Monographien / Monographs
The theatrical public sphere (Cambridge University Press) 2014.
Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008.
Translations into Chinese (2010), Greek (2012), and Spanish (2013), Arabic (2014), Finnish (2014)
Pacific Performances; Theatricality and Cross-Cultural Encounter in the South Seas. Houndsmill: Palgrave MacMillan 2007.
Einführung in die Theaterwissenschaft. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 1999; 42007. (Polish edition: Wprowadzenie do nauki o teatrze, trans. by Wojciech Dudzik and Malgorzata Leyko, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN 2002; Arabic edition: trans. Ali Abd Alghfar Ftoom, Cairo: The Ministry of Culture, Publications of The Cairo International Festival for experimental Theatre,15th Session, September 2003.)
Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Theater im postkolonialen Zeitalter: Studien zum Theatersynkretismus im englischsprachigen Raum. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1995. (Theatron, 13).
The Reformation of Comedy: Genre Critique in the Comedies of Ödön von Horváth. Dunedin 1985 (Otago German Studies, Vol. 3).