New Theatre/Dance books for November

Welcome to the Spring semester! Here are the new books from November. As always, feel free to contact me at mchonechase@niu.edu

Acting in musical theatre: a comprehensive course / Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera.

Acting the song: performance skills for the musical theatre / by Tracey Moore, with Allison Bergman.

All in the timing: fourteen plays / David Ives.

American puppet modernism: essays on the material world in performance / John Bell.

American women stage directors of the twentieth century / Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow.

Applied theatre reader / edited by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston.

Art & artifice and other essays on illusion: concerning the inventors, traditions, evolution & rediscovery of stage magic : with twenty-three diagrams / Jim Steinmeyer ; foreword by Neil Gaiman.

Art of the turnaround: creating and maintaining healthy arts organizations / Michael M. Kaiser.

Balanchine the teacher: fundamentals that shaped the first generation of New York City Ballet dancers / Barbara Walczak and Una Kai.

Balanchine variations / Nancy Goldner.

Cambridge guide to American theatre / edited by Don B. Wilmeth ; assistant to the editor, Leonard Jacobs.

Chance and circumstance: twenty years with Cage and Cunningham / Carolyn Brown.

Claudette Colbert: she walked in beauty / Bernard F. Dick.

Comedy Tonight! / [editor, Jay Malarcher].

Director's craft: a handbook for the theatre / by Katie Mitchell.

Drama: learning connections in primary school / Barbara Poston-Anderson.

Dying swans and madmen: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / Adrienne L. McLean.

Female mourning in medieval and Renaissance English drama: from the raising of Lazarus to King Lear / Katharine Goodland.

Gender gymnastics: performing and consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue / Leonie R. Stickland.

Generating theatre meaning: a theory and methodology of performance analysis / Eli Rozik.

Hat talk: conversations with hat makers about their hats-- the Fedora, Homburg, straw, and cap / by Debbie Henderson.

Historical dictionary of postmodernist literature and theater / Fran Mason.

How to do accents / Edda Sharpe, Jan Haydn Rowles.

Journey of the tall horse: a story of African theatre / Mervyn Millar.

Management and the arts / William J. Byrnes ; foreword by Dan J. Martin.

Native Shakespeares: indigenous appropriations on a global stage / edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia.

Out plays: landmark gay and lesbian plays of the twentieth century / edited and with an introduction by Ben Hodges ; foreword by Harvey Fierstein.

Performance design / edited by Dorita Hannah, Olav Harsløf.

Performance lighting design: how to light for the stage, concerts, exhibitions and live events / Nick Moran.

Performing arts management: a handbook of professional practices / Tobie S. Stein and Jessica Bathurst.

Playbill Broadway yearbook.

Politics, humor and the counterculture: laughter in the age of decay / Vwadek P. Marciniak.

Prop master: a guidebook for successful theatrical prop management / Amy Mussman ; illustrated by James Mussman.

Radical comedy in early modern England: contexts, cultures, performances / Rick Bowers.

Revenge drama in European Renaissance and Japanese theater: from Hamlet to Madame Bufferfly / edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Revenge tragedy and the drama of commemoration in reforming England / Thomas Rist.

Rudolf Laban: the dancer of the crystal / Evelyn Doerr.

Scene design and stage lighting / W. Oren Parker, R. Craig Wolf, Dick Block.

Shakespeare and the cultures of performance / edited by Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir.

Stages of theatre [videorecording] / created by 3D Visualisation Centre, King's College, London ; written and narrated by Richard Beacham.

Stanislavsky in practice: actor training in post-Soviet Russia / Vreneli Farber.

Storytelling and theatre: contemporary storytellers and their art / Michael Wilson ; foreword by Jack Zipes.

Swastika and the stage: German theatre and society, 1933-1945 / Gerwin Strobl.

Theatre: the rediscovery of style and other writings / Michel Saint-Denis ; edited by Jane Baldwin.

Traces of light: absence and presence in the work of Loïe Fuller / Ann Cooper Albright.

Ultimate scene & monologue sourcebook: an actor's guide to over 1,000 monologues and scenes from more than 300 contemporary plays / Ed Hooks.

When Frankie went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American male identity / Karen McNally.

Zeami, performance notes / translated by Tom Hare.