ASTR 2022

Welcome to Northwestern’s virtual exhibit for the American Society for Theatre Research’s Annual Conference! Scroll down to browse notable books, read excerpts from recent publications, review submissions guidelines, request an exam copy, or contact an acquisitions editor.

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This promotion begins November 2, 2022, and concludes November 10, 2022 at midnight Central Time. The discount may be applied to five books per customer. Scroll down for a note about shipping and processing.

New Publications

Restaging the Future

Louise Owen

The Crooked Mirror

Laurence Senelick, Laurence Senelick

The Poem, the Garden, and the World

Jim Ellis

Black Theater, City Life

Macelle Mahala

Back Stages

Shannon Jackson

The Hygienic Apparatus

Paul Dobryden

Queer Velocities

Jennifer Eun-Jung Row

Notable Books

Subjects of Affection

Anna Rosensweig

The Philosopher's Toothache

Donovan Sherman

Brutal Beauty

Jisha Menon

Dancing on Violent Ground

Arabella Stanger

The Theater of Narration

Juliet Guzzetta

Senegalese Stagecraft

Brian Valente-Quinn

Makeshift Chicago Stages

Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, Rosemarie K. Bank, Aymar Jean Christian, Shannon Epplett, Cat Gleason, Aaron Krall, LaRonika Marie Thomas, Laley Lippard, Laura A. Lodewyck, Meida McNeal, Travis Stern, Irina Zadov

Institutional Theatrics

Brandon Woolf

Staging Lives in Latin American Theater

Paola Hernández

Playing Real

Lindsay Brandon Hunter

Privileged Spectatorship

Dani Snyder-Young

Sistuhs in the Struggle

La Donna Forsgren

Sweet Tea

E. Patrick Johnson, Jane M. Saks

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Sharrell D. Luckett, David Román, Isaiah Matthew Wooden, Bryant Keith Alexander, Robert O'Hara, Katherine Nigh, Carlos Murillo, Jeffrey Q. McCune, Patrick Maley, Tina Landau, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Freda Scott Giles, Donette Francis, Shirley Jo Finney, Oskar Eustis, I. Augustus Durham, Trip Cullman, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Teo Castellanos, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Michael Boyd, GerShun Avilez, Alana Arenas, Jabari Ali, Tea Alagic, Tarell Alvin McCraney

The Necropolitical Theater

Jeffrey K. Coleman

Imitation Artist

Sunny Stalter-Pace

Theatermachine

Magda Romanska, Kathleen Cioffi, Martin Leach, Michal Kobialka, Jacob Micah Juntunen, Grzegorz Niziolek, Klaudiusz Swiecicki, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Tamara Trojanowska, Agnieszka Legutko, Nina Kiraly, Lucja Iwanczewska, Mateusz Borowski, Kris Salata, Debra Caplan, Katarzyna Fazan, Lawrence Switzky, Izumi Ashizawa, Karolina Prykowska-Michalak, Anna Róza Burzynska, Agnieszka Tworek, Anna Królica, Lauren Dubowski, Herta Schmid

Theaters of Citizenship

Sonali Pahwa

Staging Process

Rachel Anderson-Rabern

Transgenerational Remembrance

Jessica Nakamura

Encounters on Contested Lands

Julie Burelle

Viral Performance

Miriam Felton-Dansky

Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism

Patricia A. Ybarra

Time Slips

Jaclyn Pryor

The Director's Prism

Dassia N. Posner

Theater Games for Rehearsal

Viola Spolin, Carol Bleackley Sills, Rob Reiner

Theater Games for the Classroom

Viola Spolin

Excerpts

Read an excerpt from Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life by Shannon Jackson.

Read an excerpt from Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India by Jisha Menon.

Read an excerpt from Dancing on Violent Ground: Utopia as Dispossession in Euro-American Theater Dance by Arabella Stanger.

Read an excerpt from Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin by Brandon Woolf.

Read an excerpt from The Philosopher’s Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama by Donovan Sherman.

Read an excerpt from Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa by Brian Valente-Quinn.

Read an excerpt from Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives by Paola S. Hernández.

Desk and Exam Copies

Considering one of Northwestern’s books for course adoption? Request an exam copy here.

Planning to teach one of our books? Request a desk copy here.

Say Hello!

Email Faith Wilson Stein, Senior Acquisitions Editor.

Review Northwestern’s submissions guidelines.

In Conversation: Lisa B. Thompson and E. Patrick Johnson

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