Music
Three plays which tell a fascinating story, provide a fuller understanding of A Doll’s House and introduce the playwright Laura Kieler to English audiences.
Pavilion
The Meaning of Tango Christine Denniston 11th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008725068
From the back streets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society this is the story of a dance that captivated the world.
Princeton University Press
The Proof Stage Stephen Abbott 6th January, pb, eb, £17.99, 9780691243375
How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage.
A Defence of Pretence Indira Ghose 2nd December, pb, eb, £28, 9780691269986
How the drama of Shakespeare’s time demonstrates the tensions within civility.
The Lost History of Roman Theatre TP Wiseman
20th January, hb, eb, £38, 9780691273235
Investigating the origins of theatre in Ancient Rome.
Scheidegger und Spiess
King Stag Sabine Flaschberger (ed) 8th September, pb, £35, 9783039422746
First English translation of a modern adaption of an 18th-century Italian fairy-tale play by Swiss dramatist Rene Morax (1873-1963) and director Werner Wolff (1886-1972).
Sterling
The Periodic Table of Broadway Musicals Andrew Gerle, Joseph Zellnik
7th October, hb, £35, 9781454958840
Imagine the classic periodic table of the elements but instead of chromium and rhodium it’s Miss Saigon and Rent. This delightful gift book will thrill lovers of everything Broadway and beyond.
Autumn/Winter 2025 The 87 Press
University of Chicago Press
Oedipus the King Sophocles, David Grene (tr), Glenn W Most, Mark Griffith
19th September, pb, eb, £10, 9780226844633
Updated, standalone edition taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of Greek tragedies. Essential information about the play’s first production, plot and reception in antiquity and beyond.
Autobiography of a Performance Bhanu Kapil, Blue Pieta
23rd October, pb, £14.99, 9781068751592
Focuses on five performances through a study of shared time and inter- generational healing.
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre Katharine Goodland
11th December, pb, eb, £28.99, 9781350205802
Examines the work of director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, among the most vibrant, groundbreaking and enduring Shakespeare theatres in America.
Shakespeare and Brecht Stephen Unwin 2nd October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781350419612
The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing possibilities.
Tuttle
Japanese Kabuki Stories Ornella Civardi 14th November, hb, £19.99, 9784805319727
Beautiful book celebrates the Japanese kabuki tradition with 15 classic tales of tragic love and fatal passion that are frequently performed on the kabuki stage in Japan.
Unicorn
Above and Beyond Greenwich and Docklands Festival
22nd August, hb, £35, 9781916846722
Tells the story in words and pictures of why Greenwich+Docklands International Festival is London’s leading outdoor free arts festival.
Antigone
Sophocles, Elizabeth Wyckoff (tr), Glenn W Most, Mark Griffith
19th September, pb, eb, £10, 9780226844657
One of the most widely read and admired of Sophocles’ plays. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies series.
The Greek Tragedies David Grene (ed), Richmond Lattimore (ed), Mark Griffith, Glenn W Most
19th September, pb, eb, £20, 9780226844695
Chicago’s translations of the greatest surviving plays of Ancient Greece, collected in a single volume. Includes an introduction to the life and work of each tragedian, an overview of each play and notes addressing textual uncertainties.
University of Hawai’i Press
Beyond the Sewol Areum Jeong 30th September, pb, £23.99, 9798880701773
Activist theatre and performance In South Korea and the diaspora.
Verso Books
St Paul Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Badiou, Elizabeth A Castelli (tr), Ward Blanton
28th October, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781836740384
“Mingles an intellectual leftism with a Franciscan Catholicism”– New Statesman.
Voltaire Foundation
Diderot and the Human Body in Material Culture Marie-Irene Ingelmann
11th November, pb, £75, 9781836245285
Examines theories of acting and material culture, presenting new
perspectives on Diderot’s mannequin metaphor.
Wordville
Six Young Women Putting on a Play Richard Nelson 15th September, pb, £10.99, 9781739103064
Nelson wrote and directed a play in Kyiv in 2025. His diary records working with the Ukrainian actresses as the play, their lives and the war got tangled up.
Yale University Press
Nevertheless: A Choreographic Workbook Yvonne Rainer, Emmanuele Phuon, Pascal Lemaitre (illus)
23rd September, hb, eb, £18, 9780300279283
Legendary choreo- grapher’s personal and practical guide to the art of dance-making.
This Dry Spell Keegon Schuett, Jeremy O Harris
27th January, pb, eb, £18.99, 9780300282764
Seventeenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, a deeply personal celebration of trans identity and the magic it takes to define oneself in the world.
Music
13th November, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781501384554
Analyses the relationship between Charles Manson, music and 1960s counterculture.
Series Anthem Press
Hands, Wrists, Fingers Pedro de Alcantara 2nd September, hb, £80, 9781839994050
pb, eb, £29.99, 9781839994067 Practical book offering concepts and tools to help musicians of all abilities become comfortable using their hands in healthy and expressive ways.
Reading Song Lyrics Glenn Fosbraey 5th August, pb, eb, £20.99, 9781839995002
Popular song is an artform which reaches far beyond the music itself. To fully appreciate its impact,the modern critic needs to analyse the elements found outside the song as well as those within it.
Basic
Taylor’s Version Stephanie Burt 23rd October, hb, eb, £20, 9781399820608
Charts Taylor Swift’s phenomenal career. Critic and Harvard professor Burt has based this book on one of the world’s first university courses on Swift’s music.
Black Dog & Leventhal
Taylor Swift All the Songs Marine Benoit, Damien Somville
16th October, hb, eb, £55, 9780762489299
Looks at the music and creative process of the star as told through the writing and recording of every song.
Bloomsbury
The Perfect Tuba Sam Quinones 8th January, hb, eb, £22, 9781639735488
From National Book Critics Circle Award- winner a compelling story of the instrument, the people who play it and the hope they bring.
Bloomsbury Academic
The Musical Lives of Charles Manson Nicholas Tochka
Genre 13th November, pb, eb,£14.99, 9798765119
From vaporwave to death metal, trip-hop to dance punk, this series of short books guides music lovers through the myriad perplexing and provoking sub-genres. 20th Century Ambient Dusty Henry 334
Plunderphonics Matthew Blackwell 488
Series
33⅓ pb, eb, £10.99, 979876513
Widely acclaimed by fans, musicians and scholars alike, 33 ⅓ books dive deep into legendary artists, albums and genres. Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell Joel Mayward 13th November, 2760 The B-52s’ Cosmic Thing Pete Crighton 4th September, 3125
Rock of Pages Jesse Kavadlo 11th December, pb, eb, £19.99, 9798765140802
Identifies how “dangerous” 1980s
heavy metal can be analysed through literary criticism, how this type of music helps us understand what is dangerous about literature and why metal music matters.
Punk Spirit John Malkin 22nd January, hb, eb, £25, 9798881802714
Wide cast of punk musicians and artists provide surprising and thought-provoking insights into the music through the lens of spirituality, religion and social liberation.
Boydell & Brewer
The Piano in Beethoven’s Chamber Music Misha Donat
19th August, pb, eb, £39.95, 9781837652198
Donat’s vast expertise provides sharp insight into the history and genesis of key works in the composer’s repertoire.
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