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.

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.

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

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).

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.

New Theatre/Dance books for July

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

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.