Upcoming Theater Book Releases for June 2012

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Funny
by David Misch
Released on Applause on 6/1/12

Funny: The Book is an entertaining look at the art of comedy, from its historical roots to the latest scientific findings, with diversions into the worlds of movies (Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers), television (The Office), prose (Woody Allen, Robert Benchley), theater (The Front Page), jokes and stand-up comedy (Richard Pryor, Steve Martin), as well as personal reminiscences from the author... (more...)

Shakespeare
by Jonathan Bate,Dora Thornton
Released on Oxford University Press on 6/1/12

For any lover of Shakespeare, the thought of time-traveling back to London to see one of his plays at the Globe represents the ultimate theatrical fantasy. The look and feel of Shakespeare's London, the streets, shops, and churches the poet would have visited; the bookstalls where he found source material; the objects that appeared on his stages or sparked his imagination--what were they like? ... (more...)

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Piano/Vocal Selections
by Bono, The Edge
Released on Hal Leonard Corporation on 6/1/12

This matching folio features 14 songs from the much-hyped Broadway musical composed by U2's Bono and The Edge. Songs include: Bouncing off the Walls * Boy Falls from the Sky * A Freak like Me Needs Company * If the World Should End * No More * Picture This * Pull the Trigger * Sinistereo * Turn off the Dark * and more.... (more...)

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - Piano/Vocal Selections
by David Yazbek
Released on Hal Leonard on 6/1/12

14 songs from the Broadway musical based on the film by Pedro Almodovar. Score by David Yazbek. Includes "Invisible," "Island," "Lie to Me," "Lovesick," "Madrid Is My Mama," "The Microphone," "Model Behavior," "Mother's Day," "My Crazy Heart," "On the Verge," "Shoes from Heaven."... (more...)

The Little Princess Vocal Selections
by Andrew Lippa
Released on Hal Leonard Corporation on 6/1/12

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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - The Musical
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Released on Hal Leonard Corporation on 6/4/12

Adapted from Stephan Elliott's 1994 cult-classic film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the Tony-winning musical is a comedy of errors involving two drag queens and a transsexual trekking through the remote Australian desert to a drag show in small resort town. Our songbook features 19 well-known pop songs from the score: Don't Leave Me This Way * Girls Just Want to Have Fun * Go W... (more...)

David Mamet
by Ira B. Nadel
Released on Palgrave Macmillan on 6/5/12

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Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play [
by Rick Elice
Released on Disney Editions on 6/5/12

The hilarious script for the Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is presented along with commentary by the playwright, the directors, the composer, the set designer, and our own Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Filled with behind-the-scenes information and photos of the cast and crew, this annotated script will enchant and entertain fans of the book and the play alike. ... (more...)

Chinglish
by David Henry Hwang
Released on Theatre Communications Group on 6/12/12

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Chinglish, an uproarious new comedy by two-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face). Chinglish received its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 2011 before transferring to Broadway later that year. Declared the “Best American Play of 2011” by Time magazine, Chinglish will be adapted ... (more...)

The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities
by Katharine Weber
Released on Broadway on 6/12/12

The Memory of All That is Katharine Weber’s memoir of her extraordinary family. Her maternal grandmother, Kay Swift, was known both for her own music (she was the first woman to compose the score to a hit Broadway show, Fine and Dandy) and for her ten-year romance with George Gershwin. Their love affair began during Swift’s marriage to James Paul Warburg, the multitalented banker and economist... (more...)

Adapting Chekhov
by J. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon
Released on Routledge on 6/15/12

This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape of Chekhovian influences in drama. The volume examines the elusive quality of Chekhov’s dramatic universe as an intricate mechanism, an engine in which his enigmatic characters exist as the dramatic and psychological ciphers we have been de-coding for a century, and continue to do ... (more...)

Theater Careers
by Tim Donahue,Jim Patterson
Released on University of South Carolina Press on 6/15/12

Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business. Tim Donahue and Jim Patterson offer well-researched information on various professions, salary ranges, educational and experience requirements, and other facets certain to enlighten students contemplating a ... (more...)

TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault
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Released on Intellect Ltd on 6/15/12

Transgendered playwright, performer, columnist, and sex worker Nina Arsenault has undergone more than sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault, Judith Rudakoff brings together a diverse group of contributors, including artists, scholars, and Arsenault herself to offer an exploration of beauty, image, and the notion of queerness through the ... (more...)

Garrison Keillor and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
by Garrison Keillor
Released on HighBridge Company on 6/19/12

Garrison Keillor and Philip Brunelle have performed together with a long list of great orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago, L.A. Philharmonic, Cleveland, St. Louis, Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle, and San Francisco. After years on the road, they brought the show home to St. Paul, the Fitzgerald Theater, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As always, Keillor served as a... (more...)

Theatre and War
by Jeanne Colleran
Released on Design Studio Press on 6/19/12

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Theatre for Change
by Robert Landy,David T. Montgomery
Released on Palgrave Macmillan on 6/19/12

Providing an international overview of the latest work and thinking in Drama and Education, and featuring interviews with a worldwide variety of leading practitioners and theorists, this book explores how Educational Theatre, Applied Theatre and Drama Therapy facilitate change within schools, community centres, prisons, and theatres.... (more...)

When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance
by Miriam Neirick
Released on University of Wisconsin Press on 6/24/12

For more than seven decades the circuses enjoyed tremendous popularity in the Soviet Union. How did the circus—an institution that dethroned figures of authority and refused any orderly narrative structure—become such a cultural mainstay in a state known for blunt and didactic messages? Miriam Neirick argues that the variety, flexibility, and indeterminacy of the modern circus accounted for its a... (more...)

Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays
by Jose Rivera
Released on Theatre Communications Group on 6/26/12

Three new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the Disenchanted is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With Brainpeople, Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalypt... (more...)

Acting in Real Time
by Paul Binnerts
Released on University of Michigan Press on 6/28/12

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Harold Pinter
by Robert Gordon
Released on University of Michigan Press on 6/28/12

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The Myopia and Other Plays
by David Greenspan
Released on University of Michigan Press on 6/28/12

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The Second City Unscripted
by Mike Thomas
Released on Northwestern University Press on 6/30/12

Since its modest beginning in 1959, The Second City in Chicago has become a world-renowned bastion of hilarity. A training ground for many of today’s top comedic talents—including Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Bill Murray, and Amy Sedaris— it was an early blueprint for improv-based sketch revues in North America and abroad. Its immeasurable influence also extends to televisi... (more...)

Theatre and the Politics of Space
by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz
Released on Routledge on 6/30/12

This collection considers what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place, asking under which circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book focuses on this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. From its very beginnings, theatre has been both... (more...)

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