Methuen Drama
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Play publishers for over 100 years, with books on acting, theatre performance and production. An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musicals, Jukebox Musicals & Queer Musicals🎭
Introducing Essential Musicals, our brand-new series kicking off with 3 volumes.
Start exploring today: https://bit.ly/3VTFaEL
Introducing Essential Musicals, our brand-new series kicking off with 3 volumes.
Start exploring today: https://bit.ly/3VTFaEL
Ntombizodwa Nyoni's play 'Liberation' has been shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award 2025 🎉
Congrats to all shortlisted playwrights!
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Congrats to all shortlisted playwrights!
https://bit.ly/48Boxnc
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ntombizodwa Nyoni's play 'Liberation' has been shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award 2025 🎉
Congrats to all shortlisted playwrights!
https://bit.ly/48Boxnc
Congrats to all shortlisted playwrights!
https://bit.ly/48Boxnc
*Out now*
'Once in the Countryside' edited by Christine Mok is celebrated Chinese-American playwright Lloyd Suh's first play collection, bringing together hit plays for the first time including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Far Country.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/4ofdebf
'Once in the Countryside' edited by Christine Mok is celebrated Chinese-American playwright Lloyd Suh's first play collection, bringing together hit plays for the first time including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Far Country.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/4ofdebf
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
*Out now*
'Once in the Countryside' edited by Christine Mok is celebrated Chinese-American playwright Lloyd Suh's first play collection, bringing together hit plays for the first time including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Far Country.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/4ofdebf
'Once in the Countryside' edited by Christine Mok is celebrated Chinese-American playwright Lloyd Suh's first play collection, bringing together hit plays for the first time including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Far Country.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/4ofdebf
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What do you get if you cross Conversation Analysis with Dramatic Performance?
(Social Interaction)²
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(Social Interaction)²
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Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance
At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What do you get if you cross Conversation Analysis with Dramatic Performance?
(Social Interaction)²
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(Social Interaction)²
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Internationally celebrated director John Doyle was an unlikely revolutionary. In 'Opening Doors', he reflects on the 50-year theatrical journey taken by a boy who never dreamt it could happen to him.
Pre-order today: https://bit.ly/4oNY6l2
Pre-order today: https://bit.ly/4oNY6l2
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Internationally celebrated director John Doyle was an unlikely revolutionary. In 'Opening Doors', he reflects on the 50-year theatrical journey taken by a boy who never dreamt it could happen to him.
Pre-order today: https://bit.ly/4oNY6l2
Pre-order today: https://bit.ly/4oNY6l2
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Just published! The new edition of the definitive guide for reflective professionals at every stage of their career, fully updated by @paulashwin.bsky.social and an expert author team.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just published! The new edition of the definitive guide for reflective professionals at every stage of their career, fully updated by @paulashwin.bsky.social and an expert author team.
Now 30% off: https://bit.ly/3KiWPDM
💡📚 #BookSky #AcademicSky @bloomsburyaced.bsky.social
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Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology edited by Caridad Svich explores pieces made during the pandemic for hybrid and audio performance, including podcasts, multi-location theatre and interactive livestream. Now in the Core Collection: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology edited by Caridad Svich explores pieces made during the pandemic for hybrid and audio performance, including podcasts, multi-location theatre and interactive livestream. Now in the Core Collection: https://bit.ly/3AtVODT
From beginning, middle, to end 💙
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
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@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
From beginning, middle, to end 💙
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
@deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social
Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF
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We're thrilled to announce that 29 Bloomsbury titles have been recognized as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025! Browse the winners: https://bit.ly/48d8pcW
#AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky @choicereviews.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky @choicereviews.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We're thrilled to announce that 29 Bloomsbury titles have been recognized as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025! Browse the winners: https://bit.ly/48d8pcW
#AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky @choicereviews.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky @choicereviews.bsky.social
*New research*
'Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture' by Thea Brejzek & Lawrence Wallen explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making through a range of global case studies.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3WZz8Dc
'Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture' by Thea Brejzek & Lawrence Wallen explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making through a range of global case studies.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3WZz8Dc
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
*New research*
'Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture' by Thea Brejzek & Lawrence Wallen explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making through a range of global case studies.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3WZz8Dc
'Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture' by Thea Brejzek & Lawrence Wallen explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making through a range of global case studies.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/3WZz8Dc
James Graham's 'Punch' and Alice Birch's 'Romans: A Novel' nominated for Best Play at the Standard Theatre Awards 2025 ✨
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/standard-theatre-awards-2025-nominees-in-ful
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/standard-theatre-awards-2025-nominees-in-ful
Standard Theatre Awards 2025: nominees in full
Rachel Zegler, Jonathan Bailey and Tom Hiddleston are among the household names up for the Standard Theatre Awards 2025
www.thestage.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
James Graham's 'Punch' and Alice Birch's 'Romans: A Novel' nominated for Best Play at the Standard Theatre Awards 2025 ✨
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/standard-theatre-awards-2025-nominees-in-ful
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/standard-theatre-awards-2025-nominees-in-ful
Out now:
'Latin American Plays in Translation' edited by @witchywonderer.bsky.social features 6 new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, translated into English for the very first time.
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'Latin American Plays in Translation' edited by @witchywonderer.bsky.social features 6 new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, translated into English for the very first time.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/3WwQSpl
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Out now:
'Latin American Plays in Translation' edited by @witchywonderer.bsky.social features 6 new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, translated into English for the very first time.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/3WwQSpl
'Latin American Plays in Translation' edited by @witchywonderer.bsky.social features 6 new plays from Latin America's most exciting and incisive playwrights, translated into English for the very first time.
Shop now: https://bit.ly/3WwQSpl
Out today: Notes from a Working-Class Playwright✍️
Award-winning British playwright, composer & screenwriter @leobutler.bsky.social looks back over 25 years of writing & his experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights.
Available in print, ebook & audio: https://bit.ly/4hIXt9V
Award-winning British playwright, composer & screenwriter @leobutler.bsky.social looks back over 25 years of writing & his experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights.
Available in print, ebook & audio: https://bit.ly/4hIXt9V
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Out today: Notes from a Working-Class Playwright✍️
Award-winning British playwright, composer & screenwriter @leobutler.bsky.social looks back over 25 years of writing & his experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights.
Available in print, ebook & audio: https://bit.ly/4hIXt9V
Award-winning British playwright, composer & screenwriter @leobutler.bsky.social looks back over 25 years of writing & his experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights.
Available in print, ebook & audio: https://bit.ly/4hIXt9V
🎭 Upcoming release! 🌟
On 22 January, dive into the first detailed history of Cambridge Footlights in 40+ years!
Robert Sellers chronicles the evolution of Britain’s oldest student sketch comedy troupe, from its creation in the 1880s to the present.
👉 Pre-order now: https://bit.ly/4iBD3Al
On 22 January, dive into the first detailed history of Cambridge Footlights in 40+ years!
Robert Sellers chronicles the evolution of Britain’s oldest student sketch comedy troupe, from its creation in the 1880s to the present.
👉 Pre-order now: https://bit.ly/4iBD3Al
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🎭 Upcoming release! 🌟
On 22 January, dive into the first detailed history of Cambridge Footlights in 40+ years!
Robert Sellers chronicles the evolution of Britain’s oldest student sketch comedy troupe, from its creation in the 1880s to the present.
👉 Pre-order now: https://bit.ly/4iBD3Al
On 22 January, dive into the first detailed history of Cambridge Footlights in 40+ years!
Robert Sellers chronicles the evolution of Britain’s oldest student sketch comedy troupe, from its creation in the 1880s to the present.
👉 Pre-order now: https://bit.ly/4iBD3Al
Barbara Bergin nominated for Dublin Gothic🎉
Congrats to all the nominees!
Congrats to all the nominees!
Broadway writer Bess Wohl and British-Irish debut playwright Hannah Doran are among the 10 finalists for this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
Bess Wohl and Hannah Doran among Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalists
Broadway writer Bess Wohl and British-Irish debut playwright Hannah Doran are among the 10 finalists for this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
www.thestage.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Barbara Bergin nominated for Dublin Gothic🎉
Congrats to all the nominees!
Congrats to all the nominees!
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Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush @nationaltheatre.org.uk @methuendrama.bsky.social @danrebellato.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Published next Monday with a beautiful introduction by Dan Rebellato that makes me teary and blush @nationaltheatre.org.uk @methuendrama.bsky.social @danrebellato.bsky.social
Have you explored our Theatre Makers series?
Diaries, letters, essays & interviews give unique insight into the philosophies &methods of practitioners who have shaped (and continue to shape) what theatre is today.
Enjoy 30% off in our festive sale: https://t.co/xI3Sy30CID
Diaries, letters, essays & interviews give unique insight into the philosophies &methods of practitioners who have shaped (and continue to shape) what theatre is today.
Enjoy 30% off in our festive sale: https://t.co/xI3Sy30CID
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Have you explored our Theatre Makers series?
Diaries, letters, essays & interviews give unique insight into the philosophies &methods of practitioners who have shaped (and continue to shape) what theatre is today.
Enjoy 30% off in our festive sale: https://t.co/xI3Sy30CID
Diaries, letters, essays & interviews give unique insight into the philosophies &methods of practitioners who have shaped (and continue to shape) what theatre is today.
Enjoy 30% off in our festive sale: https://t.co/xI3Sy30CID
“Reliably excellent.” – The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory
Interested in contributing to the Methuen Drama Engage series, edited by Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam.bsky.social) & Enoch Brater?
We’re welcoming proposals now. Details here: https://bit.ly/3T7T6tG
Interested in contributing to the Methuen Drama Engage series, edited by Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam.bsky.social) & Enoch Brater?
We’re welcoming proposals now. Details here: https://bit.ly/3T7T6tG
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Reliably excellent.” – The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory
Interested in contributing to the Methuen Drama Engage series, edited by Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam.bsky.social) & Enoch Brater?
We’re welcoming proposals now. Details here: https://bit.ly/3T7T6tG
Interested in contributing to the Methuen Drama Engage series, edited by Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam.bsky.social) & Enoch Brater?
We’re welcoming proposals now. Details here: https://bit.ly/3T7T6tG
From South Africa to Cuba, India to Hungary & more, enjoy 30% off our global Play Collections (excl. pre-orders) during our festive sale.
Shop now: https://t.co/wr57jqaGoi
Shop now: https://t.co/wr57jqaGoi
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
From South Africa to Cuba, India to Hungary & more, enjoy 30% off our global Play Collections (excl. pre-orders) during our festive sale.
Shop now: https://t.co/wr57jqaGoi
Shop now: https://t.co/wr57jqaGoi
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Chuffed to get this first review!
"Smart, layered, and often quite funny in its observations about how white male identity has been staged, protected, and parodied over decades."
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog:
https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog:
https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh
Book review: Straight White Men Can't Dance - LouReviews
Addie Tsai's book, Straight White Men Can't Dance, examines how straight white male identity is constructed in American pop culture through dance and movement. Blending academic analysis with relatabl...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Chuffed to get this first review!
"Smart, layered, and often quite funny in its observations about how white male identity has been staged, protected, and parodied over decades."
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog:
https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog:
https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh
Book review: Straight White Men Can't Dance - LouReviews
Addie Tsai's book, Straight White Men Can't Dance, examines how straight white male identity is constructed in American pop culture through dance and movement. Blending academic analysis with relatabl...
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Smart, layered, and often quite funny in its observations about how white male identity has been staged, protected, and parodied over decades."
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog:
https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social's 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' reviewed on Lou Reviews Blog:
https://bit.ly/47L7Wyh
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Our Holiday Sale begins today! Get ahead of holiday shopping with sitewide deals on this season's most giftable books.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Our Holiday Sale begins today! Get ahead of holiday shopping with sitewide deals on this season's most giftable books.
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#Nonfiction
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#Nonfiction
*Out now*
Christopher Bigsby's 'Four Contemporary American Playwrights' continues his series exploring the careers of 28 playwrights. This volume covers the work of four male writers: Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam & Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/49tlaRn
Christopher Bigsby's 'Four Contemporary American Playwrights' continues his series exploring the careers of 28 playwrights. This volume covers the work of four male writers: Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam & Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/49tlaRn
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
*Out now*
Christopher Bigsby's 'Four Contemporary American Playwrights' continues his series exploring the careers of 28 playwrights. This volume covers the work of four male writers: Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam & Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/49tlaRn
Christopher Bigsby's 'Four Contemporary American Playwrights' continues his series exploring the careers of 28 playwrights. This volume covers the work of four male writers: Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam & Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/49tlaRn
'We Are Proud to Present...' by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury premiered on this day, 15th November 2012, off-Broadway at Soho Rep.
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Shop now: https://t.co/uXrMDZ2KVa
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
'We Are Proud to Present...' by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury premiered on this day, 15th November 2012, off-Broadway at Soho Rep.
Shop now: https://t.co/uXrMDZ2KVa
Shop now: https://t.co/uXrMDZ2KVa
Winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Play, Terrence McNally's Master Class premiered on this day, 15th November 1995, on Broadway.
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Shop now: https://t.co/Yq5HowubSn
![Front cover of Master Class by Terrence McNally.
"McNally's well-crafted, quip-filled drama [...] is less a biography and more a love letter to La Divina." - Entertainment Weekly](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:swihqwy34h3j327ecoh775uk/bafkreieafurfdytr6hepssjue7bq6enqiji5rrruasbz4rf6z72qujuxui@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Play, Terrence McNally's Master Class premiered on this day, 15th November 1995, on Broadway.
Shop now: https://t.co/Yq5HowubSn
Shop now: https://t.co/Yq5HowubSn
*New research*
'Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht' by Katherine Hollander is an illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht who produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature & theory while in exile from Nazi Germany.
https://bit.ly/3JssZfJ
'Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht' by Katherine Hollander is an illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht who produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature & theory while in exile from Nazi Germany.
https://bit.ly/3JssZfJ
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
*New research*
'Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht' by Katherine Hollander is an illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht who produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature & theory while in exile from Nazi Germany.
https://bit.ly/3JssZfJ
'Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht' by Katherine Hollander is an illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht who produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature & theory while in exile from Nazi Germany.
https://bit.ly/3JssZfJ