Announcement and New Books @ Library, March 2010

Hi,

I am getting pretty close to spending all of the grant money to develop the Theatre/Dance collection dealing in war and peace. I am mostly buying plays and collections of plays, so we should be seeing a significant increase in titles.

Also, here are the newest Theatre/Dance titles at the library.

Acting and singing with archtypes / by Janet B. Rodgers and Frankie Armstrong.

Crossroads : performance studies and Irish culture / edited by Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh.

Directors & designers / [edited by] Christine White.

Dressed for duty : America's women in uniform, 1898-1873 / by Jill Halcomb Smith ; foreword by Edward R. Burka.

Get real : documentary theatre past and present / edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.

Gilbert and Sullivan : class and the Savoy tradition, 1875-1896 / Regina B. Oost.

Haume couture fashioned by Betty Sacker : folklore of an American home dressmaker and her students / by Deborah Lynn Chmielewski.

Lee Strasberg notes / edited by Lola Cohen.

Marketing modernity : Victorian popular shows and early cinema / Joe Kember.

Playbill Broadway yearbook.

Roman military dress / Graham Sumner.

Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea.

Stance : ideas about emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture / Harris M. Berger.

Stepping through time : archaeological footwear from prehistoric times until 1800 / Olaf Goubitz, Carol van Driel-Murray, Willy Groenman-van Waateringe.

Theatre & the body / Colette Conroy.

Vintage hairstyling : retro styles with step-by-step techniques / Lauren Rennells.

New theatre/dance books at the library

Here are the library's newest Theatre/Dance books!

1oo years of menswear / Cally Blackman.

Actors and icons of the ancient theater / Eric Csapo.

Alchemy arts: recycling is chic / Kate MacKay and Di Jennings.

Anatomy of fashion: dressing the body fromthe Renaissance to today / Susan J. Vincent.

August: Osage County / Tracy Letts.

Bad reputation: performance, essays, interviews / Penny Arcade.

Bags with paper and stitch / Isobel Hall.

Blue and yellow don't make green / by Michael Wilcox.

Broadway and corporate capitalism: the rise of the professional-managerial class, 1900-1920 / Michael Schwartz.

Cambridge companion to Caryl Churchill / edited by Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond.

Character costume figure drawing: step-by-step drawing methods for theatre costume designers / Tan Huaixiang.

Clean house and other plays / Sarah Ruhl.

Costume design 101: the business and art of creating costumes for film and television / Richard La Motte.

Costumes of light / photographs, Peter Muller ; text, Daniele Carbonel ; inspired by Pedro Soler ; preface, Luis Miguel Dominguin.

Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean / edited by Peter Manuel.

Critter costuming: making mascots and fabricating fursuits / by Adam Riggs.

Crucible bodies: postwar Japanese performance from Brecht to the millennium / by Tadashi Uchino.

Crumbs from the table of joy, and other plays / Lynn Nottage.

Dead man's cell phone / Sarah Ruhl.

Decade of new comedy: plays from the Humana Festival / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky.

Deconstructed screen printing for fabric and paper [videorecording] / Kerr Grabowski.

Disappearing tricks: silent film, Houdini, and the new magic of the twentieth century / Matthew Soloman.

Dreaming body: contemporary Irish theatre / edited by Melissa Sihra and Paul Murphy.

Dyeing wool and other protein fibers: an introduction to acid dyes / Susan Rex.

Fifty dresses that changed the world / Design Museum ; [text written by Michael Czerwinski].

Fifty shoes that changed the world / Design Museum ; [text written by Michael Czerwinski].

Form, fit, and fashion: all the details fashion designers need to know but can never find / Jay Calderin.

Genius and the goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe / Jeffrey Meyers.

Hairstyles of the world = Shi jie fa xing da quan = La coiffure autour du monde = Frisuren der Welt = Peinados del mundo = Acconciature del mondo = Estilos dde penteado do mundo = Sekai no heasutairu.

Hanlon Brothers: from daredevil acrobatics to spectable pantomime, 1833-1931 / Mark Cosdon.

Happy now? / Lucinda Coxon.

How to do Shakespeare / Adrian Noble.

Improvisational screen printing / Jane Dunnewold.

Improvisational screen printing [videorecording] / by Jane Dunnewold ; Night Owl Productions, a Visual Concepts company.

Maoist model theatre: the semiotics of gender and sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) / by Rosemary A. Roberts.

Marionette sourcebook: theory & technique / Luman Coad.

Model as muse: embodying fashion / Harold Koda and Kohle Yohannan.

Number / Caryl Churchill.

Performing violence: literacy and theatrical experiments of new Russian drama / by Birgit Beumers and Mark Lipovetsky.

Popular Shakespeare: simulation and subversion on the modern stage / Stephen Purcell.

Pride / by Alexi Kaye Campbell.

Reconstruction era fashions: 350 sewing, needlework, and millinery patterns, 1867-1868 / edited and with additional material by Frances Grimble.

Sari / Mukulika Banerjee, Daniel Miller ; photographs, Dixie.

Savage detours: the life and work of Ann Savage / Lisa Morton and Kent Adamson ; foreword by Guy Maddin.

Shatterhand massacree and other media texts / John Jesurun.

Shibori: a beginner's guide to creating color & texture on fabric / Lynne Caldwell.

Shipwrecked!: an entertainment: the amazing adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as told by himself) / Donald Marguiles.

Sound: a reader in theatre practice / Ross Brown.

SubUrbia / Eric Bogosian.

Taseusz Kantor / Noel Witts.

Technik on stage.

Weir, and other plays / Conor McPherson.

Yellow face / David Henry Hwang ; foreword by Frank Rich.

New Theatre/Dance materials for January 2010

Here's the newest Theatre/Dance materials at the library. As always, plz contact me at mchonechase@niu.edu with any questions or comments you might have.

A to Z of American Theater Modernism.

Actor in Costume / Aoife Monks.

Actor's Work on a Role / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.

Alice Project [videorecording]: creative arts therapy in action / Films Media Group.

Aliens and Englishness in Elizavethan Drama / LLoyd Edward Kermode.

Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage / Jeffrey Richards.

Beckett, Technology and the Body / Ulrika Maude.

Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg / edited by Michael Robinson.

Cambridge Introduction to Comedy / Eric Weitz.

Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre / Simon Shepherd.

Cambridge Introduction to Scenography / Joslin McKinney, Philip Butterworth.

Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy / Jennifer Wallace.

Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and theatre studies, 1959-2009 / edited and with an introduction by Joseph Roach.

Comedie di Terentio volgari, di nuovo ricorrette, et al miglior tradottione ridotte / Terence.

Complete Book of Puppetry / George Lawshaw.

DbD Experience Book: chance knows what it's doing! / Rachael Rosenthanl; edited with foreword by Kate Noonan.

Decade of New Comedy: plays from the Humana Festival / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky.

Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the limits of metatheatre / edited by Daniel K. Jernigan.

Duo!: the best scenes for two for the 21st century / edited by Joyce E. Henry, Rebecca Dunn Jaroff, Bob Shuman.

Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television / Bob McCann.

Fashioning the Future: tomorrow's wardrobe / Suzanne Lee ; images by Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.

Free for All: Joe Papp, the public and the greatest theater story ever told / Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp ; with the assistance of Gail Merrifield Papp.

Grotowski's Empty Room / edited by Paul Allain.

Hellraisers: the life and inebriated times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, and Oliver Reed / Robert Seller.

High Society: the life of Grace Kelly / Donald Spoto.

Holocaust Drama: the theater of atrocity / Gene A. Plunka.

Isabel Toledo: fashion from the inside out / Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears.

Lowering the Boom: critical studies in film sound / edited by Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda.

Making and Manipulating Marionettes / David Currell.

Mary Wigman / Mary Anne Santos Newhall.

Naming Theatre: demonstrative diagnosis in performance / James Frieze.

Native America Drama: a critical perspective / Christy Stanlake.

Negro Ensemble Company [videorecording] / produced and directed by Richard Kilberg.

Nineteenth-century fashion in detail / Lucy Johnston with Marion Kite and Helen Persson ; photographs by Richard Davis ; Drawings by Leonie Davis.

Occupational Costume in England: from the eleventh century to 1914 / Phyllis Cunnington & Catherine Lucas. With chapters by Alan Mansfield.

On Directing and Dramaturgy: burning the house / Eugenio Barba ; translated by Judy Barba.

Politics of American Actor Training / edited by Ellen Margolis and Lissa Tyler Renaud.

Portrayals of Americans on the World Stage: critical essays / edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Puppets and Puppet Theatre / David Currell.

Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia / edited by Poonam Trivedi and Minami Ryuta.

Sex on Stage: gender and sexuality in post-war British theatre / Andrew Wyllie.

Shakespeare's Opposites: the Admiral's Company, 1594-1625 / Andrew Gurr.

Site Dance: Choreographers and the lure of alternative spaces / edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik.

Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus / Fiona Macintosh.

Sound and Music for the Theatre: the art and technique of design / Deena Kaye and James LeBrecht.

Spectator and the Spectacle: audiences in modernity and postmodernity / Dennis Kennedy.

Spectres: when fashion turns back / [Judith Clark].

Straight Acting: popular gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan / Sean O'Connor.

Strings, Hands, Shadows: a modern puppet history / John Bell.

Watteau, Music, and Theater / edited by Katharine Baetjer ; with an introduction by Pierre Rosenberg and an essay by Georgia J. Cowart.

William Holden: a biography / Michelangelo Capua.

Women Playing Men: Yue opera and social change in twentieth-century Shanghai / Jin Jiang.