Below is a list of titles received by Theatre History Studies; this list is posted , and it will be updated periodically, as new titles arrive. Book Review inquiries should be directed to Kellen Hoxworth, Book Review Editor:
Kellen Hoxworth
Department of Theatre & Dance
University at Buffalo – SUNY
285 Alumni Arena
Buffalo, NY 14260
BOOKS RECEIVED
* indicates title assigned for review
Books listed were received by May 2024.
Adams, Sarah. Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
Asari, Masi. Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.
*Baird, Bruce. A History of Butô. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Barker, Roberta. Symptoms of the Self: Tuberculosis and the Making of the Modern Stage. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022.
*Boffone, Trevor and Carla Della Gatta, eds. Shakespeare and Latinidad. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Boselli, Stefano. Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentines of Paris. Cham: Palgrave, 2023.
Cantu, Maya. Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Carriger, Michelle Liu. Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Subjectivity, and Performance Between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2023.
*Cermatori, Joseph. Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Chow, Broderick D.V. Muscle Works: Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024.
Chun, Tarryn Li-Min. Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Cizmar, Elizabeth M. Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy. London: Routledge, 2023.
*Cox, Jordana. Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023.
*Cox, Virginia and Lisa Sampson. Trans. Anna Wainwright. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The life and works of Leonora Bernardi. London: University College London Press, 2023.
*Cruz, Gabriela. Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
*D’Alessandro, Michael. Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Della Gatta, Carla. Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Dick, Bruce Allen. Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2024.
*Donovan, Ryan. Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
*Dorwart, Jason B. The Incorporeal Corpse: Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
Elliott, Kenneth. Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023.
*Farfan, Penny and Leslie Farris. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
*Farnsworth, Mae Summer. Feminist Rehearsals: Gender at the Theatre in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina and Mexico. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023.
Fleming Jr., Julius B. Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation. New York: New York University Press, 2022.
Florescu, Cǎtǎlina Florina. Female Playwrights and Applied Intersectionality in Romanian Theatre. London: Routledge, 2024.
Gagliardi, Paul. All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023.
Hallinan, Victoria. The Moiseyev Dance Company Tours America: “Wholesome” Comfort during a Cold War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023.
*Jackson, Julie. The Spectacular Theatre of Frank Galati: Reshaping American Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. London: Methuen Drama, 2023.
Jackson, Shannon. Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022.
Johnson, Katie N. Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Lalu, Premesh. Undoing Apartheid. Cambridge, UK, and Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2023.
Layne, Priscilla Dionne, and Lily Tonger-Erk (eds.). Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Leiter, Samuel L. Meiji Kabuki through Foreign Eyes. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
*Lipton, Emma. Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
*Liu, Siyuan. Transforming Tradition: The Reform of Chinese Theater in the 1950s and Early 1960s. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Łuska, Agata. Polish Theatre Revisited: Theatre Fans in the Nineteenth Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023.
*MacDonald, Laura and Ryan Donovan, eds. The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre. London: Routledge, 2022.
Mahala, Macelle. Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022.
*McGillivray, Glen. Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment. London: Palgrave, 2023.
*McKelvey, Patrick. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. New York: New York University Press, 2024.
*Menon, Jisha. Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. Evanston, IL. Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Mihaylova, Stefka. Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Mojica, Monique, and Brenda Farnell. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Morgan, Cecilia. Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2022.
Mujica, Bárbara, ed. Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish Theater. Malaga, Spain: Vernon Press, 2022.
Nakamura, Jessica, and Katherine Saltzman-Li (eds.). Realisms in East Asian Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
*Ndiaye, Noémie. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Nereson, Ariel. Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022.
O’Leary, Catherine and Michael Thompson. Theatre Censorship in Spain, 1931–1985. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2023.
*O’Quinn, Daniel. Corrosive Solace: Affect, Biopolitics, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Owen, Louise. Restaging the Future: Neoliberalism, Theater, and Performance in Britain. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024.
*Owens, Craig N. Staging Technology: Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama. London: Methuen Drama, 2021.
*Persley, Nicole Hodges. Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip Hop Theater and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Piccitto, Diane, and Terry F. Robinson (eds.). The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Prest, Julie (ed.). Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre: Issues in Research, Writing, and Methodology. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023.
Román, David, and Sean Edgecomb. The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness, and Radical Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Rossini, Jon D. Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Sack, Daniel. Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Schneider, Magnus Tessing, and Meike Wagner, eds. Performing the Eighteenth Century: Theatrical Discourses, Practices, and Artefacts. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2023
*Scott, Michelle R. T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz-Age America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Scott-Bottoms, Stephen J. Incarceration Games: A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Steen, Shannon. The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
*Valente-Quinn, Brian. Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Wagner, Martin. A Stage for Debate: The Political Significance of Vienna’s Burghteater, 1814-1867. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Weiss, Naomi. Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.
Wessel, Jane. Owning Property | Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Westgate, J. Chris. Rowdy Carousals: The Bowery Boy on Stage, 1848-1913. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2024.
*Wood, Katelyn Hale. Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century United States. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021.
*Wynstra, Beth. Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023.
Zhulina, Alisa. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2024.