Richard Schechner
Author of Performance Theory
About the Author
Richard Schechner is a pioneer of performance studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright, he is University Professor of Performance Studies Emeritus at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. Among his many books are show more Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993), Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004), and Performed Imaginaries (2015). His books and essays have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series, and the Enactments series. He founded The Performance Group, East Coast Artists, and East End Players and was a co-producing director of the Free Southern Theater and the New Orleans Group. He has directed theatre, led performance workshops, and lectured in the USA, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Sarah Lucie is a Ph.D. candidate in Theater and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center with an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her writing appears in The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, PAJ, Puppetry International, and e-misfrica. She also works as Assistant Editor for TDR and General Manager of East Coast Artists. show less
Works by Richard Schechner
TDR / THE DRAMA REVIEW. Volume 13, Number 3 (T43) - Spring 1969 (The Return of the Living Theatre) (1969) 4 copies
Ritual, play, and performance: Readings in the social sciences/theatre (A Continuum book) (1976) 4 copies
TDR #112 3 copies
TDR #114 3 copies
TDR #118 3 copies
THE LIVING BOOK OF THE LIVING THEATRE / with an introductory essay by Richard Schechner. (Carlo Silvestro, editor). (1971) 2 copies
TDR #146 2 copies
TDR: The drama review 1 copy
TDR #195 1 copy
The Drama Review T126 1 copy
TDR #145 1 copy
TDR #133 1 copy
TDR #194 1 copy
TDR #170 1 copy
The Decline and Fall of the (American) AvantGarde Why It Happened and What WE CAn Do About it. Memo 6 (1981) 1 copy
Teatro de Guerrilla 1 copy
Associated Works
First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game (2004) — Contributor — 170 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Schechner, Richard
- Birthdate
- 1934-08-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Education
- Tulane University (PhD|1962)
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Performance Studies: An Introduction by Richard Schechner
In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics.… (more)
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- 589
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- #42,598
- Rating
- 3.5
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- ISBNs
- 64
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- 7