DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Batsford
experimental theatre to the masses in Depression- era America and the self- serving politicians that engineered its downfall.
McFarland
Shakespeare for Every Night of the Year Colin Salter 11th April, hb, eb, £25, 9781849948241
Sumptuous anthology of Shakespeare, selected to provide a dose of romance, drama and adventure at the end of each day.
Chicago Review Press
Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More Tom Moore, Adrienne Barbeau, Ken Waissman 5th March, pb, £17.95, 9780913705698 Collection of memories and stories from actors, musicians and the creative teams who were part of the original Broad- way production and the many touring companies Grease spawned.
Clemson University Press
The Gentleman Dancing-master Jennifer Thorp 1st February, hb, eb, £115, 9781638040958 Study of the career and dances of Mr Isaac, danc- ing-master at the court of Queen Anne.
D Giles
Crafting the Ballets Russes Robinson McClellan, Lynn Garafola 25th June, hb, £30, 9781913875671 Fresh look at the ground- breaking artistic collabo- rations of the Ballets Russes uses a rich trove of visual material to reveal the joint creative process behind the ballets.
Faber & Faber
The Playbook James Shapiro 30th May, hb, eb, £25, 9780571372768 From the Winner of Winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize a dramatic story of attempts to bring
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Hamilton, History and Hip-hop Kevin J Wetmore, Jr (ed) 29th February, pb, £65, 9781476671796 Collection of scholarly essays and personal responses that contextu- alises “Hamilton: An American Musical” in vari- ous frameworks.
To Gender or Not to Gender Margaret J. Oakes 31st March, pb, £55, 9781476683539 Explores ways in which gender has been reinter- preted by British and North American Shake- speare productions since the turn of the millennium.
Methuen Drama SERIES
Student Editions pb, eb, 978135 Provide expertly anno- tated texts of a wide range of plays, both clas- sic and contemporary, alongside in-depth commentary on the back- ground, themes and history of the play. The Mountaintop Katori Hall, Harvey Young 22nd February, £12.99, 0187955 Posh Laura Wade, Henry Bell (ed) 22nd February, £12.99, 0235762 The Women of Troy Euripides, Don Taylor (tr), Emma Cole 11th July, £10.99, 0358324
200 Themes for Devising Theatre With 11-18 Year Olds Jason Hanlan 22nd February, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781350279636 Resource book for drama teachers provides 200 stimuli and age-appropri- ate topics to help inspire and guide young people in devising performance.
An Actor’s Guide to Corporate Role Play Syrus Lowe 18th April, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781350289895 Provides actors with everything they need to start and build a side career in corporate role play, utilising all the skills they already have in their portfolio.
Theatre Lighting Design Rob Halliday, Emma Chapman 18th April, pb, eb, £28.99, 9781350295926 Practical book offers a bridge between the basic skills of lighting design to taking the early steps as a professional through inspiration from estab- lished designers.
SERIES
Decolonizing the Theatre Space Simeilia Hodge- Dallaway, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Olivia Poglio-Nwabali 8th February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781350205130 Interviews with pioneering Black cultural leaders in the arts within the UK, US and Africa exploring the
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
Topics in Musical Teatre 11th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 97813503 Short, introductory books on significant theories, concepts, forms and elements of musical theatre. Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre Stacy Wolf, Paige Allen 50137
change happening in decolonising arts spaces now.
The Theatre and its Double Mark Taylor-Batty (tr), Antonin Artaud, Mark Taylor-Batty (ed) 22nd February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781350288713 New translation of Artaud’s canonical text conveys his words and ambitions in an appealing and contemporary English.
ANCE, DRAMA & THEATRE
Adaptation in Musical Theatre Adam Rush 81797
Collected Plays Abhishek Majumdar 16th May, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350423664 The first English-language anthology of Majumdar’s most popular plays, including “9 Kinds of silence”, demonstrates a powerful and challenging body of dramatic work.
Song of the Season Thomas Hischak 18th April, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350423718 Placing the score front and centre of the narra- tive, this is a critical historical survey of nota- ble songs from Broadway musicals from 1891 to 2023.
SERIES
Modern Classics 13th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 97813504 Draws on the flagship Modern Plays series to showcase vital contempo- rary plays from world- leading dramatists. Desdemona Toni Morrison 28980 Wolf Play Hansol Jung 29826 Girls Theresa Ikoko 29949 Enron Lucy Prebble 30884
New World Library
Stories Sell Matthew Dicks 11th July, pb, £17.99, 9781608689040 A guide to using the power of storytelling for success in business of all types and sizes, whether you’re an online marketer, advertising professional, small business owner or independent contractor.
Northwestern University Press
Race and the Forms of Knowledge Ben Spatz 15th February, pb, £35.95, 9780810146587 Interrogates the form and meaning of artistic research, examining its development while high- lighting its radical poten- tial when reframed as a lineage of critical white- ness practice.
Orange Hippo! The Little Book of Drag
Orange Hippo! 9th May, hb, eb, £6.99, 9781800696235 Celebration of all things drag, serving fun with facts and history and quotes from the queens.
Oxford University Press
Tell It to the World David Savran 15th March, hb, eb, £22.99, 9780190249533 A look at how the Broad- way musical travels the world, influencing and even transforming local practices and traditions.
Princeton University Press
The Philosophical Stage Joshua Billings 4th June, pb, eb, £22, 9780691225074 Bold new reconception of Ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking.
Reaktion
The English Actor Peter Ackroyd 1st February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781789148398 Original and superbly entertaining appraisal of the uniquely English approach to stagecraft.
Supernova Books
Feminist Theatre— Then and Now Elaine Aston 25th May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781913641382 Celebrates the creativity of women in theatre to get produced and promote social justice. In 20+ essays and inter- views Aston gives insight into the experience of women working in theatre today.
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Lecoq Abigail Rokison- Woodall, Ed Woodall 13th June, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781350244092 Provides practical insights into how the work of Jacques Lecoq can be applied to the rehearsal process for a Shakespeare play or scene-study.
Unicorn
A Sense of Theatre Richard Pilbrow 1st March, vol 1, hb, £40, 9781916846036 Eyewitness account of the birth and subsequent triumph of one of the world’s most famous
theatres, the National Theatre.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward Oliver Soden 14th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781474612821 Sparkling, revelatory life story by the award- winning biographer of Michael Tippett celebrates Coward as a pioneer in life, art and sexuality.
Wesleyan University Press
Fraught Balance Shayna M Silverstein 7th May, pb, £19.95, 9780819501035 Vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions reveals the many contra- dictions of Syrian identity in the 21st century.
Simone Forti Ann Cooper Albright 5th March, hb, £33.50, 9780819501097 Dance scholar Cooper Albright braids archival research, extensive inter- views and detailed move- ment analyses of Forti’s performances to provide the first kinaesthetically informed and critically nuanced history of her multifaceted career.
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