Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...

Jester and Svich talk to writers from the US, the UK, and countries around the world about what it means to be a playwright today....

What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?

The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.

Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the epic story of the Athens, Georgia music scene...

Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...

Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...

Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Zeitlin taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love,,,

Svich remains one of America’s most exciting playwrights, and this book collects some of her most invigorating work yet.

From backstage moms to tiny divas to dinner theatres, Wolf demonstrates that this charming pastime of American culture that is anything but past...

For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.

The graphic novel vibrantly recreates the experience of watching Rude Mechs perform...

Playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam (1943-87) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s...

Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...

Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..

Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?

These essays trace important developments in performance art both in the Los Angeles and New York scenes, discuss artists including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Meredith Monk, and Lin Hixson...

Can care be enacted through art?