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Messiah of the New Technique
Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937 is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on …
Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik
This title examines the life and achievements of a theater legend. ""Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik"" explores the life and work of the pioneering scene designer whose career …
Angels in the American Theater
Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy examines the significant roles that theater patrons have played in shaping and developing theater in the United …
Teaching Performance Studies
An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. This collection of 18 essays by scholars and educators seeks to reflect the emergent and contested …
From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting
Author Barry B. Witham reclaims the work of Manny Fried, an essential American playwright so thoroughly blacklisted after he defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in …
Childhood and NineteenthCentury American Theatre
Revealing the careers and backstage lives of child performers and their place in antebellum AmericaFrom 1855 until 1863, the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians, a professional …
Ghost Light
A new edition of the celebrated introduction to dramaturgy training and practice Since its release in 2010, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy has become the …
Presidential Libraries as Performance
Who has a stake in the way a president’s public image is presented? How do the performances—exhibitions across a range of media—in a presidential museum shape our understanding of …
That Furious Lesbian
Now available in paperback, ""That Furious Lesbian"": The Story of Mercedes de Acosta is the first book-length biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-twentieth-century …
Performing Loss
In ""Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing"", author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to …
Women in Turmoil
In this first publication of six plays by the uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues lost theatrical …
The Theatre of Sabina Berman
The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays introduces and makes accessible to an English-speaking audience the work of the contemporary Mexican playwright …