Monday, April 19, 2010

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.