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.
Performing Waste: To Re-member Pasts and Fabulate Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera
February 25, 2026
Performing Waste offers groundbreaking insights into the vibrant interdisciplinary field of waste studies through the lens of performance and artistic practice. This pioneering collection examines how waste and wasting are performed across diverse media and genres, from Afrofuturist musical works ...
Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns
1st Edition
By Shane Breaux
February 25, 2026
This book examines musical variety clowns and the broad array of racial and ethnic impersonations they performed on four distinct touring circuits and apparatuses: the African American Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA), the Chinese American so-called Chop Suey Circuit, the Mexican and ...
No Mother, No Future: Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss
1st Edition
By Kailin Wright
February 20, 2026
No Mother, No Future investigates how theatre and performance use pregnancy loss to represent a lost future. Spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book analyzes performances that challenge dominant cultural scripts linking motherhood with futurity and nationhood in Canada and the ...
Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristin Hunt
February 13, 2026
At the intersection of performance studies and food studies, this pioneering collection explores food as more than just a subject of study—it’s a medium of artistic expression, communication, and embodied knowledge. Drawing from a decade of collaborative work through the American Society for ...
Creative Production and Management in the Performing Arts: Modus Operandi
1st Edition
By Vânia Rodrigues
January 30, 2026
This volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and work models of producing and managing theatre, dance, and performance – through the lenses of creative producers. This book suggests that ...
Dramaturgy to Make Visible: The Legacies of New Dramaturgy for Politics and Performance in Our Times
1st Edition
By Peter Eckersall
January 30, 2026
This book argues that dramaturgy makes things visible and does so in two distinct and interrelating ways: creative processes and formal elements of performance are rendered visible and readable; and performance dramaturgy becomes an expanded practice in which performance is a locus for creating ...
Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective Embodied Literary Criticism
1st Edition
By Elena M. Pellone
December 31, 2025
Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural bias towards leadership models to reconsider possibilities of working in a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative theatrical practice. It offers ways of restoring to actors a ...
Kierkegaard and the Performatics of Philosophy
1st Edition
By Leo Cabranes-Grant
December 29, 2025
This groundbreaking work explores Søren Kierkegaard as a pioneering figure in Performance Theory, revealing how his philosophical approach anticipated contemporary Performance Studies concepts. The book examines Kierkegaard's use of pseudonyms and dialectical discourse to create a performative ...
1964, A Year in African American Performance History
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By David Krasner
December 26, 2025
This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964. The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement, making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter considers individually politics, rhetoric, sports...
Becomings: Pregnancy, Phenomenology, and Postmodern Dance
1st Edition
By Johanna Kirk
December 26, 2025
This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years. Johanna Kirk discusses how choreographers negotiate identification with the look of their pregnant bodies to maintain a sense of integrity as artists and to control representations of their ...
Dancing with Georges Perec: Embodying Oulipo
1st Edition
By Leslie Satin
December 26, 2025
This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936–1983) to dance. "Dancing" addresses art-making parallels and their personal and sociocultural contexts, including Perec’s childhood loss of his parents in the Holocaust and its ...
Giving Voice: The Power of Theatre for Positive Change
1st Edition
By Carol J. Maples
December 26, 2025
This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment. Giving Voice charts a roadmap for the process of establishing a troupe, including auditioning members, utilizing authentic source ...