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A Practitioner Reflects on An Actress Prepares - An Actress Prepares: Women and “the Method.” By Rosemary Malague. London: Routledge, 2012; pp. x + 254. $131 cloth, $33.95 paper, $33.95 e-book.
Deb Margolin
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29 August 2013, pp. 441-443
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Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights. Edited by Barry Paris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012; pp. xi + 386, 26 illustrations. $27.95 cloth, $16.95 paper, $14.99 e-book.
Fonzie D. Geary II
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29 August 2013, pp. 444-445
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Performed Otherwise: The Political and Social Possibilities of Asian/American Performance
Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Elizabeth W. Son
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03 January 2013, pp. 131-139
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For this special edition of “Critical Stages,” Chambers-Letson and Son meditate on the following questions: What are the exigencies that animate your entry into the field of theatre and performance studies? How does a shared project in Asian American performance offer a range of possibilities for thinking through pressing political questions and crises that seem otherwise insurmountable?

Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010; pp. xxvii + 453, illustrated. $45 cloth. - Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany. By Stephen Sondheim. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011; pp. xxiii + 457, illustrated. $45 cloth.
Jason Fitzgerald
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22 April 2013, pp. 310-313
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Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s. By Iris Smith Fischer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; pp. xii + 266, 23 illustrations. $60 cloth, $29.95 paper.
Natka Bianchini
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22 April 2013, pp. 313-315
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National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion. By Erin Hurley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011; pp. 264. $45 cloth, $44.99 e-book.
Joanne Tompkins
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03 January 2013, pp. 141-143
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Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training. Edited by Jonathan Pitches. London: Routledge, 2012; pp. xiv + 218, 22 illustrations. $120 cloth, $39.95 paper, $36.95 e-book.
Jessica Hinds-Bond
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29 August 2013, pp. 445-447
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Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays. By James Al-Shamma. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011; pp. viii + 220, 38 illustrations. $45 paper, $29.99 e-book.
Deborah A. Kochman
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29 August 2013, pp. 448-450
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The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice. By Judith Pascoe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; pp. xiv + 160, 17 illustrations. $50 cloth.
Celestine Woo
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22 April 2013, pp. 315-317
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Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes. Edited by Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender. Theatre: Theory–Practice–Performance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010; pp. 272, 87 illustrations. $84.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
Roger Bechtel
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03 January 2013, pp. 143-145
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The Political Theatre of David Edgar: Negotiation and Retrieval. By Janelle Reinelt and Gerald Hewitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; pp. x + 314, 15 illustrations. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.
Brian E. G. Cook
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29 August 2013, pp. 450-452
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Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface. By Anne Anlin Cheng. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011; pp. 256, 25 illustrations. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper, $18.99 e-book. - A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken, 1835–1868, America's Original Superstar. By Michael Foster and Barbara Foster. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2011; pp. xx + 348, 32 illustrations. $24.95 cloth, $19.99 e-book.
Jocelyn L. Buckner
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22 April 2013, pp. 317-320
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Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance. By D. Soyini Madison. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; pp. 322 + 10 illustrations. $104 cloth, $36 paper, $83 e-book.
Jessica M. Brown-Velez
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03 January 2013, pp. 145-147
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The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage. By Soyica Diggs Colbert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; pp. xiii + 329, 11 illustrations. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.
Yumi Pak
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22 April 2013, pp. 320-323
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Site-Specific Performance. By Mike Pearson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; pp. 272, 33 illustrations. $85 cloth, $31 paper.
Bertie Ferdman
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03 January 2013, pp. 148-150
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Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633. By Lisa Hopkins. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011; pp. x + 178. $99.95 cloth, $99.95 e-book.
Miranda Garno Nesler
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29 August 2013, pp. 452-453
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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890–1930. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011; pp. viii + 374, 42 illustrations. $65 cloth, $27.50 paper, $65 e-book. - Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance. By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011; pp. xvi + 330, 15 illustrations. $39.95 cloth, $39.95 e-book.
Kevin Byrne
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22 April 2013, pp. 323-327
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Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amy E. Hughes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012; $75 cloth, $60 e-book.
David Mayer
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29 August 2013, pp. 453-455
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Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance. By Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010; pp. 314, 19 illustrations. $70 cloth, $26.95 paper.
Tom Fish
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03 January 2013, pp. 150-151
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Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance. By Nick Salvato. Yale Studies in English. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010; pp. vii + 227. $40 paper.
Benjamin Gillespie
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03 January 2013, pp. 152-154
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Volume 54 - September 2013

Book Reviews: Edited by Kim Solga, with Sally Colwell

A Practitioner Reflects on An Actress Prepares - An Actress Prepares: Women and “the Method.” By Rosemary Malague. London: Routledge, 2012; pp. x + 254. $131 cloth, $33.95 paper, $33.95 e-book.

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights. Edited by Barry Paris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012; pp. xi + 386, 26 illustrations. $27.95 cloth, $16.95 paper, $14.99 e-book.

Critical Stages: Edited by Patrick Anderson

Performed Otherwise: The Political and Social Possibilities of Asian/American Performance

Book Reviews: Edited by Kim Solga, with Sally Colwell

Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theater in the 1970s. By Iris Smith Fischer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; pp. xii + 266, 23 illustrations. $60 cloth, $29.95 paper.

National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion. By Erin Hurley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011; pp. 264. $45 cloth, $44.99 e-book.

Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training. Edited by Jonathan Pitches. London: Routledge, 2012; pp. xiv + 218, 22 illustrations. $120 cloth, $39.95 paper, $36.95 e-book.

Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays. By James Al-Shamma. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011; pp. viii + 220, 38 illustrations. $45 paper, $29.99 e-book.

The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice. By Judith Pascoe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011; pp. xiv + 160, 17 illustrations. $50 cloth.

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes. Edited by Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender. Theatre: Theory–Practice–Performance. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010; pp. 272, 87 illustrations. $84.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

The Political Theatre of David Edgar: Negotiation and Retrieval. By Janelle Reinelt and Gerald Hewitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; pp. x + 314, 15 illustrations. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.

Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance. By D. Soyini Madison. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; pp. 322 + 10 illustrations. $104 cloth, $36 paper, $83 e-book.

The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage. By Soyica Diggs Colbert. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; pp. xiii + 329, 11 illustrations. $99 cloth, $79 e-book.

Site-Specific Performance. By Mike Pearson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; pp. 272, 33 illustrations. $85 cloth, $31 paper.

Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633. By Lisa Hopkins. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011; pp. x + 178. $99.95 cloth, $99.95 e-book.

Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amy E. Hughes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012; $75 cloth, $60 e-book.

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance. By Diane Torr and Stephen Bottoms. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010; pp. 314, 19 illustrations. $70 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance. By Nick Salvato. Yale Studies in English. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010; pp. vii + 227. $40 paper.

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