Christopher B. Balme 
Theatrical Public Sphere [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Frustrating, nerve-wracking, job-winning or job-losing, flawed yet necessary – auditioning is a maddening business for everyone involved. The people behind the audition desk are looking for a killer …

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart”s works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard lite …

This ground breaking collection of essays is the first to examine the phenomenon of how, in the twenty-first century, Shakespeare has been experienced as a ”live” or ”as-live” theatre broadcast b …

How do you decide what stories an audience should hear? How do you make your theatre stand out in a crowded and intensely competitive marketplace? How do you make your building a home for artistic ri …

“Theatre is not part of our vocabulary”: Sipho Sepamla”s provocation in 1981, the year of famous anti-apartheid play Woza Albert!, prompts the response, yes indeed, it is. A Century of South African …

Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when working with opera singers to help them meet the physical …

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key …

Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decade …

”When directors understand the value of a movement director they remove any sense of hierarchy within the room and place movement directors firmly by their side for they are and should be their co-p …