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Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carn...
Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...
60 min
1052
Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Sur...
Rahmaninejad's memoir provides a fascinating glimpse into the political and artistic life of Iran...
65 min
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C. Jester and C. Svich, "Fifty Playwrights on t...
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....
46 min
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Marianna Ritchey, "Composing Capital: Classical...
What is the place of classical music in contemporary society?
47 min
1055
Creshema R. Murray, "Leadership Through the Len...
The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.
45 min
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Grace Elizabeth Hale, "Cool Town: How Athens, G...
Grace Elizabeth Hale tells the epic story of the Athens, Georgia music scene...
80 min
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François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir"...
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....
78 min
1058
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Un...
Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...
62 min
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Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Fu...
Redmond explores the ways in which Paul Robeson, silenced by state repression in his lifetime, still speaks to us today....
61 min
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Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theat...
Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...
59 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1062
Ian Burrows, "Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Sl...
Burrows examines the fraught meeting place of slapstick and tragedy, asking us under what literary and performative conditions we extend and withhold sympathy....
64 min
1063
Steve Zeitlin, "The Poetry of Everyday Life: St...
Zeitlin taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love,,,
66 min
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Caridad Svich, "The Hour of All Things and Othe...
Svich remains one of America’s most exciting playwrights, and this book collects some of her most invigorating work yet.
78 min
1065
Stacy Wolf, "Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and ...
From backstage moms to tiny divas to dinner theatres, Wolf demonstrates that this charming pastime of American culture that is anything but past...
64 min
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Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American ...
For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.
36 min
1067
Lana Lesley, "Rude Mechs’ Lipstick Traces" (53r...
The graphic novel vibrantly recreates the experience of watching Rude Mechs perform...
55 min
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Sean F. Edgecomb, "Charles Ludlam Lives!" (U Mi...
Playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam (1943-87) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s...
42 min
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Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
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Shay Welch, "The Phenomenology of a Performativ...
Welch investigates the phenomenological ways that dance choreographing and dance performance exemplify both Truth and meaning-making within Native American epistemology,..
61 min
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James Shapiro, "Shakespeare in a Divided Americ...
Shapiro turns his attention to the reception of Shakespeare in the US from the colonial period to the present...
67 min
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
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Caspar Melville, "It's a London Thing: How Rare...
How does music help us to understand the contemporary city?
42 min
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Jacki Apple, "Performance / Media / Art / Cultu...
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...
101 min
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Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Work...
Can care be enacted through art?
48 min