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.
Arabs, Politics, and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Roaa Ali, George Potter, Samer Al-Saber
May 22, 2026
This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre. Through three sections discussing occupation and resistance, diaspora, migration, and refugees, and nationalism and belonging, this study provides nuanced responses to the contested points of intersection between Arab...
Archaeology of the Political Unconscious: Theater and Opera in East Berlin, 1967–1977
1st Edition
By Jennifer Williams
May 22, 2026
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theater and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel, and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. This volume investigates three case studies of how leading East Berlin stages ...
Beyond Innocence: Children in Performance
1st Edition
By Adele Senior
May 22, 2026
On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists. Meanwhile, across the contemporary performance landscape, children are participating as performers and collaborators in ways that resonate with this figure of the ...
Deviations in Contemporary Theatrical Anthropology: New Myths and Performative Rituals between XR, Robots and AI
1st Edition
By Ester Fuoco
May 22, 2026
This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system. This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and communicate beyond spatial and temporal ...
Performing Human Consciousness: A Philosophical Investigation into the Staging of the Mind
1st Edition
By Vanessa Dodd
May 22, 2026
Is the mind like a theatrical performance? This comparison has often been used as a conceptual tool by neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists in trying to understand what constitutes the human mind, and in particular how the comings and goings and the character transformations on the stage...
Post-choreography: Jérôme Bel’s Choreography and Movement in Malfunction
1st Edition
By Shuntaro Yoshida
May 22, 2026
This book sheds light on the practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art.Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur workshop participants. The focus is on ...
Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects: Volume II Contemporary Branchings: Secular Benedictions, Activated Energies, Uncanny Faiths
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Orenstein, Tim Cusack
May 22, 2026
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, ...
The Adaptable Degree: How Education in Theatre Supports the Economy of The Future
1st Edition
By Melanie Dreyer-Lude
May 22, 2026
This book utilized a mixed-methods research study of the career experiences of theatre graduates in the U.S. to provide data on employment patterns and job satisfaction. With a population of over 1,000 participants, this study examined where graduates were working, how their careers had changed ...
The Human Touch: Redefining the Art of British Contemporary Improvisational Theatre
1st Edition
By Chloé Arros
May 22, 2026
The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, and their relationships to each other. Vulnerability is a main feature of ...
Routledge Companion to Performance and Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Maaike Bleeker, Norah Zuniga Shaw
May 18, 2026
Technology has become fully integrated into the ecologies in which we live, including our ways of making and making sense of theater, dance, and performance. While these practices have long histories of incorporating tools and instruments in live performances, from masks, to amplification, lighting...
Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context
1st Edition
By Jim Curtis
April 29, 2026
This book provides an in-depth analysis of Anton Chekhov’s four great plays within their cultural context: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. The author explores how Chekhov’s historical situation as a non-aristocratic writer gave him an intense awareness of his ...
Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight
1st Edition
By Mark Broomfield
April 21, 2026
This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden ...