The Performance Studies Reader. This item is unavailable.The Performance Studies Reader

The Performance Studies Reader is a lively and much-needed anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. The collection is designed as a companion to Richard Schechner's popular Performance Studies: an Introduction (Routledge, 2002), but is also ideal as a stand-alone text.
Henry Bial collects together key critical pieces from the field, referred to as 'suggested readings' in Performance Studies: an Introduction. He also broadens the discussion with additional selections. The structure and themes of the Reader closely follow those of Schechner's companion textbook. The articles in each section focus particularly on three primary areas in performance studies, theatre, anthropology and sociology/cultural studies.

Henry Bial received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University and his B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University. He has worked in close consultation with Richard Schechner to assist in the development and preparation of Performance Studies: An Introduction . Bial has also served as Conference Planner for the Performance Studies Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and has presented his scholarship in the field of Performance Studies at conferences around the world. He is the editor (with Carol Martin) of Brecht Sourcebook (Routledge 2000). Bial has taught theatre history and performance theory at New York University and The New School, and he is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of New Mexico.