Monthly Archives: May 2016

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Reports from the Front

iDream: Addressing the Gender Imbalance in STEM through Research-Informed Theatre for Social Change by Eileen Trauth, Karen Keifer-Boyd and Suzanne Trauth Setting the Stage for Science Communication: Improvisation in an Undergraduate Life Science Curriculum by Cindy L. Duckert and Elizabeth A. De Stasio Playing Sick: Training Actors for High Fidelity […]

America, Humor, and the Working Class

Susan Kattwinkel, Editor   Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater By Timothy R. White Reviewed by David Bisaha   The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian By Rick DesRochers Reviewed by Cheryl Black   Stages of Engagement Edited by Joshua E. […]

Blue-Collar Broadway

Blue Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater. By Timothy R. White. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; Pp. 275. Blue-Collar Broadway: The Craft and Industry of American Theater adds a refreshing urban studies point of view to the increasingly interdisciplinary body of work on Times Square, alongside […]

The New Humor in the Progressive Era

The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian. By Rick DesRochers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 187. Rick DesRochers’s exploration of vaudeville comedians and comediennes during vaudeville’s heyday is richly contextualized within a particular sociocultural moment, a crucial moment of rapid change in the history […]

Stages of Engagement

Stages of Engagement. Edited by Joshua E. Polster. Routledge Press: New York, NY, 2016. Pp. 241. Joshua Polster’s Stages of Engagement features eight essays that examine the relationship between United States society, culture and politics in order to demonstrate how the first half of the twentieth century was marked by […]