Performing Arts - A Guide To Practice And Appreciation

by Michael Billington (Editor)

This book is an indispensable guide to the appreciation and practice of the many and varied forms of live performance and entertainment that have held audiences enthralled across the centuries. Its comprehensive contents include both the usual and the unusual - as well as theatre, opera, concerts, and ballet, for instance, feats of daring, mime and magic are among the subjects covered.

217 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1980