The Inheritor

Kate Bredeson

The first English-language translation of the 1968 ThÉÂtre de l’Aquarium activist play about two students from different backgrounds as they prepare for an exam, The Inheritor speaks forcefully as ever on education access and inequality.

  • Imprint: Curbstone Books 2
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780810147829
  • Publication Date: Nov 2024
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The Revolution Will Be Improvised

Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

An examination of revolutionary intimacy-making, experimental performance, and art activism during the civil rights movement

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780472077045
  • Publication Date: Oct 2024
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The Mee-Ow Show at 50

Joseph B. Radding

The Mee-Ow Show at 50 presents the history of Northwestern’s Mee-Ow Show, now the longest-running original student sketch comedy and improv show in the country, and its considerable impact on contemporary comedy.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780810148215
  • Publication Date: Oct 2024
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The Theatricalists

Theron Schmidt

The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear shows how theatrical conditions are interconnected with political struggles: who is seen and heard, how labor is valued, and what counts as “political” in the first place.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780810147546
  • Publication Date: Sep 2024
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Empathy and Performance

Laura V. Sández

A study of spectators and audiences at performances by Latin American and Latinx underrepresented author-actors

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780826506733
  • Publication Date: Jul 2024
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Empathy and Performance

Laura V. Sández

A study of spectators and audiences at performances by Latin American and Latinx underrepresented author-actors

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780826506740
  • Publication Date: Jul 2024
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The Taylor Mac Book

David Roman

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780472075270
  • Publication Date: Jun 2024
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Bodies on the Front Lines

Brenda Werth

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780472056736
  • Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Flight Risk

Meg Braem

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781773854717
  • Publication Date: Oct 2023
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Mimetic Desires

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780824894092
  • Publication Date: Aug 2023
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Performing Female Blackness

Naila Keleta-Mae

Examines race, gender and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. Written in poetry, prose and journal-form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, this book examines what performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender and nation in Canada.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781771124805
  • Publication Date: Jul 2023
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In the Lurch

Ryan Claycomb

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

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780472055746
  • Publication Date: Jan 2023
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Systemic Dramaturgy

Michael Mark Chemers

Systemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance. Authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell reject the incompatibility of theatre with robots, digital media, or video games. Instead, they argue that technology is the original problem of thatre: How can we tell this story and move this audience with these tools? And if we have different tools, how can that change the stories we tell?

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780809338313
  • Publication Date: Nov 2022
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American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism

David Bisaha

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780809338740
  • Publication Date: Nov 2022
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Standby

Joshua Langman

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780809338443
  • Publication Date: May 2022
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Theatre Symposium, Volume 29

Andrew Gibb

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780817370169
  • Publication Date: Apr 2022
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai Volume 3

Stan Lai

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readership

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780472055098
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai

Stan Lai

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readership

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780472075072
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai

Stan Lai

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readership

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780472075089
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai

Stan Lai

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readership

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780472155002
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
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