The first comprehensive survey of the major critical currents and approaches in the lively field of performance studies
Janelle G. Reinelt is Associate Dean in the College of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of After Brecht: British Epic Theater. Joseph R. Roach is Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and Theater Studies and African American Studies, Yale University. His book Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. He is also author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting.