Chapter 1: Experiencing Today’s Global, Diverse Theatre: A Preview Part 1: The Audience
Chapter 2: The Audience: Its Role and Imagination
Chapter 3: Background and Expectations of the Audience
Chapter 4: The Critic and the Audience
Chapter 5: Stage Spaces Part 2: The Performers and the Director
Chapter 6: Acting: Offstage and in the Past
Chapter 7: Stage Acting Today
Chapter 8: The Director and the Producer Part 3: The Playwright: Creating the Play
Chapter 9: Creating the World of the Play
Chapter 10: Dramatic Forms: Climactic, Episodic, and Others
Chapter 11: Dramatic Characters
Chapter 12: Tragedy and Other Serious Drama
Chapter 13: Comedy and Tragicomedy Part 4: The Designers
Chapter 14: Scenery
Chapter15: Stage Costumes
Chapter 16: Lighting and Sound Part 5: The Theatre Landscape Today
Chapter 17: Global Theatre
Chapter 18: Musical Theatre
Chapter 19: Contemporary American Theatre
Appendixes
A: Synopses of Plays
B: Major Theatrical Forms and Movements
C: Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Boxed Features
Global Cross-Currents: 4 of these
A Life in the Theatre: The Artist Speaks: 8 of these
Making Connections: 7 of these
Historical Perspectives: 4 of these
Dynamics of Drama: 4 of these
Photo Essays: 9 of these
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