Theatre and Performing Arts Collections
Theatre and Performing Arts Collections

Author: Lee Ash

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-19

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1136565434

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Here is an exciting book that provides detailed descriptions of dozens of the most important and unique collections of “theatricana” in the United States and Canada. In Theatre and Performing Arts Collections, distinguished theatre specialists, librarians, and curators describe the unique possessions of the best and largest collections in theatre and performing arts. Each chapter provides detailed descriptions of the collections, as well as important notes about their history--information that is not available in any other source!

Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries
Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries

Author: Carolyn A. Sheehy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1994-07-21

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 031336382X

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This professional reference provides solid advice to academic and public librarians for managing performing arts collections. The volume is divided into sections on the history of performing arts librarianship, dance collections, film studies collections, music collections, and theater collections. Each chapter is written by one or more expert contributors and presents current and reliable information on collection management. They discuss personnel management, collection development, technical services, public services, the impact of new technologies, facilities management, financial planning, and political considerations. Each chapter closes with references cited in the chapter, and the volume concludes with a valuable selected, annotated bibliography of important background sources and management tools.

Dictionary of the Theatre
Dictionary of the Theatre

Author: Patrice Pavis

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780802081636

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An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author: Katherine Brisbane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-16

Total Pages: 703

ISBN-13: 1134929781

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This volume featrues over 250,000 words and more than 125 photographs identifying and defining theatre in more than 30 countries from India to Uzbekistan, from Thailand to New Zealand and featuring extensive documentation on contemporary Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Australian theatre.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author: Peter Nagy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 1082

ISBN-13: 1136118128

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The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre:Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic Profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author: Ousmane Diakhate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 1136359567

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Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.