Thursday, July 23, 2009

New Theatre/Dance books for May

Here are the newest Theatre/Dance books added to the NIU libraries.

100 ideas for teaching drama / Johnnie Young.

Acting characters: 20 simple steps from rehearsal to performance / Paul Elsam.

African theatre. Companies / editor, James Gibbs; reviews editor, Jane Plastow.

Ancient Greek costume: an annotated bibliography, 1784-2005 / Linda Jones Roccos.

Awakening the performing body / Jade Rosina McCutcheon.

Broadway musicals, 1943-2004 / John Stewart; foreword by Hal Prince.

Eros and power in English Renaissance drama: five plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford and Shakespeare / edited by Curtis Perry.

Fred Astaire / Joseph Epstein.

Notes on directing / Frank Hauser, Russell Reich.

Pattern cutting for men's costume / Elizabeth Friendship.

Period Make-up for Studio, Stage and Screen A Practical Reference for Actors, Models, Make-up Artists, Photographers, and Directors.

Plays of Beth Henley: a critical study / Gene A. Plunka.

Presidents we imagine: two centuries of White House fictions on the page, on the stage, onscreen, and online / Jeff Smith.

Satan in the dance hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, social dancing, and morality in 1920s New York City / Ralph G. Giordano.

Struggle, defeat or rebirth: Eugene O'neill's vision of humanity.

Tantalus [videorecording]: behind the mask / director, Dirk Olson; presented by Denver Center Theatre Company in association with Royal Shakespeare Company.

Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville / Armond Fields.

William Inge and the subversion of gender: rewriting stereotypes in the plays, novels, and screenplays / Jeff Johnson; foreword by Jackson R. Bryer.

With the rogue's company: Henry IV at the National Theatre / Bella Merlin.


We're in a new fiscal year, so I have a lot of work ahead of me to develop our Theatre/Dance collection. Please email me with any requests. mchonechase@niu.edu

Grant

Exciting news!

The library has been awarded a grant to develop the Theatre/Dance collection as it related to war and peace. So, for the next year, in addition to the theatre and dance books that I would be adding to our collection anyway, I will also be working on developing this collection. I plan to have separate entries in this blog for those new items as they come in. If you happen to have any good potential titles, please let me know! (mchonechase@niu.edu)