Theatre Survey: Volume 59 -

Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. By Katherine Steele Brokaw . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2016; pp. xviii + 296. $65 cloth, $65 e-book.
Phebe Jensen
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16 January 2018, pp. 108-110
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B6112—Art after All: The Alleged Occupation of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Sarah Waterfeld
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25 April 2018, pp. 276-281
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B6112 is a collective anticapitalist, feminist, antiracist, and queer transmedial theatre production. Welcome to our artwork! Our theatre, our art, our poetry, and our work are weapons of struggle. Art does not take place in a political, social, or economic vacuum. Art takes place in world structured by imperialism and its slaughter, war, destruction, commerce, and slavery. Art must engage with this in both content and form. Otherwise it is obsolete. B6112 advocates a theatre that calls for revolution, reveals relationships of domination, denounces grievances, names guilty parties, presents resistance strategies, explores them, rejects them. B6112 stands for the elimination of nationalisms and gender inequality, for a global citizenship, for a world community in which all people peacefully coexist in equal living conditions. B6112 stands for self-organization and emancipation, for a hierarchy-free theatre that has a mimetic and thus exemplary effect on society. In the face of global disasters, we reject an entertainment theatre or a theatre of display that acts as an opiate in the society. Only when our goals have been achieved will we be able to renegotiate the role of the theatre for our society, redefine its content, and redefine the question of relevance.

Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance. By Robert Henke . Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015; pp. xiii + 198, 11 illustrations. $55 paper, $55 e-book.
Ernst Gerhardt
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16 January 2018, pp. 110-111
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Medieval Theatre Performance: Actors, Dancers, Automata, and Their Audiences. Edited by Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017; pp. xiv + 282, 18 illustrations. $99 cloth, $99 e-book.
Gina M. Di Salvo
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27 July 2018, pp. 421-423
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“A Total Kindergarten”: A Conversation about Chris Dercon's Volksbühne
René Pollesch, Michael Shane Boyle
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25 April 2018, pp. 282-285
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The decision to appoint Chris Dercon, director of the Tate Modern, as Frank Castorf's successor at the Volksbühne prompted an exodus of the theatre's core artistic ensemble. Chief among those who refused to stay on with Dercon at the helm was the prodigious writer and director René Pollesch.

Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History. By Paul Menzer . London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015; pp. xix + 253, 10 illustrations. $88 cloth, $29.95 paper, $23.99 e-book.
Jack Lynch
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16 January 2018, pp. 111-113
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Shakespeare's Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space at the Globe and the Blackfriars, 1599–1613. By Sarah Dustagheer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; pp. x + 226, 10 illustrations. $99.99 cloth, $80 e-book.
Nicole Sheriko
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27 July 2018, pp. 423-425
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Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry, 1875–1914. By Dyan Colclough . Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; pp. xiv + 227, 15 illustrations. $95 cloth, $69.99 e-book.
Peter Bailey
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16 January 2018, pp. 113-115
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A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. By Ellen R. Welch. Haney Foundation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; pp. 312, 10 illustrations. $75 cloth, $75 e-book.
Lauren Clay
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27 July 2018, pp. 425-427
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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body. By Evelyn Tribble. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017; pp. ix + 227, 10 illustrations. $102 cloth, $80.99 e-book.
Adam Hembree
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25 April 2018, pp. 286-288
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Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900. By Richard Schoch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016; pp. xii + 393, 28 illustrations. $120 cloth, $96 e-book.
Lisa A. Freeman
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27 July 2018, pp. 427-429
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Antitheatricality and the Body Public. By Lisa A. Freeman. Haney Foundation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; pp. 376, 24 illustrations. $55 cloth, $55 e-book.
Matthew J. Kinservik
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25 April 2018, pp. 288-290
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Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. By Nancy Yunhwa Rao . Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017; pp. xvi + 416, 64 illustrations. $95 cloth, $29.95 paperback, $26.96 e-book.
Krystyn R. Moon
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16 January 2018, pp. 115-117
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Hideous Characters & Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage. By Heather S. Nathans. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017; pp. 296, 8 illustrations. $70 cloth, $54.95 e-book.
Debra Caplan
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27 July 2018, pp. 429-431
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Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole. By Joel Schechter. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2016; pp. 276, 15 illustrations. $85 cloth, $34 paper.
Matthew McMahan
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25 April 2018, pp. 290-292
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Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s. Theater in the Americas. By Chrystyna Dail . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016; pp. xiii + 194, 9 illustrations. $40 paper, $40 e-book.
Lee Papa
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16 January 2018, pp. 117-118
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Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York. By Hillary Miller . Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016; pp. ix + 274. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.
Julia L. Foulkes
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16 January 2018, pp. 119-120
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Tragedy's Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800. By Erika Fischer-Lichte. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. 480, 49 illustrations. $115 cloth, $114.99 e-book.
Phillip Zapkin
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25 April 2018, pp. 292-294
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The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness. By Michael Chemers. New York: Routledge, 2017; pp. 186, 9 illustrations. $150 cloth, $39.95 paper.
Beth Kattelman
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27 July 2018, pp. 431-433
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The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde. By Dassia N. Posner. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016; $99.95 cloth, $39.95 paper, $39.95 e-book.
Maria Ignatieva
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25 April 2018, pp. 294-296
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Volume 59 - May 2018

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. By Katherine Steele Brokaw . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2016; pp. xviii + 296. $65 cloth, $65 e-book.

Volksbühne Special Section

B6112—Art after All: The Alleged Occupation of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theater and Performance. By Robert Henke . Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015; pp. xiii + 198, 11 illustrations. $55 paper, $55 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Medieval Theatre Performance: Actors, Dancers, Automata, and Their Audiences. Edited by Philip Butterworth and Katie Normington. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017; pp. xiv + 282, 18 illustrations. $99 cloth, $99 e-book.

Volksbühne Special Section

“A Total Kindergarten”: A Conversation about Chris Dercon's Volksbühne

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History. By Paul Menzer . London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015; pp. xix + 253, 10 illustrations. $88 cloth, $29.95 paper, $23.99 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Shakespeare's Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space at the Globe and the Blackfriars, 1599–1613. By Sarah Dustagheer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017; pp. x + 226, 10 illustrations. $99.99 cloth, $80 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Child Labor in the British Victorian Entertainment Industry, 1875–1914. By Dyan Colclough . Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016; pp. xiv + 227, 15 illustrations. $95 cloth, $69.99 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. By Ellen R. Welch. Haney Foundation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; pp. 312, 10 illustrations. $75 cloth, $75 e-book.

Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body. By Evelyn Tribble. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017; pp. ix + 227, 10 illustrations. $102 cloth, $80.99 e-book.

Writing the History of the British Stage, 1660–1900. By Richard Schoch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016; pp. xii + 393, 28 illustrations. $120 cloth, $96 e-book.

Antitheatricality and the Body Public. By Lisa A. Freeman. Haney Foundation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017; pp. 376, 24 illustrations. $55 cloth, $55 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. By Nancy Yunhwa Rao . Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017; pp. xvi + 416, 64 illustrations. $95 cloth, $29.95 paperback, $26.96 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Hideous Characters & Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage. By Heather S. Nathans. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017; pp. 296, 8 illustrations. $70 cloth, $54.95 e-book.

Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole. By Joel Schechter. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2016; pp. 276, 15 illustrations. $85 cloth, $34 paper.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s. Theater in the Americas. By Chrystyna Dail . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016; pp. xiii + 194, 9 illustrations. $40 paper, $40 e-book.

Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York. By Hillary Miller . Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016; pp. ix + 274. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Tragedy's Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800. By Erika Fischer-Lichte. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp. 480, 49 illustrations. $115 cloth, $114.99 e-book.

The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness. By Michael Chemers. New York: Routledge, 2017; pp. 186, 9 illustrations. $150 cloth, $39.95 paper.

The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde. By Dassia N. Posner. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016; $99.95 cloth, $39.95 paper, $39.95 e-book.

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Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

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Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Volksbühne Special Section

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Jennie G. Youssef

Book Reviews: Edited by Erika T. Lin, with Nick Benacerraf and Taylor C. Culbert