Theatre design reading list
Aronson, Arnold, American Set Design, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1985
Davies, Gill, Stage Source Book: Props, London: A & C Black, 2004
Docherty, Pelf, and Tim White, ed., Design for Performance: From Diaghilev to the Pet Shop Boys, London: Lynd Humphries publishers in Association with the Lethaby Press, Central St Martins College of Art & Design, 1996
Gillette, J. Michael, Theatrical Design and Production, 5th edn., Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2005
Goodwin, John, ed., British Theatre Design: The Modern Age, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989
Hoggett, Chris, Stage Crafts, London: A & C Black, 1991
Holt, Michael, Stage Design and Properties: A Phaidon Theatre Manual, revised edn., London, Phaidon Press, 1993
Mikotowicz, Thomas J., ed., Theatrical Designers: An International Biographical Dictionary, New York, Greenwood Press, 1992
Orton, Keith, Model Making for the Stage, Ramsbury, Crowood Press, 2004
Pecktal, Lynn, Designing and Drawing for the Theatre, New York: Mcgraw-Hill,1995
Reid, Francis, Designing for the Theatre, 2nd edn., London: A & C Black, 1996
Rosenfeld, Sybil, A Short History of Scene Design in Great Britain, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973
Schouvaloff, Alexander, The Thyssen-Bournemisza Collection: Set and Costume Designs for Ballet and Theatre, London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. for Sotheby's Publications,1987
Smith, Ron, American Set Design 2, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991
Southern, Richard, Changeable Scenery: Its Origin and Development in the British Theatre, London: Faber, 1952
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950
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