New Theatre/Dance books for April

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:
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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.