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The Time of Laughter

Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan

By David Humphrey
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance

By Monique Mojica & Brenda Farnell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Native American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A unique in-depth study of a culture-specific approach to Indigenous dramaturgy that challenges Eurocentric ideologies

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

The Creativity Complex

Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

By Shannon Steen
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it

Viewers in Distress

Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

By Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity

The changing politics of reception, and how rebellious spectators are redefining the avant-garde

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

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

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

Act Like a Man

Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

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

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

Drama in the Language Classroom

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Carmela Romano Gillette & Deric McNish
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL), Theater and Performance

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

Edited by Diane Piccitto & Terry F. Robinson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature

Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage

Trial by Farce

A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage

By Jody Enders
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Medieval and Renaissance Studies

In the Middle Ages as now, the search for justice can make for high drama—or low drama—as in these hilarious French legal farces in translation

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

Latinx Shakespeares

Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater

By Carla Della Gatta
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Investigates more than 140 Latinx-themed productions or adaptations of Shakespeare in the United States

In the Lurch

Verbatim Theater and the Crisis of Democratic Deliberation

By Ryan Claycomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies

A spirited examination of the changing cultural climate for a once-lauded theatrical form

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