"Theatre: Collaborative Acts" stimulates creative thinking and discussions of artistic, social, and ethical questions through its interwoven themes of theatre as culture, collaboration, spatial art, and a fusion of the past and present. This text emphasizes the diversity of purpose and effect of theatre and the collaborative nature of the theatrical process. "Exploring Collaboration" boxes include profiles of successful artistic teams and feature a variety of approaches to the artistic process; "Exploring Historical and Cultural Perspectives" boxes offer a window on specific theatrical events; "Artists of the Theatre" boxes feature colorful and influential theatrical figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Theatre history, race and gender diversity in theatre, play interpretation, play production, theatre collaboration, analyzing theatre, and the director, actor, playwright, designer. People interested in theatre as a profession or as entertainment.