Research and Course Guides: Theatre: Technical Theatre

Theatrical Design & Stage Management Books

Essentials of Stage Management by Peter Maccoy
ISBN: 9781408149690

Publication Date: 2014-01-01
The Potentials of Spaces: The Theory and Practice of Scenography & Performance by Alison Oddey; Christine A. White
ISBN: 9781841509495
Theatre and Stage Photography by William Kenyon Documenting theatrical and stage events under the often dramatic lighting designed for the production provides a number of specific photographic challenges, and is unlike most every other branch of photography. Theatre & Stage Photography provides an overview of basic photography as it applies to "available-light" situations, and will move both basic and experienced photographers through the process of accurately capturing both the production process and the resultant performance.
Call Number: TR817 .K46 2018 - New Book Shelf

ISBN: 9781138236271

Publication Date: 2018-02-15

Websites

Backstage World A directory designed for "people working in showbiz [who] like to look around for the latest equpiment in sound & light industry." Includes price lists, where to rent sound, light, & stage equpiment, tour / crew information and company lists, & crew booking agents, sound & light technician pool,etc.
Life Magazine photos Get ideas for sets. Browse this large collection of photos which documents life in 20th-century U.S.A.
SMNetwork A discussion board for stage managers, students and novices. Operation has been temporarily suspended until 2010, but many previous posts are still useful. Categories include Stage Management of Plays and Musicals, Students and Novice Stage Managers, Tools of the Trade and more.
Stage Lighting for Students Outstanding website by lighting designers Judy Kupferman and Jeffrey E. Salzberg.
Stage Management Manuals Links to stage manager manuals from several colleges and theaters
Stage Managers' Association The Stage Managers' Association is a professional organization created by and for stage managers. We seek to create a network through which we can share our problems, ideas, and stories; educate ourselves and those with whom we work; eliminate that isolated feeling which strikes us all from time to time; make our crazy jobs just a little easier, and help us to be better stage managers."
Stage Sets Designed by SRJC Theatre Arts faculty member Peter Crompton Peter Crompton works as a stage set designer in the San Francisco Bay area. These are some of his recent shows. All photos © Peter Crompton 2009.
Stagehand Primer by Mick Alderson. Offers definitions and tips related to safety, stage carpentry, the scene shop, electrics, Sound Department, Video Department, properties and wardrobe for stagehands.
theatrecrafts: entertainment technology resources This very colorful website claims to be the “biggest technical theatre glossary on the Web, now in its ninth year. Over 1,615 terms now listed and more added regularly.” By Jon Primrose; some definitions submitted by users. Search by word or by category (“Lighting – Beginners) or browse by letter. Based in the United Kingdom, but includes U.S. terms when known.