Monday, May 11, 2009

New Books, March 2009

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 Saša Dundjerović.

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 Colecção Berardo, Arte Moderna e Contemporânea.

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 Socìetas 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.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

New Theatre/Dance Books for December

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 Łabędzka.

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 Perón, 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.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

New Theatre/Dance books for November

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 Harsløf.

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 Loïe 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.

Friday, November 14, 2008

New Theatre/Dance books for August-October

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 / Noël Greig.


Thursday, November 6, 2008

NIU's Theatre/Dance Electronic Journals Collection

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

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Thanks for the awesome suggestions!

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).

Friday, October 3, 2008

New Theatre/Dance books for August

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.