Books Received

If you would like to write a review for JADT, please contact our current book review editor Maya Roth at [email protected]. If you know of a book that would be suitable for review in JADT, please arrange for a copy to be mailed to the Editors, JADT/Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016-4309.

Acree, William Garrett. Staging Frontiers: The Making of Modern Popular Culture in Argentina and Uruguay. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019.

Auslander, Philip. In Concert: Performing Musical Persona. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Bharucha, Rustom. The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture. 2022.

Busby, Selina and Kelly Freebody, Charlene Rajendran, eds. The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People. 2022.

Byrne, Kevin. Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age. Abingdon, Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2020.

Cohen, Cynthia and Roberto Gutiérrez Varea and Polly O. Walker, editors. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict. 2021.

Dudeck, Theresa Robbins and Caitlin McClure. Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre. 2018.

Essin, Christin. Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Fleming Jr., Julius. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. NYU Press, 2022.

Forsgren, La Donna. Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020.

Galella, Donatella. America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2019.

Gallagher-Ross, Jacob. Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Geigner, Megan E and Stuart J. Hecht and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, editors. Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance. 2021.

Graham, Kenneth and Alysia Kolentsis, eds. Shakespeare On Stage and Off. Montreal, Quebec: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2019.

Grover-Friedlander, Michal. Staging Voice. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2022.

Haywood, Michelle, and Susan Kattwinkel, eds. Performing Arts as High-Impact Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Heller, Meredith. Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending. 2022.

Hernández, Paola S. Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021.

Herrera, Patricia. Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From the Café to Hip Hop Theater. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Hernández, Paola. Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives. Northwestern UP 2021.

Heuvel, Mike Vanden, ed. American Theatre Ensembles, 1970-1975. London; New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2020.

Hunter, Lindsay Brandon. Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief. Northwestern UP, 2021.

Jones, Megan Sanborn. Contemporary Mormon Pageantry: Seeking After the Dead. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Klein, Emily, Jen-Scott Mobley, and Jill Stevenson, editors. Performing Dream Homes: Theater and the Spatial Politics of the Domestic Sphere. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Knapp, Raymond. Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.

La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Laine, Eero. Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2020.

Lee, Graham W., Marv Westwood, and George Belliveau. Contact! Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Lee, Josephine. Milestones in Asian American Theatre. 2022.

Lunberry, Clark, and Joseph Roach, eds. The Very Thought of Herbert Blau. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Looser, Diana. Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific. Ann Arbor: MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021. (AVBL AGAIN)

Lutterbie, John. An Introduction to Theatre, Performance and the Cognitive Sciences. London; New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019.

 

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 35, Number 1 (Fall 2021)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2022 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center