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.