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.