Here are the new theatre/dance books at the library for November. Please contact me with questions, requests, and concerns: mchonechase@niu.edu.
Asian theatre puppets: creativity, culture and craftsmanship / from the collection of Paul Lin ; Robin Ruizendaal ; Wang Hanshun.
Comedy of Dave Chappelle: critical essays / edited by K.A. Wisniewski.
Essential acting: a practical handbook for actors, teachers and directors / Brigid Panet ; with Fiona McHardy.
Frantic Assembly book of devising theatre / Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett.
Gypsy: the art of the tease / Rachel Shteir.
In the eye of the storm: contemporary theater in Barcelona / Sharon G. Feldman.
Marx Brothers as social critics: satire and comic nihilism in their films / Martin A. Gardner.
New dance: writings on modern dance / Doris Humphrey ; selected and edited by Charles Humphrey Woodford.
Performing conquest: five centuried of theater, history, and identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico / Patricia A. Ybarra.
Physics and the art of dance: understanding movement / Kenneth Laws with Arleen Sugano ; photographs by Martha Swope & Gene Schiavone.
Practical guide to stage lighting / Steven Louis Shelley.
Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture / edited by Anselm Heinrich, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards.
Shakespeare and the institution of theatre: the best in this kind / Erica Sheen.
Shell shock cinema: Weimar culture and the wounds of war / Anton Kaes.
Theatre & politics / Joe Kelleher.
Victorian women and the theatre of trance: mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance / Amy Lehman.
Visionaries: interviews with fashion designers / Susannah Frankel.
What is scenography? / by Pamela Howard.
When Broadway was the runway: theater, fashion, and American culture / Marlis Schweitzer.
World cinemas, transnational perspectives / edited by Natasa Durovicova and Kathleen Newman.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Latest New Books
Hi! Here are the newest books for Theatre/Dance at NIU Libraries.
As always, please contact me at mchonechase@niu.edu with any questions or requests for materials.
Acting as a business: Strategies for success / Brian O'Neil.
Acting professionally: Raw facts about careers in acting / Robert Cohen, James Calleri.
American theatre reader: Essays and conversations from American theatre magazine / edited by the staff of American theatre magazine.
Auditions: A practical guide / Richard Evans.
Back stage guide to stage management: Traditional and new methods for running a show from first rehersal to last performance / Thomas A. Kelly.
Being watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s / Carrie Lambert-Beatty.
Body, voice, and imagination: ImageWork Training and the Chekhov technique / David Zinder.
Cambridge introduction to theatre historiography / Thomas Postlewait.
Cross-gender Shakespeare and English national identity: Wearing the codpiece / Elizabeth Klett.
Directors/directing: Conversations on theatre / [compiled by] Maria Shevtsova and Christopher Innes.
Dramatherapy and social theatre: Necessary dialogues / edited by Sue Jennings.
Ex machina: From page to stage / Patrick Caux, Bernard Gilbert ; translated by Neil Kroetsch.
From winning the vote to directing on Broadway: The emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927 / Pamela Cobrin.
Further on, nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's theatre / Michal Kobialka.
Gender and sexuality in Star Trek: Allegories of desire in the television series and films / David Greven.
Inter-actions: Relationships of religion and drama / Nelvin Vos.
Kazan on directing / Elia Kazan.
Laity, the church, and the mystery plays: A drama of belonging / Tony Corbett.
Mapping landscapes for performance as research: Scholarly acts and creative cartographies / edited by Shannon Rose Riley, Lynette Hunter.
Medieval English drama: Performance and spectatorship / Katie Normington.
Murder by accident: Medieval theater, modern media, critical intentions / Jody Enders.
Musical theatre training: The Broadway Theatre Project handbook / Debra McWaters.
Nazi cinema's new women / Jana F. Bruns.
Performance affects: Applied theatre and the end of effect / James Thompson.
Physical actor: Exercises for action and awareness / Annie Loui.
Playing a part in history: The York mysteries, 1951-2006 / Margaret Rogerson.
Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik: Scene design and the American theatre / Anne Fletcher.
Rising from the flames: The rebirth of theater in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / edited by Samuel L. Leiter.
Romulus Linney: Maverick of the American theater / John Fleming.
Serious play: Modern clown performance / Louise Peacock.
Slavery and sentiment on the American stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the veil of Black / Heather S. Nathans.
Spalding Gray's America / William W. Demastes.
Stage fright: Politics and the performing arts in late Imperial Russia / Paul du Quenoy.
Stage makeup / Richard Corson, Beverly Gore Norcross, James Glavan.
Staging pain, 1580-1800: Violence and trauma in British theater / edited by James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin.
Story of Dai Ailian: Icon of Chinese folk dance, pioneer of Chinese ballet / Richard Glasstone.
Stravinsky dances: Re-visions across a century / Stephanie Jordan.
Take your shirt off and cry: A memoir of near-fame experiences / Nancy Balbirer.
Theatre & audience / Helen Freshwater.
Theatre & education / Helen Nicholson ; [foreword by Edward Bond].
Theatre & ethics / Nicholas Ridout.
Theatre & globalization / Dan Rebellato.
Theatre & human rights / Paul Rae ; [foreword by Rabih Mrouei].
Theatre and identity in imperial Russia / Catherine A. Schuler.
Theatre and religion on Krishna's stage: Performing in Vrindavan / David V. Mason.
Theatre censorship in Britain: Silencing, censure and suppresion / Helen Freshwater.
Theatre is more beautiful than war: German stage directing in the late twentieth century / Marvin Carlson.
Theatre, facilitation, and nation formation in the Balkans and Middle East / Sonja Arsham Kuftinec.
Theatreland: A journey through the heart of London's theatre / Paul Ibell.
Theatres of India: A concise companion / edited by Ananda Lal.
Trans/acting: Latin American and Latino performing arts / edited by Jacqueline Bixler and Laurietz Seda.
Voice-over for animation / Jean Ann Wright and M.J. Lallo.
Waging the war of the worlds: A history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic, including the original script . John Gosling ; radio script by Howard Koch.
As always, please contact me at mchonechase@niu.edu with any questions or requests for materials.
Acting as a business: Strategies for success / Brian O'Neil.
Acting professionally: Raw facts about careers in acting / Robert Cohen, James Calleri.
American theatre reader: Essays and conversations from American theatre magazine / edited by the staff of American theatre magazine.
Auditions: A practical guide / Richard Evans.
Back stage guide to stage management: Traditional and new methods for running a show from first rehersal to last performance / Thomas A. Kelly.
Being watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s / Carrie Lambert-Beatty.
Body, voice, and imagination: ImageWork Training and the Chekhov technique / David Zinder.
Cambridge introduction to theatre historiography / Thomas Postlewait.
Cross-gender Shakespeare and English national identity: Wearing the codpiece / Elizabeth Klett.
Directors/directing: Conversations on theatre / [compiled by] Maria Shevtsova and Christopher Innes.
Dramatherapy and social theatre: Necessary dialogues / edited by Sue Jennings.
Ex machina: From page to stage / Patrick Caux, Bernard Gilbert ; translated by Neil Kroetsch.
From winning the vote to directing on Broadway: The emergence of women on the New York stage, 1880-1927 / Pamela Cobrin.
Further on, nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's theatre / Michal Kobialka.
Gender and sexuality in Star Trek: Allegories of desire in the television series and films / David Greven.
Inter-actions: Relationships of religion and drama / Nelvin Vos.
Kazan on directing / Elia Kazan.
Laity, the church, and the mystery plays: A drama of belonging / Tony Corbett.
Mapping landscapes for performance as research: Scholarly acts and creative cartographies / edited by Shannon Rose Riley, Lynette Hunter.
Medieval English drama: Performance and spectatorship / Katie Normington.
Murder by accident: Medieval theater, modern media, critical intentions / Jody Enders.
Musical theatre training: The Broadway Theatre Project handbook / Debra McWaters.
Nazi cinema's new women / Jana F. Bruns.
Performance affects: Applied theatre and the end of effect / James Thompson.
Physical actor: Exercises for action and awareness / Annie Loui.
Playing a part in history: The York mysteries, 1951-2006 / Margaret Rogerson.
Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik: Scene design and the American theatre / Anne Fletcher.
Rising from the flames: The rebirth of theater in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / edited by Samuel L. Leiter.
Romulus Linney: Maverick of the American theater / John Fleming.
Serious play: Modern clown performance / Louise Peacock.
Slavery and sentiment on the American stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the veil of Black / Heather S. Nathans.
Spalding Gray's America / William W. Demastes.
Stage fright: Politics and the performing arts in late Imperial Russia / Paul du Quenoy.
Stage makeup / Richard Corson, Beverly Gore Norcross, James Glavan.
Staging pain, 1580-1800: Violence and trauma in British theater / edited by James Robert Allard and Mathew R. Martin.
Story of Dai Ailian: Icon of Chinese folk dance, pioneer of Chinese ballet / Richard Glasstone.
Stravinsky dances: Re-visions across a century / Stephanie Jordan.
Take your shirt off and cry: A memoir of near-fame experiences / Nancy Balbirer.
Theatre & audience / Helen Freshwater.
Theatre & education / Helen Nicholson ; [foreword by Edward Bond].
Theatre & ethics / Nicholas Ridout.
Theatre & globalization / Dan Rebellato.
Theatre & human rights / Paul Rae ; [foreword by Rabih Mrouei].
Theatre and identity in imperial Russia / Catherine A. Schuler.
Theatre and religion on Krishna's stage: Performing in Vrindavan / David V. Mason.
Theatre censorship in Britain: Silencing, censure and suppresion / Helen Freshwater.
Theatre is more beautiful than war: German stage directing in the late twentieth century / Marvin Carlson.
Theatre, facilitation, and nation formation in the Balkans and Middle East / Sonja Arsham Kuftinec.
Theatreland: A journey through the heart of London's theatre / Paul Ibell.
Theatres of India: A concise companion / edited by Ananda Lal.
Trans/acting: Latin American and Latino performing arts / edited by Jacqueline Bixler and Laurietz Seda.
Voice-over for animation / Jean Ann Wright and M.J. Lallo.
Waging the war of the worlds: A history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic, including the original script . John Gosling ; radio script by Howard Koch.
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