Andrew Friedman is Professor and Head of the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Eero Laine is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.

“Andrew Friedman and Eero Laine have brought together an impressive group of emerging and leading theatre and performance studies scholars. This book is remarkably sound and elegantly written, with chapters that reflect the authors’ deep, and often playful, engagement with ‘theatre things.’ Recentering the conversation about theatrical objects on human behaviors by asking ‘how can theatre things help audiences make meaning?’ Theatre Things invites readers to rethink the theatregoing experience.”

• ContentsAcknowledgments: ixTheatre Things: An Introduction: 1Entrances: 15Tickets: 43Concessions: 73Programs: 103Seats: 137Lights: 171Curtains: 199Stages: 227Trapdoors: 253Exits: 283Bibliography: 315Contributors: 339Index: 343

Andrew Friedman is Professor and Head of the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Eero Laine is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.

“Andrew Friedman and Eero Laine have brought together an impressive group of emerging and leading theatre and performance studies scholars. This book is remarkably sound and elegantly written, with chapters that reflect the authors’ deep, and often playful, engagement with ‘theatre things.’ Recentering the conversation about theatrical objects on human behaviors by asking ‘how can theatre things help audiences make meaning?’ Theatre Things invites readers to rethink the theatregoing experience.”

• ContentsAcknowledgments: ixTheatre Things: An Introduction: 1Entrances: 15Tickets: 43Concessions: 73Programs: 103Seats: 137Lights: 171Curtains: 199Stages: 227Trapdoors: 253Exits: 283Bibliography: 315Contributors: 339Index: 343