A Gambler's Instinct

Milly S Barranger

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford (1902-1986) declared in her 1977 autobiography, "The theatre has been my life." Crawford was notoriously circumspect... Lees meer

Off Sites

Bertie Ferdman

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Honorable Mention, ATHE's 2018 Outstanding Book Award Contextualizing the techniques and methods of the incredibly rich and vital genre of site-specif... Lees meer

The Theatre of Sabina Berman

Sabina Berman

• Hardcover | Theater in the Americas
• This work introduces and makes accessible to an English-speaking audience the work of the contemporary Mexican playwright Sabina Berman. It contains t... Lees meer

Stage, Page, Scandals, and Vandals

David L Rinear

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In this first modern book-length biography of native Englander William E. Burton, theatre historian David L. Rinear explores Burton's diary, letters, ... Lees meer

Messiah of the New Technique

Jonathan L Chambers

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937 is a critical and political biography and a cultural and ... Lees meer

Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre

Shauna Vey

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• From 1855 until 1863, the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians, a professional acting company of approximately thirty children, entertained audiences wi... Lees meer

Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory

E J Westlake

• Hardcover | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory: Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala adds to a growing and timely body of work on nationalist dra... Lees meer

American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism

David Bisaha

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• An inclusive history of the professionalization of American scenic design The figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the e... Lees meer

Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina

Noe Montez

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Author Noe Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, produces memory narratives that change public reception to a government's transitional... Lees meer

Stage for Action

Chrystyna Dail

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Drawing on underexplored and only recently available archives, author Chrystyna Dail examines the influence of Stage for Action, a theatre group found... Lees meer

Systemic Dramaturgy

Michael Mark Chemers, Mike Sell

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Working theatrically with technology Systemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age a... Lees meer

Entertaining the Nation

Tice L Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in ... Lees meer

Words at Play

Felicia Hardison Londre

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In this encompassing and accessible introduction to dramaturgy, Felicia Hardison Londré promotes the dramaturgical essay as both an art form and as a ... Lees meer

Ghost Light

Michael Mark Chemers

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy offers useful and entertaining answers to the confounding questions: "What, exactly, is dramaturg... Lees meer

Women in Turmoil

Mercedes de Acosta

• Hardcover | Theater in the Americas
• Publishing these six plays by Mercedes de Acosta, theatre historian Robert A. Schanke rescues lost theatrical writings from obscurity. The plays, incl... Lees meer

Richard Barr

David A Crespy

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In Richard Barr: The Playwright's Producer , author David A. Crespy investigates the career of one of the theatre's most vivid luminaries, from his wo... Lees meer

Words at Play

Felicia Hardison Londre

• Hardcover | Theater in the Americas
• Compiles dramaturgical essays with writing tips. The author Felicia Hardison Londre promotes the dramaturgical essay as an art form and as a method fo... Lees meer

Contemporary Latina/O Theater

Jon D Rossini

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In Contemporary Latina/o Theater , Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented ... Lees meer

Staging America

Sonja Kuftinec

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• This captivating study maps a history and theory of community-based theater in the United States through the Cornerstone Theater Company. Detailing ho... Lees meer

Experiments in Democracy

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of American theatres and theatre artists fostered interracial collaboration and socialization on ... Lees meer

The Theatre of Sabina Berman

Sabina Berman

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• 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 con... Lees meer

Performing Loss

Jodi Kanter

• Paperback | Engels | Theater in the Americas
• In Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing , author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our ... Lees meer

Staging America

Sonja Kuftinec

• Hardcover | Theater in the Americas
• This study maps a history and theory of community-based theatre in the US, through the Cornerstone Theater Company. It details how the performance-mak... Lees meer