Announcement and New Books @ Library, March 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.