Textbooks
Recommended/Used By 
UMHB Performance Studies, Theatre Faculty

 
 



Dr. Diane Howard

 

 
  Acting in Style
by Jerry Crawford (Brown & Benchmark)
 
   
  Autobiographical Writing and Performing: An Introductory, Contemporary Guide
to Process and Research in Speech Performance

by Diane Howard (McGraw-Hill)

 
 
 
  Dorothy Heathcote, Drama as a Learning Medium by Betty Wagner,
a National Education Association Publication, published by
Calendar Islands Publishers
 
 
 
  Enhanced by Technology, Not Diminished: A Practical Guide to Distance Communication
by Diane Howard, Ph.D. (McGraw-Hill)
 
   
 

The Essential Theater
by Oscar Brockett (Harcourt & Brace)

 
 
 
  Handbook for One-Act Plays
by the University Interscholastic League (UT at Austin)
 
 
 
  Harold Prince, from Pajama Game to Phantom of the Opera
by Carol Ilsen (UMI Research Press)
 
 
 
  Historic Costume for the Stage
by Lucy Barton (Baker)
 
 
 
 

Introduction to Performance Studies,
The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts
by Ronald Pelias (Kendall-Hunt)

 
 
 
 

The Lighting Art :The Aesthetics of Stage Lighting Design
by Richard Palmer (Prentice-Hall)

 
   
 

Performance in Life and Literature
by Paul Gray & James VanOosting (Allyn & Bacon)

 
 
 
  Performance: Texts and Contexts
by Carol Simpson Stern & Bruce Henderson (Longman)
 
 
 
  The Play's the Thing
by Marvin Carlson & Yvonne Schaefer (Longman)
 
     
  A Practical Handbook for the Actor
by Melissa Bruder, et al (Knopf)
 
     
  Stage Directing
by Jim Patterson (Pearson)
 
     
  Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life
by Richard Pilbrow (Design Press)
 
   
  Theatre: A Way of Seeing
by
Milly S. Barranger (
Wadsworth Pub. Co)
 
 
 
 

Voice Onstage and Off
by  Robert Barton & Rocco Dal Vera (Harcourt Brace)

 
   
 
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