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Acting the Part

Audience Participation in Performance

By Elizabeth Hunter
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A framework for understanding audience participation in twenty-first century immersive theater

An Actor's Tale

Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States

By Amy Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

The nineteenth-century US entertainment industry through the perspective of an ordinary actor

Dancing Opacity

Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal

By Amy E. Swanson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies

How contemporary dancers recalibrate constructions of gender, sexuality, and race while navigating the international dance circuit

The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama

By Peng Xu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Theater and Performance

Tracing the forgotten impact of courtesans in Chinese theater

Movable Londons

Performance and the Modern City

By Julia H. Fawcett
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Class Studies

How people can shape a city’s spaces, and how a city can shape its people

Mass Performance

Systems and Citizens

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sociology, Cultural Studies

A history of mass performance systems, how they arise during eras of nationalization, and how they are shaped by modernity

Backstaging Modern Chinese Theatre

Intellectuals, Amateurs, and Cultural Entrepreneurs, 1910s–1940s

By Man He
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History

First comprehensive English-language exploration of huaju during its formative decades, delivered from the perspective of the backstage

Enveloping Worlds

Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance

Edited by E.B. Hunter & Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

A collection analyzing immersive, participatory performances as it has developed in the U.S.

The Performance Apparatus

On Ideological Production of Behaviors

By Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Theater and Performance

 How aesthetic performance can provide insights into the ideological creation and dissemination of behaviors
 

Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis

Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath

By John Ireland
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Theater and Performance, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how French dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War

Speaking Our Selves

New Plays by African Women

Foreword by Esi Sutherland-Addy

Edited by Asiimwe Deborah Kawe & Robert H. Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African Studies, Women's Studies

Bringing African drama to an English-speaking audience

Shipping Out

Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Ugly Productions

An Aesthetics of Greek Drama

By A. C. Duncan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Theater and Performance, History, Historical Methods and Theory

Charts the historical development and deployment of ugliness in Greek drama

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Dancing on the Fault Lines of History

Selected Essays

By Susan Manning
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Encapsulating a career of studying modern dance

Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

By Jonathan Shandell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A critical history of Black culture post-World War II that helped cultivate the spirit of Black revolutionary theater

A Queer History of Flamenco

Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808–2018)

Translated by Ryan Rockmore

By Fernando López Rodríguez
Translated by Ryan Rockmore
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Revealing the LGBTQ+ lives of Flamenco artists

A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Reference, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

The first commentary on Plautus’ Curculio in over forty years

The Revolution Will Be Improvised

The Intimacy of Cultural Activism

By Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

Fantasies of Ito Michio

By Tara Rodman
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Japan, Theater and Performance, Biography
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Dancing with the Modernist City

Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900

By Wesley Lim
Subjects: German Studies, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Combining urban experiences and modern dance to develop metropolitan dance texts

Cue Tears

On the Act of Crying

By Daniel Sack
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art Theory

Lively essays on the meanings and methods of tears in performance

Alchemies of Theater

Plays, Scores, Writings

By Dick Higgins
Edited by Bonnie Marranca
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, American Literature

 Illuminating the extensive contributions of Dick Higgins to theater

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