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Play publishers for over 100 years, with books on acting, theatre performance and production. An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. 🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/methuendrama ✉️ www.bloomsbury.com/methuen-drama-newsletter/

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 21d

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

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 1d

"One of the best books I have read on musical theatre: timely, honest, lively, and full of love."

Thanks @loureviewsblog.bsky.social for this review of David Armstrong's Broadway Nation!

Read the review ⬇️ https://loureviews.blog/2025/10/07/book-review-broadway-nation/

Book review: Broadway Nation - LouReviews

LouReviews is a website which reviews, promotes and supports the arts - London theatre, films, books and digital theatre/TV

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 2d

Discover a new way to engage with academic thought. 🎧📚

Available on Spotify, Audible or wherever you listen to audiobooks!

#Nonfiction #Booksky

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 4d

(Re)attend the tale of Sweeney Todd with award-winning Sondheim expert Rick Pender!

📕 Just published: https://bit.ly/46PdNSC

#BookSky #Broadway #TheatreSky @methuendrama.bsky.social

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 6d

Last chance!

Enjoy 30% off books in our Back to School sale and start the new academic year right🎓
Ends midnight this Sunday October 5th.

Shop Methuen Drama https://bit.ly/4mRMhcs

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 7d

Peek into Sondheim's puzzler's mind with this new book, praised by Melissa Errico and Seth Rudetsky.

📚💙 https://geni.us/FxfrMB 💡

#Broadway #TheatreSky @methuendrama.bsky.social

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 7d

“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

Methuen Drama Engage series Call for Proposals with book jackets

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 8d

"Deeply grounded in scholarship yet accessible to a broad readership."

Kate Craddock & Helen Freshwater's 'Theatre and its Audiences' reviewed in Critical Stages/Scènes critiques 👇

https://www.critical-stages.org/31/theatre-and-its-audiences-reimagining-the-relationship-in-times-of-crisis/

Theatre and its Audiences: Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis

By Kate Craddock and Helen FreshwaterMethuen, 256 pp. Reviewed by Katayoun Salmasi* When the COVID-19 pandemic hit — an art form rooted in shared presence, physical space, and communal ritual…

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 9d

Have you shopped our Back to Uni sale? You have until this Sunday 5th October to enjoy 30% off on books to start the new academic year right 🎓

Shop Methuen Drama https://bit.ly/4mRMhcs

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 10d

Alistair McDowall Plays 2 is out now!

This second collection features 5 plays on the theme of violence, purpose, perception, and reality, with an introduction by Vicky Featherstone.

Shop now: https://bit.ly/4pgzXV4

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 10d

New research:

Taiwo Afolabi's 'Applied Theatre: Participation' explores and critiques the concept of participation both theoretically and practically, through case studies drawn from places including Kenya, Brazil & Canada.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4mN0vv6

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 13d

Winner of the AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Book Prize 2024 and now available in paperback:

'The Art Gallery on Stage: New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting' by Mariacristina Cavecchi .

Shop now: https://bit.ly/4mrIUcg

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 14d

Start the new academic year with new books 🎓 Stock up on all the books you need for classes at 30% off in our sale until 5th October.

Shop Methuen Drama https://bit.ly/4mRMhcs

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 14d

Applications for The Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with @writersandartists.bsky.social are now open.

If you're an early career researcher, based in the UK, looking to get published, apply before 1st October 👉 https://bit.ly/4nd2sBp

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 15d

Marking the 50th anniversary of leading theatre company @druidtheatre.bsky.social 'Druid Theatre 1975-2025' collects six of its most impactful plays, together in one volume for the first time.

Out now: https://bit.ly/3VfRvD9

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 16d

OUT NOW

Addie Tsai’s 'Straight White Men Can’t Dance' interrogates popular American media portrayals of white male movement, analysing how such representations reflect gender and race ideologies.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/3HKDGJB

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to see Methuen Drama playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni nominated in the Best Playwright category of the Black British Theatre Awards 2025👏

Congrats to fellow nominees Anne Odeke & Coral Wylie too!
blackbritishtheatreawards.com

Black British Theatre Awards | Celebrating Excellence in Cutting-Edge Performances

The Black British Theatre Awards, where excellence meets innovation on stage. Recognise the finest talent and groundbreaking productions that push boundaries. Celebrate Black British theatre, where ar...

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 17d

Volume 2 of the bestselling 'The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays' is out now!

Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan & Angela Farr Schiller, it features 8 new plays curated via an open submission policy.

Shop now: https://bit.ly/4gq58t7

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 20d

David Armstrong sat down with New Day Northwest to talk about his book “Broadway Nation” which chronicles how Broadway musicals were created.

Watch the full interview: https://bit.ly/4naSYXM

📚💙 #TheatreSky @methuendrama.bsky.social

'Broadway Nation' chronicles how Broadway musicals were created - New Day NW

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 20d

Playbill chats to Robert W. Schneider, author of 'Queer Musicals: Boy Meets Boy to Jagged Little Pill' (published yesterday!)

Read now: https://playbill.com/article/queer-musicals-from-boy-meets-boy-to-jagged-little-pill-traces-lgbtqia-representation-in-theatre

Queer Musicals: From Boy Meets Boy to Jagged Little Pill Traces LGBTQIA+ Representation in Theatre

The new book by Robert W. Schneider explores 10 musicals that revolutionized queer storytelling.

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 20d

Out now:

Gary Owen's 'Iphigenia in Splott' in a new Student Edition with commentary by Lucy Jackson which considers the play's roots in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, the presentation of class and impact of austerity, and the language, structure and themes of the play.

https://bit.ly/465mS9F

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 21d

Laura Wade’s incisive study of the idealization of gender norms remains as topical as ever as it asks: how happily married are the happily married?

bit.ly/3IJdGOT

📚💙 #TheatreSky @methuendrama.bsky.social

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Dr. Barry Houlihan @barryhoulihan.bsky.social · 20d

So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and Máiréad Ní Chrónín.

Druid Theatre @druidtheatre.bsky.social · 22d

It's publication day of our new book!

Druid Theatre 1975-2025
50 Years of New Irish Plays

Marking our 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of Druid's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.

A copy of the book stacked on some other copies of the book. Behind are some show posters.

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 21d

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

Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 21d

Sex, cake and the quest to be the 'perfect' housewife.

Laura Wade's 'Home, I'm Darling', winner of the 2019 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, is the latest addition to our Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Tamara Harvey.

https://bit.ly/3IJdGOT

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Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social · 21d

Happy publication day to 'The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays', edited by @wjg22.bsky.social & Sophie Stevens!

Featuring the work of 6 playwrights published in English for the first time.

Find out more: bit.ly/4lF6S2y