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Theater and Performance

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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

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

Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

Staging Desire

Queer Readings of American Theater History

Edited by Kimberley Bell Marra & Robert A. Schanke
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

Act Like a Man

Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

By Robert H Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Sexuality Studies

How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are present—and what it tells us about power and gender

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

By David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Music, Popular Music
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

Queer Nightlife

By Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Prismatic Performances

Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation

By April Sizemore-Barber
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Exploring the contradictions of post-Apartheid South Africa through performance

Ishtyle

Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

By Kareem Khubchandani
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay nightlife as sociopolitical performance

The Bodies of Others

Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.

Charles Ludlam Lives!

Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company

By Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Explores the enduring queer legacy of playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam

 

Memories of the Revolution

The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater

Edited by Holly Hughes & Carmelita Tropicana
By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Scripts, interviews, photos, and critical commentary documenting the riotous beginnings of this long-lived experimental theater space for women 

Murder Most Queer

The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater

By Jordan Schildcrout
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

A fascinating look at the shifting meanings of murderous gay characters in American theater over a century

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Acts of Gaiety

LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

By Sara Warner
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

2nd Edition

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies

This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography

The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan

By David Greenspan
Edited by Marc Robinson
Contributions by Judy Boals & Inc.
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

A leading playwright explores issues of memory, family, doubt, and sexuality

A Menopausal Gentleman

The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw

By Peggy Shaw
Edited by Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The evocative performances of Peggy Shaw, cross-dressed and class-conscious performance artist

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles

Investigating Gender as Performance

By Diane Torr
Edited by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops

Queering Mestizaje

Transculturation and Performance

By Alicia Arrizon
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Rethinking mestizaje and how it functions as an epistemology of colonialism in diverse sites from Aztlán to Manila, and across a range of cultural materials

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