- Offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts, architecture and the theatre, not simply the influence of the theatre on the arts, and vice versa
- Develops a theoretical and methodological model to study such exchanges and interactions
- Presents many new, hitherto unknown instances of the interaction between the arts, particularly architecture, and the theatre, and provides such interactions with a theoretical and historiographical context
- Authors have opened up new ways of analyzing theatricality both in the arts, architecture and the theatre