New Theatre/Dance books for August-October

Here are the Theatre/Dance books most recently added to the NIU library collection. Please email me with questions or concerns at mchonechase@niu.edu

African American theater: a cultural companion / Glenda Dicker/sun.

Andrew P. Wilson and the early Irish and Scottish national theatres, 1911-1950 / Steven Dedalus Burch ; with a foreword by Robert Skloot.

Arimatsu narumi shibori [videorecording] : celebrating 400 years of Japanese artisan design / produced by Arimatsu Shibori Mutsumi-kai (Japan) ; Studio Galli Productions (USA).

Art of making miniature millinery / Timothy Alberts, M. Dalton-King and Pat Henry.

Asian influence on Hollywood action films / Barna William Donovan.

Autobiography and performance / Deirdre Heddon.

Best plays theater yearbook.

Blood on the stage: milestone plays of crime, mystery, and detection : an annotated repertoire, 1900-1925 / Amnon Kabatchnik.

Body in Hollywood slapstick / Alex Clayton.

Canada on stage: scenes and monologues-- a survey of Canadian theatre-- / edited by Iris Turcott and Keith Turnbull.

Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: artistry in motion / Dan Kamin.

Drama and religion in English provincial society, 1485-1660 / Paul Whitfield White.

Final film of Laurel and Hardy: a study of the chaotic making and marketing of Atoll K / Norbert Aping ; foreword by Glenn Mitchell.

Flights of angels: my life with the Angels of light / Adrian Brooks ; photographs by Daniel Nicoletta.

Furious improvisation: how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times / Susan Quinn.

Gothic plays and American society, 1794-1830 / M. Susan Anthony.

Heart of practice: within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards / Thomas Richards.

History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett, Franklin J. Hildy.

Humana Festival: the history of new plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / Jeffrey Ullom.

Improv handbook: the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theatre, and beyond / by Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White.

Obituaries in the performing arts.

Reagan: the Hollywood years / Marc Eliot.

Respect for acting / Uta Hagen ; with Haskel Frankel.

Romantic actors and bardolatry : performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean / Celestine Woo.

Spanish film, theatre and literature in the twentieth century: essays in honour of Derek Gagen / edited by David George and John London.

Stage directions: writing on theatre, 1970-2008 / Michael Frayn.

Stage presence / Jane Goodall.

Stanislavsky system of acting: legacy and influence in modern performance / Rose Whyman.

Story of 42nd Street: the theaters, shows, characters, and scandals of the world's most notorious street / Mary C. Henderson and Alexis Greene.

Theatre studies: the basics / Robert Leach.

Theatrical improvisation: short form, long form, and sketch-based improv / Jeanne Leep ; with a foreward by Keegan-Michael Key.

Theories of performance / Elizabeth Bell.

Top hat: an illustrated history of its styling and manufacture / by Debbie Henderson.

Transnational exchange in early modern theater / edited by Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson.

Young people, new theatre: a practical guide to an intercultural process / Noël Greig.

NIU's Theatre/Dance Electronic Journals Collection

The electronic journal collection at NIU's library has changed a little bit since we lost some access to several databases and gained some access through other databases. The following is an alphabetical list of the journals to which we currently have access. As always, questions/comments can be emailed directly to me at mchonechase@niu.edu

American Drama
American Journal of Dance Therapy
American Theatre
Asian Theatre Journal
Australasian Drama Studies
Back Stage
Brecht Yearbook
Carleton Drama Review
Comparative Drama
Dance Chronicle
Dance Magazine
Dance Research
Dance Research Journal
Drama Review
Education Theatre Journal
Entertainment Design
Framework
Journal of Religion and Theatre
Literature in Performance
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
Modern Drama
Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre
Opera Quarterly
PAJ
Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
Performing Arts Journal
Platform : Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
Plays
Scenario
Screen
Shaw
Stage
TCI
TDR
Text and Performance Quarterly
Theatre
Theatre History Studies
Theatre Journal
Theatre Notebook
Theatre Research International
Theatre Survey
Theatre Topics
Tulane Drama Review

Thanks for the awesome suggestions!

Hi! I recently received a bunch of requested titles from Lori for Theatre/Dance materials for the library--thanks! This makes my job easier. I wanted to be sure to reiterate here that suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!

I will be doing some ordering over the next few days--let me know if you have questions/suggestions (mchonechase@niu.edu).

New Theatre/Dance books for August

Here are the most recent theatre/dance books to the collection. Remember that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns at mchonechase@niu.edu

Alternative theater in Taiwan : feminist and intercultural approaches / Iris Hsin-Chun Tuan.

Harry Langdon : his life and films / William Schelly.

Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / edited by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji.

New Theatre/Dance books for July

Here are the books in Theatre and Dance that the library received in July (it's a short list on account of it being summer):

Alternative theater in Taiwan : feminist and intercultural approaches / Iris Hsin-Chun Tuan.

Harry Langdon : his life and films / William Schelly.

Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / edited by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji.

As always, if you have questions regarding this or other books/resources, please let me know (mchonechase@niu.edu).

developing the library collection

Last week I started ordering the new theatre and dance materials for this year--I certainly hope that they'll be useful once they get here. The library suspended its approval plan this year, which means that I need to personally hand-pick each item that we'll acquire in theatre and dance. This is harder than it might sound, as it entails careful research and consideration of what we already have, and what we don't have but should. I need to spend 40% of the budget allocated for theatre/dance by November, so, if anyone has some suggestions, I'd love to hear them. My next round of choosing materials will probably be next month sometime, and I plan on focusing ordering copies of plays.

New NIU Dance and Theatre books at the library in June

These are the theatre and dance books added to NIU's collection for June. Questions or comments can be directed to me at mchonechase@niu.edu.

Actor's work : a student's diary / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.

Art of the Theatre Workshop / compiled and introduced by Murray Melvin.

Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.

Migrations of gesture / Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors.

Performance style and gesture in western theatre / Nicholas Dromgoole.

Reframing screen performance / Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke.

Royal Court Theatre inside out / Ruth Little & Emily McLaughlin.

Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.

Visuality in the theatre : the locus of looking / Maaike Bleeker.

New Theatre and Dance books at NIU--May 2008

Below are all the titles added to the NIU library for Theatre and Dance in May of this year. Please don't hestitate to contact me with feedback (mchonechase@niu.edu).

Adrian : silver screen to custom label / Christian Esquevin ; foreword by Yeohlee.

Art of the dramatist : and other writings on theatre / JB Priestley ; selected and introduced by Tom Priestley.

Chris Farley show : a biography in three acts / Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby.

Dancetime! [videorecording] : 500 years of social dance / Dance Through Time ; artistic director/principal choreographer, Carol Téten ; script, Morris Bobrow.

Digital practices : aesthetic and neuroesthetic approaches to performance and technology / Susan Broadhurst.

Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / Mary Fleischer.

Hiding in plain sight : the secret life of Raymond Burr / Michael Seth Starr.

In township tonight! : South Africa's black city music and theatre / David Coplan.

Jewish identities in German popular entertainment, 1890-1933 / Marline Otte.

Life beyond measure : letters to my great-granddaughter / Sidney Poitier.

Making of Theatrical Reputations Studies from the Modern London Theatre.

Medieval English comedy / edited by Sandra M. Hordis & Paul Hardwick.

Political theatre in post-Thatcher Britain : new writing : 1995-2005 / Amelia Howe Kritzer.

Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.

Up till now : the autobiography / William Shatner ; with David Fisher.

New Theatre and Dance books at NIU

Hi,

Every once in awhile, I get a report of what new theater and dance books have been added to the library's collection. Below are all the titles from April. If you're interested in any of them and need help finding them, or offer any other feedback, please let me know! (mchone-chase@niu.edu).

Acting teachers of America : a vital tradition / Ronald Rand & Luigi Scorcia.

Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim Hüsken.

Art of Charlie Chaplin : a film-by-film analysis / Kyp Harness.

Award monologues for women / edited by Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne.

Atomic blonde : the films of Mamie Van Doren / Barry Lowe ; foreword by Mamie Van Doren.

Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.

Charm and speed : virtuosity in the performing arts / V.A. Howard.

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist : adapted in twenty-four scenes with several songs and tableaux / by Neil Bartlett.

Colonial staged : theatre in colonial Calcutta / Sudipto Chatterjee.

Creating physical theater [videorecording] : the body in performance / production, Grant Davies ... [et al.]

Dancing from past to present : nation, culture, identities / edited by Theresa Jill Buckland.

Dancing on the white page : Black women entertainers writing autobiography / Kwakiutl L. Dreher.

Fosse style / by Debra McWaters ; foreword by Ben Vereen ; prologue by Mindy Aloff.

From perversion to purity : the stardom of Catherine Deneuve / edited by Lisa Downing and Sue Harris.

Global foreigners : an anthology of plays / edited by Carol Martin and Saviana Stanescu.

Historical dictionary of American theater : modernism / James Fisher, Felicia Hardison Londré.

Hollywood ambitions : celebrity in the movie age / Marsha Orgeron.

How to choreograph [videorecording] / Cathy Roe Productions.

Julie Andrews : an intimate biography / Richard Stirling.

Laughing and weeping in early modern theatres / Matthew Steggle.

Letters of Ruth Draper : self-portrait of an actress, 1920-1956 / edited by Dorothy Warren ; with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud.

Makeup artist handbook : techniques for film, television, photography, and theatre / Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall.

Making a performance : devising histories and contemporary practices / Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington.

Mary Martin, Broadway legend / Ronald L. Davis.

Millennium fashion [videorecording]: the year in fashion / a Videofashion News presentation ; Fashion News World, Inc. ; producer, Elizabeth Uss.

More scenes and monologs from the best new plays : an anthology of new dramatic writing from professionally produced plays / edited by Roger Ellis.

My life in art / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.

Onstage [videorecording] / Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Outsider : John Rockwell on the arts, 1967-2006.

Oxford guide to plays / Michael Patterson.

Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.

Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.

Physical theatres : a critical introduction / Simon Murray and John Keefe.

Physical theatres : a critical reader / edited by John Keefe and Simon Murray.

Producing & the theatre business : working in the theatre / edited by Robert Emmet Long ; foreword by Elizabeth Ireland McCann.

Radical acts : theatre and feminist pedagogies of change / edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl.

Rakugo : performing comedy and cultural heritage in contemporary Tokyo / Lorie Brau.

Realism [videorecording] : the artistic form of the truth / direction, Leyla Salem ; script, Carla Jiménez, Didac Aparicio ; English script, Chris Scherer ; a co-production of Prodimag, S.L. (Spain) and FIlms Media Group (U.S.A.).

Representing Shakespearean tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean / by Reiko Oya.

Scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.

Senses in performance / edited by Sally Banes and André Lepecki.

Silent eloquence : Lucian and pantomime dancing / Ismene Lada-Richards.

Summerfolk / by Maxim Gorky ; translated and with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.

Theatre ecology : environments and performance events / Baz Kershaw.

Theatre, education and the making of meanings : art or instument? / Anthony Jackson.

Theatre in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology / edited by David Krasner.

Theatre of genocide : four plays about mass murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia / edited by Robert Skloot.

Theatrical scene painting : a lesson guide / William H. Pinnell.

Three major plays : Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When we dead waken / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by David Rudkin.

Warm-ups and improvisation [videorecording] / Appleseed Productions.

Wooster Group work book / [edited by] Andrew Quick ; with photographs by Paula Court and Mary Gearhart.

First Posting -- An Introduction

Hello!

This blog is intended primarily for the faculty and instructors in the Theatre and Dance department at NIU. I wanted to introduce myself to you and talk a little bit about what I do.

At the NIU library, I, Sarah McHone-Chase, head the Information Delivery Services Department, which coordinates interlibrary loan requests and document/campus delivery requests. Several months ago, I also started acting as the subject specialist for the Theatre and Dance Department. This means that I am in charge of choosing the theatre and dance research resources that the library will acquire. In addition, should you need a library person to come talk to students about how to find resources at the library, I'm your librarian.

I always welcome feedback. Do you have any suggestions as to what the library should get for Theatre and Dance? Please let me know! In addition, the Theatre and Dance representative to the library is Lori Hartenhoff (email: lorijh@niu.edu) -- if you suggest something to her, she'll suggest it to me.

Please don't hesitate to contact me! My email is mchonechase@niu.edu and my office phone number is 753-9860.

Sarah