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.
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 ...
Michael Chekhov’s Pedagogy from Europe to America, Volume II: Teaching Chekhov’s 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 offers a hypothetical syllabus and study guide for a 6-credit university survey ...
Performing Body, Space, and Place: The Cosmocentric Way
1st Edition
By Thomas Riccio
July 21, 2026
The Performance of Body, Space, and Place offer a groundbreaking methodology for performance in the Anthropocene, addressing the spiritual and ecological crises of our time through a fusion of Indigenous knowledge and contemporary practice. This book is the culmination of 35 years of international ...
Choreographing the North: Settler Affinities in Contemporary Dancemaking
1st Edition
By Bridget Cauthery
July 20, 2026
Choreographing the North examines 11 contemporary dance pieces that perform northern culture, landscape, folklore, and ideas of "North." The choreographers, from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, and Argentina, translate their real or imagined ...
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean: Women Speak Truth to Power
1st Edition
By Artemis Preeshl
July 20, 2026
Consent in Shakespeare’s Classical Mediterranean fills a gap in knowledge about how female-identified, gender-fluid, and non-binary characters made choices about intimacy, engagement, and marriage in Shakespeare’s classical Mediterranean plays. This classical sequel explores how female-identified, ...
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm
1st Edition
By Katerina Paramana
July 20, 2026
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds. Performance works, however, can offer ...
Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance
1st Edition
By Lisa Moravec
July 20, 2026
The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics ...
Logomimesis: A Treatise On The Performing Body
1st Edition
By Esa Kirkkopelto
July 20, 2026
How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosophical, ethical, and political thinking today? This book is a study of the body and language on the stage. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and...
Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse
1st Edition
By Harriet Curtis
July 20, 2026
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains. Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical ...