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Methuen Drama

Publishing plays and books on acting, theatre and practice for over 100 years

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UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Film, Music, Opera & Theatre

Home to 8 Nobel Prize winners, as well as Pulitzer, Tony and Olivier award winners, Methuen Drama publishes plays by writers including Sarah Kane, Katori Hall, Kwame Kwei-Armah, James Graham, and Caryl Churchill. 

Alongside our plays we publish cutting-edge critical studies, research and practical guides to all areas of drama including theatre history, acting and performance, theatre making, musical theatre and dance.

Our books and resources are for theatre-goers, students, scholars, secondary/high school teachers, practitioners, actors and theatre industry professionals. Books are available in print, ebook, audiobook and on Drama Online, Bloomsbury’s award-winning digital library.

Whether you’re looking for plays, scholarship, or practice, we've got your next inspiring read. 

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Power and Greed
Spencer Weber Waller
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Opening Doors
John Doyle
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Broadway Nation
David Armstrong
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The Godot Diaries
Lucian Msamati
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Arthur Miller’s New York
Stephen Marino
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The Mountaintop
Katori Hall
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Desdemona
Toni Morrison
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Revolutionary Women: A Lauren Gunderson Play Collection
Lauren Gunderson
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One Public
Kevin Landis
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My Shakespeare
Greg Doran
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Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth
Todd Almond
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Playwriting
Dan Rebellato
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Reader in Tragedy
Marcus Nevitt
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The Gang of Three
Robert Khan
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Jonathan Larson
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Hay Fever
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Dramatic Art
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Theatre and Neurodiversity
Amy Skinner
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The AIDS Plays Project
Charles Ludlam
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Community-based Arts, Research and Activism in Uganda
Jane Plastow
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Actors’ and Performers’ Yearbook 2027
Wendy Gadian
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Performances of Protest and Resistance
Yana Meerzon
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Anansegoro
Stephen Collins
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Global Theatre from the Cherry Collective
Frédéric Sonntag
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Night City
Max Wilkinson
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Well, I'll Let You Go
Bubba Weiler
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The Turn of the Screw
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
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Groan Ups
Henry Lewis
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Man to Man
Manfred Karge
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Lend Me Your Ears
Daniel Spector
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Intercultural Processes, Practices, and Perspectives
Bernadette Cronin
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Extended Reality Performance
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Theatre and Spirits
Alvin Eng Hui Lim
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Kicking Up a Storm
Ken Rea
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Maximize the Improv Magic
Chelsea Coleman
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Dancing Through Life
Larry Fuller
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Performing Crisis on the American and British Stage
Judith Saunders
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Dramaturgy for Theatre-makers
Paul Sirett
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Jelinek in Practice
Karen Jürs-Munby
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The Annie Phenomenon
Mark Cabaniss
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Class in British Musical Theatre
Katie Beswick
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Applied Theatre: Participation
Taiwo Afolabi
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Theatre and Indigeneity
Bethany Hughes
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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Performance and Social Action
Andrew Martínez
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Film-to-Stage Musicals
Brad Frenette
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Kyogen
Jonah Salz
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