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The Choral Turn

Performing the Chorus in the Ruins of Democracy

By Amy Holzapfel
Subjects: Theater and Performance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Tracing how the ancient Greek chorus has resurfaced in contemporary theatre, performance and activism

Sanctuary Stage

The Greenwich Mews Theatre, 1951-1974

By Hillary Miller
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies

A cultural history of one of the first Off-Broadway playhouses with interracial casting

Problem Solved!

The Music and Theater of The Negro Problem

By Stew Stewart, Heidi Rodewald
Edited by Brandon Woolf
Contributions by Scott Kurashige, and Tavia Nyong'o
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Theater and Performance, African American Studies
Series: Critical Performances

Theater and Democracy in an Era of Immersion

By James R Ball
Subjects: Theater and Performance

The immersive theatricality of democracy

Split Britches

Fifty Years On

Edited by Benjamin Gillespie
By Peggy Shaw & Lois Weaver
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

A critical anthology of performance texts, interviews, and essays on the later work of Split Britches

When the Ocean Holds the Stage

Moby-Dick and Archipelagic Worlds

By Maurya Wickstrom
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

What happens when the ocean and the ship become a stage

Performance Beyond the Pale

Meditations on Art, Activism, and Bodies in Extremis

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Activism

The performative logic of political and cultural acts dismissed as too extreme or excessive

Feeling Yellow

Asian Americans and Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre

By Donatella Galella
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A contemporary history of the usage of yellowface in musical theatre

Theatre Things

Material Theories and Histories

Edited by Andrew Friedman & Eero Laine
Subjects: Theater and Performance

Objects and spaces shaping theatre as we know it

Fictions of the Real

Synergies Between Screen and Stage in Argentine Performance

By Brenda Werth
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Re-centers the impact of the real on the praxis of art in Argentine performance

Beyond the Fourth Wall of War

Theater and Therapy for Embodied Trauma

By Elise R. Morrison
Subjects: Theater and Performance

How contemporary theater represents and responds to war trauma

Aesthetics of Displacement

Movement, Archives, and Performance in Contemporary Colombia

By Melissa Blanco Borelli
Subjects: Dance, Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies, Theater and Performance

Movement and performance as a means of resistance and identity formation in contemporary Colombia

Staging Visitation

Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places

Edited by Bryan W. Schmidt & Weston Twardowski
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Travel

How tourism becomes a site for the performance of identity

Late Stage

Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging

Edited by Benjamin Gillespie & Cindy Rosenthal
With Elinor Fuchs
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Examining age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage

K-Pop Fandom

Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today

By Areum Jeong
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Asian Studies, Korea, Theater and Performance, Fan Studies

An autoethnography of the K-pop fandom and its evolution

Homebodies

Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media

By L. Archer Porter
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Media Studies, New Media

How social media transforming authenticity into a choreographed and commodified image

Curating the Commons

Socially Engaged Public Art

By Katia Arfara
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Urban Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

In-depth explorations of socially engaged public artworks from the perspective of a curator and scholar

Acting the Part

Audience Participation in Performance

By E.B. 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

Movable Londons

Performance and the Modern City

By Julia H. Fawcett
Subjects: Theater and Performance

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

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

An Actor's Tale

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

By Amy E. Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

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

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

Queer Relajo

Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad

By David Tenorio
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

An escapade into the nightly ambiance of Mexico City

Mass Performance

Systems and Citizens

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance

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

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