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BC, Paperback, PER011000, PER011020, PER014000, Southern Illinois University Press
Angels in the American Theater
Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy examines the significant roles that theater patrons have played in shaping and developing theater in the United States. Because box office…
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BB, LIT004020, PER011020, PER011030, Southern Illinois University Press, Trade Cloth
Art Isn’t Easy
The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life.Confident that the musical is America’s greatest original…
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BB, Bloomsbury Academic, PER011020, SOC002010, With dust jacket
Badhai
This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh,…
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BB, BIO005000, Hardback, PER011020, PER011040, Southern Illinois University Press
Beyond the Mask
Eynat-Confino goes beyond the usual consideration of Craig’s purported theories of the actor, scenery, and the scene painter to get at the heart of Craig’s idea of theater.She draws not…
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BC, Paperback, PER011020, SOC012000, Southern Illinois University Press
Caffe Cino
“It’s Magic Time!” That colorful promise began each performance at the Caffe Cino, the storied Greenwich Village coffeehouse that fostered the gay and alternative theatre movements of the 1960s and…
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BC, HIS000000, HIS036010, Paperback, PER011020, Southern Illinois University Press
Chicago Death Trap
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six…
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BC, Paperback, PER011000, PER011020, Southern Illinois University Press
Composing Ourselves
When movies replaced theatre as popular entertainment in the years 1910–20, the world of live drama was wide open for reform. American advocates and practitioners founded theatres in a spirit…
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BB, DRA001000, Hardback, PER011020, Southern Illinois University Press
Creating the Self in the Contemporary American Theatre
Combining his skills as both a professional reviewer of theatre and a literary critic, Robert J. Andreach finds himself in a unique position to provide coherence to what most observers…
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BB, Hardback, PER011000, PER011020, Southern Illinois University Press
Dario Fo
Joseph Farrell and Antonio Scuderi present an international collection of essays reevaluating the multifaceted performance art of Nobel laureate Dario Fo. The contributors, all of whom either have previously published…
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BC, DRA001000, Paperback, PER011020, Southern Illinois University Press
Entertaining the Nation
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to…
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BB, Bloomsbury Academic, DRA006000, LIT004190, PER011020, With dust jacket
Greek Tragedy and the Digital
Adopting an innovative and theoretical approach, Greek Tragedy and the Digital is an original study of the encounter between Greek tragedy and digital media in contemporary performance. It explores the…