Theatre & Dance @ NIU Library

Announcement and New Books @ Library, March 2010

2010-05-12T06:50:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-29T13:28:00.000-07:00

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.

New books for November

2009-12-18T13:38:00.000-08:00

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.

Latest New Books

2009-12-15T11:03:00.000-08:00

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.

New Books for September of 2009

2009-11-17T07:29:00.000-08:00

Just a few for now:

Collaboration in theatre : a practical guide for designers and directors / Rob Roznowski and Kirk Domer.

Silent film stars on the stages of Seattle : a history of performances by Hollywood notables / Eric L. Flom.

Theatre studies / Kenneth Pickering and Mark Woolgar.

Grant from State-Wide Consortium

2009-09-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

Exciting news! I have been awarded a grant from CARLI, the state-wide consortium, to develop the library's collections in Peace and War in Theater and Dance. I have to spend the money this year, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know (mchonechase@niu.edu). The only stipulations are that the materials have to deal with peace and war, that the titles are fairly unique within the state, and that once we purchase the materials, they have to be able to circulate within the consortium (so, for example, we would want anything too valuable or too rare).

I will be working on this project off and on throughout the year, until the money is spent. So, just let me know if you have any suggestions.

New books for June

2009-08-10T12:15:00.000-07:00

June is the end of the fiscal year, so we only had a few new Theatre/Dance items arrive. As always, please feel free to contact me at mchonechase@niu.edu if you have any questions, or any suggestions.

Collected plays / Jane Martin.

In Isadora's steps : the story of Isadora Duncan's School in Moscow, told by her favourite pupil / Lily Dikovskaya as told to Gerard M-F. Hill.

James purdy : selected plays.

Romantic Ballet in Paris / Ivor Guest.

New Theatre/Dance books for May

2009-07-23T14:39:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-23T14:35:00.001-07:00

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)

New Theatre/Dance books for April

2009-06-15T13:02:00.000-07:00

Here's some of the newest Theatre/Dance books to get added to the library's collection.

The new fiscal year will start with July. I don't know about the Theatre/Dance budget yet, but I am interested in getting requests for materials together all the same. As always, feel free to email me at mchonechase@niu.edu -- I like getting questions and feedback, too.

New titles:
60 seconds to shine.

Abbott and Costello on the home front: a critical study of the wartime films / Scott Allen Nollen.

Acting games for individual performers: a comprehensive workbook of 110 acting exercises / Gavin Levy.

Actor's choice: monologues for men / edited by Erin Detrick.

Actor's choice: monologues for women / edited by Erin Detrick.

Actor's tricks / Yoshi Oida and Lorna Marshall.

Advanced principles in teaching classical ballet / John White.

Ballroom: culture and costume in competitive dance / Jonathan S. Marion.

Beginning drama 4-11 / Joe Winston and Miles Tandy.

Bertolt Brecht / Meg Mumford.

Big show, tiny budget: an idea book for every stage designer, from high school to Broadway, who wishes he had money to burn, but can't afford a disposable lighter / Sean Martin.

Classical monologues for men / edited and introduced by Marina Caldarone.

Classical monologues for women / edited and introduced by Marina Caldarone.

Dance and its music in America, 1528-1789 / Kate Van Winkle Keller.

Dancer within: intimate conversations with great dancers / photographs and text by Rose Eichenbaum ; edited by Aron Hirt-Manheimer.

Dancer's survival manual: everything you need to know from the first class to career change / Marian Horosko and Judith F. Kupersmith.

Directing for stage and screen / Marian F. Monta and Jack R. Stanley.

Drama therapy and storymaking in special education / Paula Crimmens.

Fitting & proper: 18th century clothing from the collection of the Chester County Historical Society / by Sharon Ann Burnston ; photography by George J. Fistrovich ; [editor, Linda A. Scurlock]

Gotta ballroom / Christine Zona, Chris George.

Growing hats / [red.: Jackie Habets ; vert.: Keukenhof ; fotogr.: Zomertijd fotografie].

History of dance: an interactive arts approach / Gayle Kassing.

Irish theater in America: essays on Irish theatrical diaspora / edited by John P. Harrington.

Mrs. Ziegfeld: the public and private lives of Billie Burke / Grant Hayter-Menzies ; foreword by Eric Myers.

Pas de deux: the Royal Ballet in pictures / foreword by Monica Mason.

Performing dark arts: a cultural history of conjuring / Michael Mangan.

Plays of Thomas Kilroy: a critical study / Thierry Dubost.

Relationscapes: movement, art, philosophy / Erin Manning.

Shall we dance / photographs by Brian Lanker ; foreword by Maya Angelou.

She always knew how: Mae West, a personal biography / Charlotte Chandler.

Spectacle of suffering: Clara Morris on the American stage / Barbara Wallace Grossman.

Stage management / Lawrence Stern, Alice R. O'Grady.

Stages of struggle: modern playwrights and their psychological inspirations / John Louis DiGaetani.

Stop-motion puppet sculpting: a manual of foam injection, build-up, and finishing techniques / Tom Brierton.

Susan Glaspell and the anxiety of expression: language and isolation in the plays / Kristina Hinz-Bode.

Tango: creation of a cultural icon / Jo Baim.

Tony Kushner: new essays on the art and politics of the plays / edited by James Fisher.

Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: literary mountebanks and performing quacks / M.A. Katritzky.

New Books, March 2009

2009-05-11T08:26:00.000-07:00

Greetings!

Here are the new Theatre/Dance resources that were added to the library's collection in March.

Abbott and Costello on the home front: a critical study of the wartime films / Scott Allen Nollen.

Acting for life: a textbook on acting / Jack Frakes.

Acting in television commercials for fun and profit / Squire Fridell.

Acting on impulse: reclaiming the Stanislavski approach : a practical workbook for actors / John Gillett.

Actor training the Laban way: an integrated approach to voice, speech, and movement / Barbara Adrian ; illustrations by Chelsea Clarke.

African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus: the Zaira and Marcel Mis collection / preface by John Mack ; texts by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, Frieda Sorber, Anne Van Cutsem ; photographs by Mauro Magliani.

African theatres and performances / Osita Okagbue.

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

American plays and musicals on screen: 650 stage productions and their film and television adaptations / Thomas S. Hischak.

Ancient Greek costume: an annotated bibliography, 1784-2005 / Linda Jones Roccos.
Antigone now: a short drama / by Melissa Cooper.

Architecture of drama: plot, character, theme, genre, and style / David Letwin, Joe Stockdale, Robin Stockdale.

Body speaks / Lorna Marshall.

Bringing down the house: the crisis in Britain's regional theatres / Olivia Turnbull.

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

Cambridge companion to performance studies / edited by Tracy C. Davis.

Clark Gable: tormented star / David Bret.

Comedy matters: from Shakespeare to Stoppard / William W. Demastes.

Contemporary circus: art of the spectacular / Ernest Albrecht.

Enter the playmakers: directors and choreographers on the New York stage / Thomas S. Hischak.

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

Feminism and theatre / Sue-Ellen Case ; with a foreword by Elaine Aston.

Film actors organize: union formation efforts in America, 1912-1937 / Kerry Segrave.

Fred Astaire / Joseph Epstein.

From the Greek mimes to Marcel Marceau and beyond: mimes, actors, Pierrots, and clowns : a chronicle of the many visages of mime in the theatre / Annette Lust ; foreword by Marcel Marceau.

Greek theatre in context / Eric Dugdale.

Joan Crawford: the enduring star / Peter Cowie ; foreword by Mich Lasalle ; afterword by George Cukor.

Late plays of Tennessee Williams / William Prosser.

Lollipop: vaudeville turns with a Fanchon and Marco dancer / Reva Howitt Clar ; edited by Mimi Melnick.

Lucid body: a guide for the physical actor / Fay Simpson.

Marie Dorval: France's theatrical wonder: a book for actors / Bettina Knapp.

Marilyn: the last goddess / Jerome Charyn.

Masculinity, corporality and the English stage, 1580-1635 / Christian M. Billing.

Mock stars: Indie comedy and the dangerously funny / by John Wenzel.

Modern Russian theater: a literary and cultural history / Nicholas Rzhevsky.

Movement training for the modern actor / Mark Evans.

Mrs. Ziegfeld: the public and private lives of Billie Burke / Grant Hayter-Menzies ; foreword by Eric Myers.

Musical theatre: a history / John Kenrick.

Out on the edge: America's rebel comics / [edited by] Mike Player.

Patterns of fashion 4: the cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear and accessories for men and women, c. 1540-1660.

Performing Shakespeare: [preparation, rehearsal, performance] / Oliver Ford Davies.

Performing magic on the western stage: from the eighteenth century to the present / edited by Francesca Coppa, Lawrence Hass, and James Peck ; foreword by Eugene Burger.

Period costume for stage & screen. Patterns for outer garments / Jean Hunnisett ; illustrations by Jill Spanner, Fiona Ffoulkes, and Kathryn Turner.

Pina Bausch / Royd Climenhaga.

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

Robert Lepage / Aleksandar SasÌŒa DundjerovicÌ.

Screen media arts: an introduction to concepts & practices / Hart Cohen, Juan Salazar, Iqbal Barkat.

Silent comedy / Paul Merton.

Special make-up effects for stage & screen: making and applying prosthetics / by Todd Debreceni.

Spectacle and public performance in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Robert Stillman.

Spectacle of suffering: Clara Morris on the American stage / Barbara Wallace Grossman.

Staging stigma: a critical examination of the American freak show / Michael M. Chemers ; foreword by Jim Ferris.

Street scenes: staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / Esther Romeyn.

Struggle, defeat or rebirth: Eugene O'Neill's vision of humanity / Thierry Dubost.

Theater without theater / Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museu ColeccÌ§aÌƒo Berardo, Arte Moderna e ContemporaÌ‚nea.

Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the making of modern British theatre / Robert Leach.

Theatre and globalization: Irish drama in the Celtic Tiger era / Patrick Lonergan.

Theatre arts on acting / edited, with an introduction, by Laurence Senelick.

Theatre as human action: an introduction to theatre arts / Thomas S. Hischak.

Theatre management: producing and managing the performing arts / David M. Conte, Stephen Langley.

Theatre of SociÌ€etas Raffaello Sanzio / Claudia Castellucci ... [et al.] ; photographs by Luca Del Pia.

Theatre of roots: redirecting the modern Indian stage / Erin B. Mee.

Theatres of the Troubles: theatre, resistance and liberation in Ireland / Bill McDonnell.

Tony Kushner: new essays on the art and politics of the plays / edited by James Fisher.

Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville / Armond Fields.

Truth: personas, needs, and flaws in the art of building actors and creating characters / Susan Batson.

Truth in comedy: the manual of improvisation / Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim "Howard" Johnson.

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

Ziegfeld: the man who invented show business / Ethan Mordden.

As always, please feel free to email me with comments and questions at mchonechase@niu.edu.

New Theatre/Dance Books for December

2009-02-24T14:08:00.000-08:00

Hello again! Here are Theatre/Dance books added to the library's collection in December. Please feel free to email me at mchonechase@niu.edu. I'm always looking for feedback and suggestions!

Actors Studio and Hollywood in the 1950s: a history of theatrical realism / Mario Beguiristain.

Breathe and speak: a scene book for actors / created by Marc Clopton.

Cambridge introduction to theatre studies / Christopher B. Balme.

Entertainment, propaganda, education: regional theatre in Germany and Britain between 1918 and 1945 / Anselm Heinrich.

Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre : from the word to the image / by Izabella ÅabeÌ¨dzka.

Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo / Sondra Fraleigh and Tamah Nakamura.

Integral drama: culture, consciousness and identity / William S. Haney II.

London's Grand Guignol and the theatre of horror / Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson.

Mask Exploration: the process of character creation and transformation.

Magical life of Marshall Brodien: creator of TV magic cards and Wizzo the wizard / John Moehring.

New music theater: seeing the voice, hearing the body / Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi.

Performance and place / edited by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris.

Playing for time: stories of lost children, ghosts and the endangered present in contemporary theatre / Geraldine Cousin.

Poetics of difference and displacement: twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre / Min Tian.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead / by Tom Stoppard ; consulting editor, Henry Popkin.

Routledge companion to directors' Shakespeare / edited by John Russell Brown.

Secrets of voice-over success: top voice-over artists reveal how they did it / Joan Baker.

Secular saints: performing Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva PeroÌn, and Selena / Sarah M. Misemer.

Shakespeare and Garrick / Vanessa Cunningham.

Shakespeare and the power of performance: stage and page in the Elizabethan theatre / Robert Weimann and Douglas Bruster.

Shylock in Germany: antisemitism and the German theatre from the enlightenment to the Nazis / Andrew G. Bonnell.

Stages of conflict: a critical anthology of Latin American theater and performance / edited by Diana Taylor and Sarah J. Townsend ; translation coordinator, Margaret Carson.

Staging Islam in England: drama and culture, 1640-1685 / Matthew Birchwood.

Staging black feminisms: identity, politics, performance / Lynette Goddard.

Theatre censorship: from Walpole to Wilson / David Thomas, David Carlton, Anne Etienne.

Urban theatre in the Low Countries, 1400-1625 / edited by Elsa Strietman and Peter HappeÌ.

Visualizing medieval performance : perspectives, histories, contexts / edited by Elina Gertsman.

New Theatre/Dance books for November

2009-01-13T06:40:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Spring semester! Here are the new books from November. As always, feel free to contact me at mchonechase@niu.edu

Acting in musical theatre: a comprehensive course / Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera.

Acting the song: performance skills for the musical theatre / by Tracey Moore, with Allison Bergman.

All in the timing: fourteen plays / David Ives.

American puppet modernism: essays on the material world in performance / John Bell.

American women stage directors of the twentieth century / Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow.

Applied theatre reader / edited by Tim Prentki and Sheila Preston.

Art & artifice and other essays on illusion: concerning the inventors, traditions, evolution & rediscovery of stage magic : with twenty-three diagrams / Jim Steinmeyer ; foreword by Neil Gaiman.

Art of the turnaround: creating and maintaining healthy arts organizations / Michael M. Kaiser.

Balanchine the teacher: fundamentals that shaped the first generation of New York City Ballet dancers / Barbara Walczak and Una Kai.

Balanchine variations / Nancy Goldner.

Cambridge guide to American theatre / edited by Don B. Wilmeth ; assistant to the editor, Leonard Jacobs.

Chance and circumstance: twenty years with Cage and Cunningham / Carolyn Brown.

Claudette Colbert: she walked in beauty / Bernard F. Dick.

Comedy Tonight! / [editor, Jay Malarcher].

Director's craft: a handbook for the theatre / by Katie Mitchell.

Drama: learning connections in primary school / Barbara Poston-Anderson.

Dying swans and madmen: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / Adrienne L. McLean.

Female mourning in medieval and Renaissance English drama: from the raising of Lazarus to King Lear / Katharine Goodland.

Gender gymnastics: performing and consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue / Leonie R. Stickland.

Generating theatre meaning: a theory and methodology of performance analysis / Eli Rozik.

Hat talk: conversations with hat makers about their hats-- the Fedora, Homburg, straw, and cap / by Debbie Henderson.

Historical dictionary of postmodernist literature and theater / Fran Mason.

How to do accents / Edda Sharpe, Jan Haydn Rowles.

Journey of the tall horse: a story of African theatre / Mervyn Millar.

Management and the arts / William J. Byrnes ; foreword by Dan J. Martin.

Native Shakespeares: indigenous appropriations on a global stage / edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia.

Out plays: landmark gay and lesbian plays of the twentieth century / edited and with an introduction by Ben Hodges ; foreword by Harvey Fierstein.

Performance design / edited by Dorita Hannah, Olav HarslÃ¸f.

Performance lighting design: how to light for the stage, concerts, exhibitions and live events / Nick Moran.

Performing arts management: a handbook of professional practices / Tobie S. Stein and Jessica Bathurst.

Playbill Broadway yearbook.

Politics, humor and the counterculture: laughter in the age of decay / Vwadek P. Marciniak.

Prop master: a guidebook for successful theatrical prop management / Amy Mussman ; illustrated by James Mussman.

Radical comedy in early modern England: contexts, cultures, performances / Rick Bowers.

Revenge drama in European Renaissance and Japanese theater: from Hamlet to Madame Bufferfly / edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Revenge tragedy and the drama of commemoration in reforming England / Thomas Rist.

Rudolf Laban: the dancer of the crystal / Evelyn Doerr.

Scene design and stage lighting / W. Oren Parker, R. Craig Wolf, Dick Block.

Shakespeare and the cultures of performance / edited by Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir.

Stages of theatre [videorecording] / created by 3D Visualisation Centre, King's College, London ; written and narrated by Richard Beacham.

Stanislavsky in practice: actor training in post-Soviet Russia / Vreneli Farber.

Storytelling and theatre: contemporary storytellers and their art / Michael Wilson ; foreword by Jack Zipes.

Swastika and the stage: German theatre and society, 1933-1945 / Gerwin Strobl.

Theatre: the rediscovery of style and other writings / Michel Saint-Denis ; edited by Jane Baldwin.

Traces of light: absence and presence in the work of LoiÌˆe Fuller / Ann Cooper Albright.

Ultimate scene & monologue sourcebook: an actor's guide to over 1,000 monologues and scenes from more than 300 contemporary plays / Ed Hooks.

When Frankie went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American male identity / Karen McNally.

Zeami, performance notes / translated by Tom Hare.

New Theatre/Dance books for August-October

2008-11-14T08:37:00.000-08:00

Here are the Theatre/Dance books most recently added to the NIU library collection. Please email me with questions or concerns at mchonechase@niu.edu

African American theater: a cultural companion / Glenda Dicker/sun.

Andrew P. Wilson and the early Irish and Scottish national theatres, 1911-1950 / Steven Dedalus Burch ; with a foreword by Robert Skloot.

Arimatsu narumi shibori [videorecording] : celebrating 400 years of Japanese artisan design / produced by Arimatsu Shibori Mutsumi-kai (Japan) ; Studio Galli Productions (USA).

Art of making miniature millinery / Timothy Alberts, M. Dalton-King and Pat Henry.

Asian influence on Hollywood action films / Barna William Donovan.

Autobiography and performance / Deirdre Heddon.

Best plays theater yearbook.

Blood on the stage: milestone plays of crime, mystery, and detection : an annotated repertoire, 1900-1925 / Amnon Kabatchnik.

Body in Hollywood slapstick / Alex Clayton.

Canada on stage: scenes and monologues-- a survey of Canadian theatre-- / edited by Iris Turcott and Keith Turnbull.

Comedy of Charlie Chaplin: artistry in motion / Dan Kamin.

Drama and religion in English provincial society, 1485-1660 / Paul Whitfield White.

Final film of Laurel and Hardy: a study of the chaotic making and marketing of Atoll K / Norbert Aping ; foreword by Glenn Mitchell.

Flights of angels: my life with the Angels of light / Adrian Brooks ; photographs by Daniel Nicoletta.

Furious improvisation: how the WPA and a cast of thousands made high art out of desperate times / Susan Quinn.

Gothic plays and American society, 1794-1830 / M. Susan Anthony.

Heart of practice: within the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards / Thomas Richards.

History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett, Franklin J. Hildy.

Humana Festival: the history of new plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville / Jeffrey Ullom.

Improv handbook: the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theatre, and beyond / by Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White.

Obituaries in the performing arts.

Reagan: the Hollywood years / Marc Eliot.

Respect for acting / Uta Hagen ; with Haskel Frankel.

Romantic actors and bardolatry : performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean / Celestine Woo.

Spanish film, theatre and literature in the twentieth century: essays in honour of Derek Gagen / edited by David George and John London.

Stage directions: writing on theatre, 1970-2008 / Michael Frayn.

Stage presence / Jane Goodall.

Stanislavsky system of acting: legacy and influence in modern performance / Rose Whyman.

Story of 42nd Street: the theaters, shows, characters, and scandals of the world's most notorious street / Mary C. Henderson and Alexis Greene.

Theatre studies: the basics / Robert Leach.

Theatrical improvisation: short form, long form, and sketch-based improv / Jeanne Leep ; with a foreward by Keegan-Michael Key.

Theories of performance / Elizabeth Bell.

Top hat: an illustrated history of its styling and manufacture / by Debbie Henderson.

Transnational exchange in early modern theater / edited by Robert Henke and Eric Nicholson.

Young people, new theatre: a practical guide to an intercultural process / NoeÌˆl Greig.

NIU's Theatre/Dance Electronic Journals Collection

2008-11-06T07:38:00.001-08:00

The electronic journal collection at NIU's library has changed a little bit since we lost some access to several databases and gained some access through other databases. The following is an alphabetical list of the journals to which we currently have access. As always, questions/comments can be emailed directly to me at mchonechase@niu.edu

American Drama
American Journal of Dance Therapy
American Theatre
Asian Theatre Journal
Australasian Drama Studies
Back Stage
Brecht Yearbook
Carleton Drama Review
Comparative Drama
Dance Chronicle
Dance Magazine
Dance Research
Dance Research Journal
Drama Review
Education Theatre Journal
Entertainment Design
Framework
Journal of Religion and Theatre
Literature in Performance
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England
Modern Drama
Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre
Opera Quarterly
PAJ
Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
Performing Arts Journal
Platform : Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
Plays
Scenario
Screen
Shaw
Stage
TCI
TDR
Text and Performance Quarterly
Theatre
Theatre History Studies
Theatre Journal
Theatre Notebook
Theatre Research International
Theatre Survey
Theatre Topics
Tulane Drama Review

Thanks for the awesome suggestions!

2008-10-08T11:26:00.000-07:00

Hi! I recently received a bunch of requested titles from Lori for Theatre/Dance materials for the library--thanks! This makes my job easier. I wanted to be sure to reiterate here that suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!

I will be doing some ordering over the next few days--let me know if you have questions/suggestions (mchonechase@niu.edu).

New Theatre/Dance books for August

2008-10-03T13:15:00.000-07:00

Here are the most recent theatre/dance books to the collection. Remember that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns at mchonechase@niu.edu

Alternative theater in Taiwan : feminist and intercultural approaches / Iris Hsin-Chun Tuan.

Harry Langdon : his life and films / William Schelly.

Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / edited by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji.

New Theatre/Dance books for July

2008-09-18T14:20:00.000-07:00

Here are the books in Theatre and Dance that the library received in July (it's a short list on account of it being summer):

Alternative theater in Taiwan : feminist and intercultural approaches / Iris Hsin-Chun Tuan.

Harry Langdon : his life and films / William Schelly.

Performing pasts : reinventing the arts in modern South India / edited by Indira Viswanathan Peterson and Davesh Soneji.

As always, if you have questions regarding this or other books/resources, please let me know (mchonechase@niu.edu).

developing the library collection

2008-09-11T10:58:00.000-07:00

Last week I started ordering the new theatre and dance materials for this year--I certainly hope that they'll be useful once they get here. The library suspended its approval plan this year, which means that I need to personally hand-pick each item that we'll acquire in theatre and dance. This is harder than it might sound, as it entails careful research and consideration of what we already have, and what we don't have but should. I need to spend 40% of the budget allocated for theatre/dance by November, so, if anyone has some suggestions, I'd love to hear them. My next round of choosing materials will probably be next month sometime, and I plan on focusing ordering copies of plays.

New NIU Dance and Theatre books at the library in June

2008-09-09T12:39:00.000-07:00

These are the theatre and dance books added to NIU's collection for June. Questions or comments can be directed to me at mchonechase@niu.edu.

Actor's work : a student's diary / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.

Art of the Theatre Workshop / compiled and introduced by Murray Melvin.

Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.

Migrations of gesture / Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors.

Performance style and gesture in western theatre / Nicholas Dromgoole.

Reframing screen performance / Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke.

Royal Court Theatre inside out / Ruth Little & Emily McLaughlin.

Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.

Visuality in the theatre : the locus of looking / Maaike Bleeker.

New Theatre and Dance books at NIU--May 2008

2008-09-09T11:45:00.000-07:00

Below are all the titles added to the NIU library for Theatre and Dance in May of this year. Please don't hestitate to contact me with feedback (mchonechase@niu.edu).

Adrian : silver screen to custom label / Christian Esquevin ; foreword by Yeohlee.

Art of the dramatist : and other writings on theatre / JB Priestley ; selected and introduced by Tom Priestley.

Chris Farley show : a biography in three acts / Tom Farley, Jr. and Tanner Colby.

Dancetime! [videorecording] : 500 years of social dance / Dance Through Time ; artistic director/principal choreographer, Carol TeÌten ; script, Morris Bobrow.

Digital practices : aesthetic and neuroesthetic approaches to performance and technology / Susan Broadhurst.

Embodied texts : symbolist playwright-dancer collaborations / Mary Fleischer.

Hiding in plain sight : the secret life of Raymond Burr / Michael Seth Starr.

In township tonight! : South Africa's black city music and theatre / David Coplan.

Jewish identities in German popular entertainment, 1890-1933 / Marline Otte.

Life beyond measure : letters to my great-granddaughter / Sidney Poitier.

Making of Theatrical Reputations Studies from the Modern London Theatre.

Medieval English comedy / edited by Sandra M. Hordis & Paul Hardwick.

Political theatre in post-Thatcher Britain : new writing : 1995-2005 / Amelia Howe Kritzer.

Theatre, intimacy & engagement : the last human venue / Alan Read.

Up till now : the autobiography / William Shatner ; with David Fisher.

New Theatre and Dance books at NIU

2008-09-09T11:28:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Every once in awhile, I get a report of what new theater and dance books have been added to the library's collection. Below are all the titles from April. If you're interested in any of them and need help finding them, or offer any other feedback, please let me know! (mchone-chase@niu.edu).

Acting teachers of America : a vital tradition / Ronald Rand & Luigi Scorcia.

Acts and texts : performance and ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Laurie Postlewate and Wim HuÌˆsken.

Art of Charlie Chaplin : a film-by-film analysis / Kyp Harness.

Award monologues for women / edited by Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne.

Atomic blonde : the films of Mamie Van Doren / Barry Lowe ; foreword by Mamie Van Doren.

Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830 / edited by Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn.

Charm and speed : virtuosity in the performing arts / V.A. Howard.

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist : adapted in twenty-four scenes with several songs and tableaux / by Neil Bartlett.

Colonial staged : theatre in colonial Calcutta / Sudipto Chatterjee.

Creating physical theater [videorecording] : the body in performance / production, Grant Davies ... [et al.]

Dancing from past to present : nation, culture, identities / edited by Theresa Jill Buckland.

Dancing on the white page : Black women entertainers writing autobiography / Kwakiutl L. Dreher.

Fosse style / by Debra McWaters ; foreword by Ben Vereen ; prologue by Mindy Aloff.

From perversion to purity : the stardom of Catherine Deneuve / edited by Lisa Downing and Sue Harris.

Global foreigners : an anthology of plays / edited by Carol Martin and Saviana Stanescu.

Historical dictionary of American theater : modernism / James Fisher, Felicia Hardison LondreÌ.

Hollywood ambitions : celebrity in the movie age / Marsha Orgeron.

How to choreograph [videorecording] / Cathy Roe Productions.

Julie Andrews : an intimate biography / Richard Stirling.

Laughing and weeping in early modern theatres / Matthew Steggle.

Letters of Ruth Draper : self-portrait of an actress, 1920-1956 / edited by Dorothy Warren ; with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud.

Makeup artist handbook : techniques for film, television, photography, and theatre / Gretchen Davis and Mindy Hall.

Making a performance : devising histories and contemporary practices / Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, Katie Normington.

Mary Martin, Broadway legend / Ronald L. Davis.

Millennium fashion [videorecording]: the year in fashion / a Videofashion News presentation ; Fashion News World, Inc. ; producer, Elizabeth Uss.

More scenes and monologs from the best new plays : an anthology of new dramatic writing from professionally produced plays / edited by Roger Ellis.

My life in art / Konstantin Stanislavski ; translated and edited by Jean Benedetti.

Onstage [videorecording] / Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Outsider : John Rockwell on the arts, 1967-2006.

Oxford guide to plays / Michael Patterson.

Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.

Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] / [produced by] WVIZ-TV ; producers, Carol Bosley, John Scott ; director/editor, John Scott ; conceived and developed by Lucia Colombi, Licia Colombi, Yvetta.

Physical theatres : a critical introduction / Simon Murray and John Keefe.

Physical theatres : a critical reader / edited by John Keefe and Simon Murray.

Producing & the theatre business : working in the theatre / edited by Robert Emmet Long ; foreword by Elizabeth Ireland McCann.

Radical acts : theatre and feminist pedagogies of change / edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl.

Rakugo : performing comedy and cultural heritage in contemporary Tokyo / Lorie Brau.

Realism [videorecording] : the artistic form of the truth / direction, Leyla Salem ; script, Carla JimeÌnez, Didac Aparicio ; English script, Chris Scherer ; a co-production of Prodimag, S.L. (Spain) and FIlms Media Group (U.S.A.).

Representing Shakespearean tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean / by Reiko Oya.

Scar of visibility : medical performances and contemporary art / Petra Kuppers.

Senses in performance / edited by Sally Banes and AndreÌ Lepecki.

Silent eloquence : Lucian and pantomime dancing / Ismene Lada-Richards.

Summerfolk / by Maxim Gorky ; translated and with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.

Theatre ecology : environments and performance events / Baz Kershaw.

Theatre, education and the making of meanings : art or instument? / Anthony Jackson.

Theatre in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology / edited by David Krasner.

Theatre of genocide : four plays about mass murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia / edited by Robert Skloot.

Theatrical scene painting : a lesson guide / William H. Pinnell.

Three major plays : Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When we dead waken / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by David Rudkin.

Warm-ups and improvisation [videorecording] / Appleseed Productions.

Wooster Group work book / [edited by] Andrew Quick ; with photographs by Paula Court and Mary Gearhart.

First Posting -- An Introduction

2008-09-05T13:59:00.000-07:00

Hello!

This blog is intended primarily for the faculty and instructors in the Theatre and Dance department at NIU. I wanted to introduce myself to you and talk a little bit about what I do.

At the NIU library, I, Sarah McHone-Chase, head the Information Delivery Services Department, which coordinates interlibrary loan requests and document/campus delivery requests. Several months ago, I also started acting as the subject specialist for the Theatre and Dance Department. This means that I am in charge of choosing the theatre and dance research resources that the library will acquire. In addition, should you need a library person to come talk to students about how to find resources at the library, I'm your librarian.

I always welcome feedback. Do you have any suggestions as to what the library should get for Theatre and Dance? Please let me know! In addition, the Theatre and Dance representative to the library is Lori Hartenhoff (email: lorijh@niu.edu) -- if you suggest something to her, she'll suggest it to me.

Please don't hesitate to contact me! My email is mchonechase@niu.edu and my office phone number is 753-9860.

Sarah