Monday, March 29, 2010

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.