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Brecht Sourcebook by Henry Bial
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles... -
The Performance Studies Reader Henry Bial 9781032253978
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.13Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to offer an... -
Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions by Henry Bial 9780472071333
Booksplease Price: $102.59"Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions is an important collection. The essays on theater history are models of meticulous research engaged through rigorous theorizing and analysis; they... -
Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions by Henry Bial 9780472051335
Booksplease Price: $38.02Questions about how theater history should be taught have in recent years provoked passionate discussions. Some scholars have argued that the emerging discipline of performance studies should replace... -
Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage by Henry Bial
Booksplease Price: $39.60Whether we regard it as the collected inscriptions of an earlier oral tradition or as the divinely authored source text of liturgical ritual, the Bible can be understood as a sacred performance text,... -
Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage by Henry Bial 9780472072927
Booksplease Price: $97.07Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, ranging from early spectacles like Ben-Hur (1899) to more familiar works such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. What... -
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen by Henry Bial 9780472069088
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $26.61The history of the American entertainment industry and the history of the Jewish people in the United States are inextricably intertwined. Jews have provided Broadway and Hollywood with some of their... -
Great North American Stage Directors Volume 4: George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, Harold Prince Henry Bial 9781350525948
Booksplease Price: $33.48George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, and Harold (Hal) Prince were trailblazing figures who helped shape and define the Broadway musical over the course of the 20th century. Their careers expanded the... -
Theatre and Judaism by Yair Lipshitz 9781352005660
Booksplease Price: $12.49This new title in the Theatre & series explores the intersections between theatre and Judaism, offering a uniquely nuanced approach as a counterpart to the more common discourse surrounding Jewish... -
The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum by James M. Harding 9780230242913
Booksplease Price: $59.70Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is... -
Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy by Debra Caplan 9780472130771
Booksplease Price: $102.62Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation, providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage... -
Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy by Debra Caplan
RRP: $42.51Booksplease Price: $40.17Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation, providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage... -
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics by Christin Essin 9780230115071
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $43.82By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American... -
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America: Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics by Christin Essin
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $40.27By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American... -
Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment: Raced, Sexed, and Erased by Carol Siegel 9780253060228
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual... -
Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment: Raced, Sexed, and Erased by Carol Siegel
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual... -
The Great North American Stage Directors Set 1: Volumes 1-4: Establishing Directorial Terrains, pre-1970 by Professor James Peck 9781350525955
Booksplease Price: $122.24The Great North American Stage Directors: Set 1 offers an authoritative account of the work, lineage and legacy of the major theatre directors prior to 1970, where the role of the director is seen... -
The Performative Power of Vocality Virginie Magnat 9781032082585
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49The Performative Power of Vocality offers a fresh perspective on voice as a subject of critical inquiry by employing an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach. Conventional treatment of voice... -
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest Garrett Eisler 9781978835948
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $36.35Ben Hecht is most remembered as a famous Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright, but only recently has his extensive Jewish activism during the Holocaust and its aftermath received scholarly... -
Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest Garrett Eisler 9781978835955
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $122.94Ben Hecht is most remembered as a famous Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright, but only recently has his extensive Jewish activism during the Holocaust and its aftermath received scholarly... -
Digital Performance in Everyday Life Lyndsay Michalik Gratch 9781138342149
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $48.88Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces... -
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance by Rebecca Rossen 9780199791774
Booksplease Price: $64.01While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle... -
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Grace Kessler Overbeke 9781479818150
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.68Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we... -
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Grace Kessler Overbeke 9781479847488
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it allFirst Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we...