Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik explores the life and work of the pioneering scene designer whose career spanned decades in American theatre. Anne Fletcher’s i

The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what bec

By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stag

An inclusive history of the professionalization of American scenic design The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twent

This book explores an under-researched body of work from the early decades of the twentieth century, connecting plays, performances and practitioners together i