sound/voice/music and objects of resistance in everyday performance of Dalit student protests, focusing on the protests which erupted after Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD student, died,by suicide in Hyderabad Central University on 17 January 2016 in ...
The Art of Sensorial Language
1st Edition
By Barbara Pia Jenič
October 16, 2026
The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interactivity and multisensory experiences that can be understood internationally and cross‑culturally. It considers interactivity not as a technological mode of interaction but as a direct and immediate communication between the audience and the ...
Reimagining Dance on Screen: A Practical Guide to Dance-Filmmaking
1st Edition
By Mitchell Rose
October 15, 2026
Reimagining Dance on Screen is a hands-on guide for dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, and independent artists who want to create compelling dance-films. Written from a dancer’s perspective, it approaches dance on camera as a cinematic art form—not simply choreography documented on video. This ...
Beckett on Film: The Actors and Directors’ Cut
1st Edition
By Annette Balaam
September 29, 2026
Beckett on Film is a twenty-first century collection of original and extended interviews with internationally renowned actors and directors who created the Beckett on Film (2001) project. Speaking directly to the reader each artist explores the processes involved in recreating Samuel Beckett’s ...
Authentic Voice and Speech: A Non-Prescriptive, Student-Centered Approach
1st Edition
By Louis Colaianni, Peter Marciano
September 15, 2026
Authentic Voice and Speech by Louis Colaianni and Peter Marciano offers a ground breaking, student-centered approach to voice and speech training that celebrates individuality and diversity. This book moves beyond traditional, prescriptive methods to empower readers to embrace their unique voices ...
Dancing With Stanislavsky: A Concise Acting Technique for Dancers
1st Edition
By Deborah Novak
September 07, 2026
Dancing with Stanislavsky offers dancers a streamlined, accessible approach to acting technique rooted in Stanislavsky's timeless principles. Dr. Deborah Novak, an interdisciplinary scholar of dance and theater, has crafted an easy-to-read guide that bridges the gap between technical precision and ...
Audio-Visualism: Reframing Relationships Between Sound & Image
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Gibson, Yan Breuleux, Joseph Hyde, Donna Leishman
August 31, 2026
Audio-Visualism follows on from Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, which covered a broad history of live visual and audio-visual practice. This volume covers the contemporary audio-visual world in greater detail, focusing on the works of artists who work in the interstices between sound, ...
Michael Chekhov’s Pedagogy from Europe to America, Volume I: Discovering a Holistic Dramatic Method
1st Edition
By Lenka Pichlíková-Burke
July 30, 2026
This study describes and applies the pedagogical method of the actor, director, and dramatic theorist, Michael Chekhov (1891-1955), as a unique phenomenon in the broader context of modern theatre history. This volume shows how Chekhov took the principles he learned as a student and then as a ...