Performing Arts Book Publishers

Annotated listing of publishers specializing in books about the performing arts.

74th Street Productions

74th Street Productions, established in 1996, is an independent publishing company located in the Northwest. Our mission is to develop books of high literary and artistic quality which encourage interest in Shakespeare, the theatre, other performing arts, literature and art among children and adults.

    Seattle, WA   US

Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin is Australia's leading independent publisher, producing approximately 250 new titles each year including literary and commercial fiction, a broad range of general non fiction, academic and professional titles and books for children and young adults. Imprints include Allen & Unwin, Arena, Crows Nest and Inspired Living (MBS).

    Crows Nest, NSW   AU

Amsterdam University Press

Amsterdam University Press (AUP) was established in 1992 by the University of Amsterdam and has built up a publishing list of more than 1400 titles. The scholarly and trade publications of AUP are available in Dutch or English and relate to subjects in the area of humanities (language and literature, history, film studies, art) and social sciences.

    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland   NL

Anchorage Press Plays

Anchorage Press Plays internet catalogue features play scripts for performance before young audiences (TYA), children's theatre and family theatre, middle school and high school, plus anthologies of plays and books about make-up design, creative education and theatre text books for college. We have one act & contest length plays for UIL and play festivals.

    Woodstock, IL   US

Arcade Publishing

Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. They are publishers of American and world fiction and non-fiction.

    New York, NY   US

Aunt Lute Books

Aunt Lute Books is a nonprofit multicultural women's press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years, we have been publishing literature by women whose voices have been traditionally underrepresented in mainstream and small press publishing.

    San Francisco, CA   US

Banff Centre Press

The Banff Centre Press is uniquely positioned to publish the great wealth and diversity of content written at and commissioned by The Banff Centre, the world's largest arts and creativity incubator.

    Banff, AB   CA

Bearmanor Media

A small publisher of BIG books about the entertainment of bygone years. Over 800 books in print on film, radio, TV, stage and all things entertainment.

    Albany, GA   US

Bedford St Martins

Publisher of textbooks for higher education, focusing on English, History, Music and Philosophy.

    New York, NY   US

Book*hug Press

Celebrating adventures in literary publishing since 2004, Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian independent literary press working at the forefront of contemporary book culture. Our mandate is to publish innovative and contemporary books of literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature in translation, and poetry by emerging and established writers.

    Toronto, ON   CA

Boulder Publications

Boulder Publications is an independent Canadian book publishing company headquartered in Newfoundland & Labrador, with an office in Nova Scotia.

    Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, NL   CA

Broadway Play Publishing Inc

B P P I specializes in publishing full-length, contemporary, American plays.

    New York, NY   US

Broadway Press

Publishes books for theatre designers and technicians.

    Louisville, KY   US

Cambria Press

Cambria Press is a premier publisher of peer-reviewed academic research.

    Amherst, NY   US

Chicago Review Press

Chicago Review Press is an independent publishing company founded in 1973. Over the years we have grown into a dynamic midsize publisher with more than 900 titles in print. We currently publish around 60 new annually under five imprints: Chicago Review Press, Lawrence Hill Books, Ball Publishing, Zephyr Press, and Academy Chicago. Chicago Review Press publishes general nonfiction on a wide range of subjects including music, film, popular science, history, biography, and travel, as well as an award-winning line of children's activity books. Lawrence Hill Books publishes nonfiction on topics of African American interest, progressive politics, Middle Eastern studies, and feminism. Ball Publishing specializes in gardening books, and Zephyr Press publishes professional development titles for teachers.

    Chicago, IL   US

Clifton Hills Press Inc.

Clifton Hills Press was started in 1982 by Dr. Simon V. Anderson as a way to publish textbooks for his classes at the University of Cincinnati'™s College Conservatory of Music.

    Cincinnati, OH   US

Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press was founded in 1893 and is the fourth-oldest university press in the United States. The Press currently publishes approximately 160 new titles every year in the fields of animal studies, Asian literature, Asian politics and history, biological sciences, business, culinary history, current affairs, economics, environmental sciences, film and media studies, finance, history, international affairs, literary studies, journalism, Middle Eastern studies, New York City history, philosophy, paleontology, political theory, religion, science policy, social work, and U.S. history

    New York, NY   US

Cork University Press

Cork University Press is Ireland's oldest university press. While the Press specializes in the broad field of Irish Cultural Studies, its subject range extends across the fields of music, art history, literary criticism and poetry. The focus of our list is however in the areas of Irish cultural history, archaeology and landscape studies.

    Cork, Cty Cork   IE

Crescent Moon Publishing

Crescent Moon Publishing aims to publish the best in contemporary books on literature, media, poetry, cinema, feminism, painting, sculpture and the arts

    Kent, England   UK

Dalkey Archive Press

Founded in 1984, Dalkey Archive Press is a nonprofit publisher at the University of Houston-Victoria, devoted to publishing the best contemporary literature from across the world.

Dalkey Archive Press was acquired by Deep Vellum Publishing in late 2020.

    Dallas, TX   US

Dance Books Ltd

Dance Books is the UK's only company devoted solely to the publishing of books and related materials on dance and human movement. We publish nearly 200 items and sell by mail order and through booksellers throughout the world.

    Hampshire, England   UK

Dramatic Publishing Co

Publishing fine plays since 1885, Dramatic Publishing is committed to developing and serving the authors, artists and educators who comprise the world of theatre.

    Woodstock, IL   US

Dramatists Play Service, Inc

Formed in 1936 by a number of prominent playwrights and theatre agents, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. was created to foster opportunity and provide support for playwrights by publishing acting editions of their plays and handling the nonprofessional and professional leasing rights to these works.

    New York, NY   US

Durvile Publications

Durvile Publications publishes books that demystify the professions for professionals and the informed general public. Our "True Cases" series includes books by lawyers and judges about the law, and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists about mental disorders in the justice system. Our new "UpRoute Bright Books with Bite" imprint features a series of art, music, and filmmaking survival activity books.

    Calgary, AB   CA

Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.

    Edinburgh, Scotland   UK

Eldridge Publishing

Publishes plays and musicals suitable for performance by community theatres and junior and senior high schools. We welcome shows on all subjects; however, shows with explicit adult content or graphically defined situations do not fit our market. For musicals, please include an audio sample of several songs and a few pages from the score.

    Tallahassee, FL   US

Faber & Faber

Founded in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber, Faber and Faber remains one of the UK's leading independent publishing houses. Faber publishes fiction, non-fiction, and children's books alongside its garlanded lists of poetry, drama, music and film.

    London, England   UK

Finishing Line Press

Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.

    Georgetown, KY   US

Focus Publishing

We are a innovative & affordable textbook publisher, French, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Theater, Kittredege Shakespeare, Philosophy.
In November 2014 the lists of Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company were acquired by Hackett Publishing Company, a small independent publisher with offices in Indianapolis and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Newburyport, MA   US

Four Courts Press

Four Courts Press was founded in 1970 by Michael Adams (see below) as a small press. From 1992, Four Courts Press expanded rapidly from its theology base, first into Celtic and Medieval Studies and Ecclesiastical History, and then into Modern History, Art, Literature and Law. The Press publishes some 40 titles a year. At present there are over 500 titles in print.

    Dublin,   IE

Gomer Press

Gomer Press is a printing and publishing company based in Llandysul, west Wales. The company was first established in 1892 and is owned by the same family to this day. Jonathan Lewis, the great grandson of the company's founder, is the current managing director. Gomer Press today is both a thriving printing company and the largest publishing house in Wales. Every year, we publish over 120 titles, specializing in books which have a distinctive Welsh identity.

    Ceredigion, Wales   UK

Green Integer

Essays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles, Diaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances, Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least.

    Los Angeles, CA   US

Headpress

Headpress was founded in Manchester, England, in 1991, ostensibly to release a film by cult German director Jörg Buttgereit on VHS. With revenue from the sales of that film (Der Todesking, limited to 500 copies), the publication of a magazine soon followed. Running concurrent to the magazine was the Headpress publishing arm, which began in 1992 and continues to this day. Subject matter is wide-ranging and includes cult film, strange music, pulp literature, fanzines, conspiracy theories, sex and gender, occult and folklore, true crime, and pop culture in general.

    London, England   UK

Hermes Press

Hermes Press is one of a handful of publishers which exclusively produces books and comic strip reprints focusing on the art and artists of the comics, cartoon and comic strips, pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, art books covering science fiction, and popular culture.

    New Castle, PA   US

Interlink Publishing Group

Established in 1987, Interlink Publishing is an independent publishing house specializing in: world travel, world literature, world history and politics, art,world music & dance, International cooking, and children's books from around the world. Interlink publishes approximately 50 titles each year and has an active backlist of over 1000 titles under five imprints

    Northampton, MA   US

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing is primarily a literary publisher, with several imprints including: Scirocco Drama (theatre), The Muses' Company (poetry), Watson & Dwyer Publishing (Canadian social history), and J. Gordon Shillingford (politics, sports, biography).

    Winnipeg, MB   CA

Kaya Press

Kaya Press is a group of dedicated writers, artists, readers, and lovers of books working together to publish the most challenging, thoughtful, and provocative literature being produced throughout the Asian and Pacific Island diasporas.

    Los Angeles , CA   US

Kodansha America, LLC

Kodansha celebrates and promotes all facets of Japanese culture around the world - from anime to zen.

    New York, NY   US

Lamar University Literary Press

Lamar Literary Press is one of the world’s smallest university presses. We operate with the latest in book production technology and distribution and publish original fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We accept submissions each year during the months of April and November only. However, you may make general inquiries or check on the status of a submission at any time.

    Beaumont, TX   US

Laurence King Publishers

Established in London in 1991, Laurence King Publishing is now recognised as one of the world's leading publishers of books on the creative arts.

    London, England   UK

Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press (MUP) is situated in the heart of one of the most vibrant universities and cities in the UK. Founded in 1903, publishing our first books in 1904, our distinctive brand is known globally for excellent research in the Humanities and Social Sciences from leading names and up-and-coming scholars from around the world. We currently publish over 200 books each year, as well as five journals.

    Manchester, England   UK

McFarland & Company

A leading independent publisher of academic nonfiction, McFarland is recognized for noteworthy books about pop culture, sports, military history, transportation, body & mind, literature, history and medieval studies, among other topics. McFarland currently offers nearly 7000 books in print.

    Jefferson, NC   US

McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press is a scholarly publisher that defends, refutes, and creates fresh interpretations of the world. With over 2,500 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, our goal is to produce peer-reviewed, rigorously edited, beautifully produced, intelligent, interesting books. A joint venture of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, MQUP is both a specialist in the Canadian perspective and a publisher of international themes, attracting attention from the New York Times to the Globe & Mail.

    Montreal, PQ   CA

McPherson & Company

Founded in 1974, McPherson & Company is an independent literary and arts publishing house. Here you'll find literary nonfiction and fiction (contemporary American and British fiction; translated Italian, French, and Spanish fiction), books in the arts and general culture, and a rediscovery series, Recovered Classics.

    Kingston, NY   US

Meriwether Publishing Ltd

America's foremost publisher of theatre arts books by leading drama educators and professionals in theatre worldwide.

    Colorado Springs, CO   US

Michael Wiese Productions

Leading publisher of film books on writing, directing and creating movies.

    Studio City, CA   US

Miniver Press

Miniver Press is an author-focused publishing company with a wide range of e-books and printed books, and we are always looking for lively and original non-fiction manuscripts to bring to readers.

    Washington, DC   US

Montag Press

Montag Press presents the very best in experimental, weird, subversive, speculative, science, historical, and horror fiction, in either a narrative or dramatic structure, with a strong plot, well-developed characters, and engaging voices.

    Sausalito, CA   US

Mosaic Press

Mosaic Press was founded as a Canadian publisher dedicated to presenting significant and excellent Canadian writing. In the 25 years we have been around, Mosaic Press has published over 500 books with some 20 original titles produced each year.

    Oakville, ON   CA

New Village Press

Nonprofit publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 2005, best known for books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design.

    New York, NY   US

Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press’ substantial biographies of music artists have regularly won critical acclaim and achieved best-seller status. Subjects include Morrissey, Keith Moon, Kate Bush, The Velvet Underground, ABBA and Bob Marley. Alongside the life stories of established artists, Omnibus also publish books about rising stars and cult bands. This vigorous and eclectic output has established Omnibus Press as the UK’s definitive imprint for rock biographies.

    London, England   UK

Paris Press

Paris Press is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit educational organization that publishes groundbreaking yet overlooked literature by women. The Press values work in all genres that is daring in style and in its courage to speak truthfully about society, culture, history, and the human heart.

    Ashfield, MA   US

Pioneer Drama Service

Pioneer Drama Service is an Englewood, Colorado-based publisher of plays and musicals, founded by Shubert Fendrich in 1960. The company is one of the largest play publishers in the United States, with over 900 plays and musicals currently in print, and primarily focuses on family-friendly comedies for middle schools, high schools and community theaters.

    Englewood, CO   US

Playdead Press

Playdead Press is an independent UK publishing house that specializes in the publication of new and emerging writers.

    Portsmouth, England   UK

Playwrights Canada Press

Playwrights Canada Press is a publisher of new Canadian plays. We exist to publish Canadian plays as well as, from time to time, theatre history, criticism, and biography. Through this we endeavour to raise the profile of Canadian theatre and theatre practitioners, promote dramatic literature, and contribute to the Canadian theatrical canon. Playwrights Canada Press strives to publish diverse and engaging Canadian plays and dramatic criticism of literary merit.

    Toronto, ON   CA

Prufrock Press

Prufrock Press is the nation's leading publisher supporting the education of gifted and advanced learners. Our line of more than 500 titles offers teachers and parents exciting, research-based ideas for helping gifted, advanced, and special needs learners.

    Austin, TX   US

Reaktion Books

An independent publisher of innovative and beautifully designed non-fiction books, Reaktion publishes around 90 new titles each year, while keeping an outstanding backlist of nearly 1000 titles for readers to explore.

    London, England   UK

Seagull Books

With offices in London and Calcutta, Seagull Books has dedicated itself to quality arts and culture publishing. From documentation of cultural history in the making, to building a climate of critique, its focus is firmly on the alternative and the experimental, and on the socially committed.

    Calcutta,   IN

Signature Editions

Signature Editions is a literary press with an eclectic list of quality fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama. Originally named Nuage Editions, the press was formed in Montreal in 1986 as a 16-person publishing collective. The first desktop publisher in Quebec, we put out two to four books a year for the next five years. For the past sixteen years, the press has operated as a sole proprietorship run by Karen Haughian and has published six to nine titles a year. In 1997, after eleven years of operation in Montreal, the press moved to Winnipeg and in the year 2000 was renamed Signature Editions.

    Winnipeg, MB   CA

Silman-James Press

ilman-James Press is an independent book publisher based in Los Angeles, founded in 1990 by Gwen Feldman and Jim Fox that publishes books on Filmmaking, the Motion Picture Industry, and the Performing Arts

    West Hollywood, CA   US

SisterShip Press

SisterShip Press Pty Ltd is a boutique publisher. We publish books written by women with a nautical/marine theme or a travel/adventure theme. We also provide book sales and marketing opportunities for female authors with published books that are in our niche, through promotion to our audience (including this website and our Facebook groups).

    Brogo, NSW   AU

Southern Illinois University Press

The mission of Southern Illinois University Press is to disseminate knowledge by a diverse authorship for a global readership, to expand the University's presence in ongoing scholarly dialogue, and to promote understanding of the region's history and culture. In recent years, Southern Illinois University Press has focused its list on a smaller number of areas of publication: American history (Civil War and Lincoln), aviation, botany, film studies, legal history, poetry, regional studies, rhetoric and composition, and theatre.

    Carbondale, IL   US

Stones Point Press

We are a small press Maine publisher and independent bookseller of quality books by Maine authors.

    Cushing, ME   US

TASCHEN

TASCHEN is the world’s leading art-book publisher, headquartered in Cologne with teams in Berlin, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Milan, New York, Paris and Tokyo. For more than 40 years, we have been on a mission to publish innovative illustrated books on art, architecture, design, fashion, film, lifestyle, travel, photography and pop culture and to bring them to the world. We aspire to be inclusive, independent, inspirational.

    Cologne,   DE

Teksteditions

From west-end Toronto, Ontario, not far from the Dundas West subway station, two deeply experienced editors who love books will publish texts that fit with their unique perspectives. Working from respect for the traditions and the avant garde in literature, books from Teksteditions display the convergence of likes and loves of both exciting revolutions and collaboration.

    Toronto, ON   CA

The Feminist Press

The Feminist Press publishes books that ignite movements and social transformation. Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent and marginalized voices from around the world to build a more just future.

    New York, NY   US

Transcript Verlag

transcript is one of Europe's leading independent academic publishers. We focus on publishing in cultural studies and the social sciences, in history, philosophy, and in cultural management. We offer more than 100 series and release about 400 new German- and English-language titles every year. Our backlist catalogue includes more than 3,500 titles in print and digital formats.

    Bielefeld,   DE

Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP was transformed from a 1990s zine into a Brooklyn-based small press by a volunteer editorial collective that has published more than 200 titles to date. UDP favors emerging, international, and "forgotten" writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist's books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.

    Brooklyn, NY   US

University of California Press

University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions.

    Berkeley, CA   US

University of Exeter Press

University of Exeter Press is one of only a handful of university presses in the UK. UEP is internationally recognised for its excellence in humanities publishing. Over fifty years dedicated to scholarly book publishing has provided it with a wealth of experience from which to continue to expand and develop its activities.

    Exeter, England   UK

University of Georgia Press

Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University's place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world. The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state. We currently publish 60-70 new books a year and have a long history of publishing significant scholarship, creative and literary works, and books about the state and the region for general readers.

    Athens, GA   US

University of Iowa Press

The University of Iowa Press is a well-regarded academic publisher serving scholars, students, and readers throughout the world with works of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. As the only university press in the state, Iowa is also dedicated to preserving the literature, history, culture, wildlife, and natural areas of the Midwest. For scholars and students, we publish reference and course books in the areas of archaeology, American studies, American history, literary studies, theatre studies, and the craft of writing. For general readers, we publish the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, poetry anthologies, books on the archaeology and natural history of the Midwest, cookbooks, letters and diaries, biographies, memoirs, regional history, and collections of historic and contemporary photographs.

    Iowa City, IA   US

University of Manitoba Press

U of M Press is widely recognized as a leading publisher of books on Aboriginal history, Native studies, and Canadian history. As well, the Press is proud of its contribution to immigration studies, ethnic studies, and the study of Canadian literature, culture, politics, and Aboriginal languages. It also publishes a wide-ranging list of books on the heritage of the peoples and land of the Canadian prairies.

    Winnipeg, MB   CA

University of Wisconsin Press

Since its first book appeared in 1937, the Press has published and distributed more than 3000 titles. We have more than 1400 titles currently in print, including books of general interest (biography, fiction, natural history, poetry, photography, fishing, food, travel, etc.), scholarly books (American studies, anthropology, art, classics, environmental studies, ethnic studies, film, gay & lesbian studies, history, Jewish studies, literary criticism, Slavic studies, etc.), and regional books about Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.

    Madison, WI   US

Vibrante Press

Vibrante Press is a teacher authored and teacher run press which is dedicated to exciting, engaging and unique musical and visual aids for the foreign language, ESL, ELL, Special Ed, Science and Social Studies classroom.

    Albuquerque, NM   US

Wayne State University Press

Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, African American studies, film and media, and fairy-tale studies, as well as a range of other scholarly and general interest titles, including Michigan short fiction and poetry. The Press disseminates research, advances education, and serves the local community while expanding the international reputation of the Press and the University.

    Detroit, MI   US

YouthPlays

YouthPLAYS publishes challenging and entertaining plays and musicals for schools, youth theatres, universities, community theatres and professional theatres for young audiences, focusing on scripts with significant age-appropriate roles and topics of strong youth interest.. We welcome submissions of plays and musicals that are appropriate for teen and younger actors and/or audiences. While we accept unproduced scripts, we prefer works that have had the opportunity to be refined through the production process. We only represent material for which we can be the exclusive licensing agent.

    Los Angeles, CA   US