CAREER RESOURCES – MUST-READ BIBLIOGRAPHY
DRAMATURGY
Arfara, Katia. “Aspects of a New Dramaturgy of the Spectator.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 112-118.
Barranger, Milly S. Theatre: A Way of Seeing. Fourth edition. New York: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1995.
Barba, Eugenio. On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House, Routledge, 2009.
Barton, Bruce. “Stop Looking at Your Feet.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp.13-25.
Basso, Beatrice. “Italian Dramaturg in a Translation Process.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 161-163.
Biet, Christian. “Towards a Dramaturgy of Appearance.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 102-109.
Bly, Mark. “Pressing an Ear Against a hive or New Play Explorations in the Twenty-First Century.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 19-23.
Bonin-Rodriguez, Paul. “Between One and Many: Dramaturgical Praxisat Jump-Start Performance, Co.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 87-91.
Brown, Lenora Inez. “Night of the Living Dramaturg.” American Theatre 18.8 (Oct. 2001): 20.
– – -. “You Can’t Tell a Dramaturg by Her Title.” American Theatre 18.1 (Jan. 2001): 22-25.
Brown, Lenora Inez. The Art of Active Dramaturgy. Focus Publishing, 2011.
Cardullo, Bert. What is Dramaturgy? N.p.: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.
Chemers, Michael Mark. Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
Devin, Lee. “Spectacle and Music.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 159-160.
Dramatist Guild Resource Directory, Focus Publishing, 2011.
Eckersall, Peter and Fujii Shintaro, Takayama Akira, Hayashi Tatsuki. “On the Dramaturgical Field in Port B’s Tokyo ‘Tour Performances’.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 28-43.
Eggert, Andrew. “The Role of Dramaturg in the Creation of New Works.” Opera America. Spring 2008: 24-27.
Engelman, Liz, and Michael Bigelow Dixon. “What Makes a Turg Tick: Two Dramaturgs Discuss What They Like About Their Profession and Why They Do It.” Theatre Topics 13-.1 (Mar. 2003): 93-99.
Etchells, Tim. “Doing Time.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 71-80.
“Execute a dramaturg’s Idea.” American Theatre 21.1 (Jan. 2004): 19.
Fuchs, Elinor. “EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play.” Theatre 34. 2 (Summer 2004): 5-9.
Gandrow, Kristen. “Dramaturgy: Quirky and Productive.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 79-80.
Hardison Londre, Felicia. Words at Play: Creative Writing and Dramaturgy. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Haring-Smith, Tori. “Dramaturging Non-Realism: Creating a New Vocabulary.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 45-54.
Hartley, Andrew James. The Shakespearean Dramaturg: ATheoretical and Practical Guide. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Harvey, Alec. “Is There a Dramaturg in the House?” American Theatre 21.9 (Nov. 2004): 74-79.
Hagebolling, Heide. Interactive Dramaturgies. Ed. N.p.: Springer, 2004.
Irelan, Scott R., Fletcher, Anne, Dubiner, Julie Felise. Process of Dramaturgy. Focus Publishing / R. Pullins Co., 2009.
Jonas, Susan S., Geoffrey S. Proehl, and Michael Lupo. Dramaturgy in American Theatre: A Source Book. N.p.: Wadsworth Publishing, 1996.
Kindelan, Nancy. Shadows of Realism: Dramaturgy and the Theories and Practices of Modernism. Praeger Paperback, 1996.
Kosidowski, Paul. “Thinking Through the Audience.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 83-86.
Kunst, Bojana. “The Economy of Proximity.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 81-88.
Lehmann, Hans-Thies. “Dramaturgy on Shifting Grounds.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 3-6.
Lenhardt, Martina. “Open Dramaturgies.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 126-128.
Londre, Felicia Hardison. Words at Play: Creative Writing and Dramaturgy (Theatre in the Americas). N.p.: Southern Illinois Press, 2005.
Luckhurst, Mary. Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lynn, Kirk, and Shawn Sides. “Collective Dramaturgy: A Co-consideration of the Dramaturgical role in collaborative Creation.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 111-115.
Magruder, James. “A Place at the Table.” American Theatre 18.1 (Jan. 2001): 24-25.
Margraff, Ruth. “the Stadium and Theatrein Punctum at the Beloves & Life-like Torso of Antinoos.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 67-99.
Mazer, Cary. “Dramaturgy in the Classroom: Teaching Undergrad Students Not to be Students.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 135-141.
Martin, Carol. Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage. Palgrave McMillan, 2010.
McCabe, Terry. Mis-Directing the Play: An Argument Against Contemporary Theatre. N.p.: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Monaghan, Megan. “Economics.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 81.
Mulcahy, Lisa. “The Diversity of Dramaturgy: Three Dramaturgs, Three Different Career Tracks.” Stage Directions, April 2008, Special Section: Literary Rights, Licensing & Mgmt.
Orr, Shelley. “Teaching Play Analysis: How a Key Dramaturgical Skill Can Foster Critical Approaches.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 153-158.
Palmer, Tanya. “Risky Business.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 63-67.
Patterson, Michael. Oxford Dictionary of Plays – contains list of 1000 central to theatre history and their synopses.
“Performance Research: On Dramaturgy: Notes on Contributors.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 132-134.
Proehl, Geoffrey S. “Dramaturgy and Silence.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 25-33.
Proehl, Geoff. Toward Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey. Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008.
Radosavljevic, Dusca. “The Need to Keep Moving.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 45-51.
Rudakoff, Judith. “The Four Elements: New Models for a Subversive Dramaturgy.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 143-152.
Shteir, Rachel. “The Dramaturg’s Progress.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 165-168.
Smith, Gay. “Histories.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 101.
Smith, Phil. “Burning the Box Office.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 90-100.
Stalpaert, Christel. “A Dramaturgy of the Body.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 121-125.
Thomson, Lynn M. “Teaching and Rehearsing Collaboration.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 117-128.
– – -. “Where We are Now: A Report on Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.” American Theatre 18.1 (Jan. 2001): 26-27.
Turner, Cathy, and Synne Behrndt. Dramaturgy and Performance (Theatre and Performance Practices). N.p.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Valentini, Valentina. “On the Dramaturgical Aspects of Bill Viola’s Multi-Media Installations.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 54-64.
Van Kerkhoven, Marianne. “European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century.” Performance Research, Vol. 14 No. 3 (Sept. 2009) pp. 7-11.
Volansky, Michael. “Imagining LMDA: Past, Present, and Future.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 169-171.
Wilson, John Kendall. “A Team Approach to Dramaturgy at Cornish College of the Arts.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 129-133.
Wolff, Tamsen. “Women’s Work: Gender and Dramaturgy.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 103-104.
Zelenak, Michael X. “Why We Don’t Need Directors: A Dramaturgical/Historical Manifesto.” Theatre Topics 13.1 (Mar. 2003): 105-109.
CRITICAL THEORY
Burke, Kenneth. “Terminist Screens.” Language as Symbolic Actions: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley, U. of California Press, 1966.
Buchanan, Ian. A Dictionary of Critical Theory. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Carlson, Marvin. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present. Cornell University Press, 1993.
Culler, Jonathan. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 1998.
Malpas, Simon. The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory. Routledge, 2006.
Pavis, Patrice. Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture. Trans. Loren Kruger. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Rabkin, Gerald. “Waiting for Foucault: New Theatre Theory.” Performing Arts Journal, 14.3 (1992): 90-101.
Reinelt, Janelle G. and Joseph R. Roach, eds. Critical Theory and Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
Tyseon, Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. Routledge, 2006.
POSTMODERNISM
Boudrillard, Jean. Simulations. Trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983.
Blau, Herbert. To All Appearance: Ideology and Performance. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Butler, Christopher. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction. 2003.
Connot, Steven. The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism. Cambridge U. Press, 2004.
Foster, Hal, ed. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Port Townsend, Washington: Bay Press, 1983.
Fuchs, Elinor. The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Kaye, Nick. Postmodernism and Performance. Palgrave, 1994.
Kroker, Arthur and David Cook. The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Lehman, Hans-Thies. Postdramatic Theatre. Routledge, 2006.
Lyotart, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
DECONSTRUCTION
Culler, Jonathan. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism, 2007.
Derrida, Jacques. Hartman, Geoffrey, Miller, Hillis, and Bloom, Harold. Deconstruction and Criticism, 2004.
— The Ear of the Other. Trans. Avital Ronell and Peggy Kamuf. Ed. Christie MacDonald. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
—. Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Powell, Jim. Deconstruction for Beginners, 2008.
Norris, Christopher. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. London: Methuen, 1982.
MATERIALISM
Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy. Trans. Bren Brewster. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971.
Balibar, Etienne and Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. London: Verso Press, 1971.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arent. New York: Schocken Books, 1979.
Eagelton, Terry. Criticism and Ideology. London: Verso Press, 1976.
Knowles, Ric. Reading the Material Theatre. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Williams, Raymond. Problems in Materialism and Culture. London: Verso Press, 1980.
FEMINISM
Astor, Elaine. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre. Routledge, 1994.
— Feminist Theatre Practice: A Handbook, 1999.
Burke, Carol. Noami Schor and Margaret Whitford. Engaging with Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Case, Sue-Ellen, and Elaine Astor, Feminism and Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
— Staging International Feminism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
— ed. Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1990.
De Lauretis, Teresa. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Goodman, Lizbeth. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Routledge, 1996.
Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 2000.
Phelan, Peggy. Unmarked. Routledge, 1993.
Schneider, Rebecca. Explicit Body in Performance. 1997.
QUEER THEORY
Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge, 1993.
—. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Case, Sue-Ellen. “Performing Lesbian in the Space of Technology: Part I and II.” Theatre Journal. 47.1 and 3 (1995): 1-18, 329-343.
— Feminist and Queer Performance: Critical Strategies, 2009.
Clum, John M. Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Savaran, David. Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1992.
POST-COLONIAL THEORY
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture, Routledge, 2004.
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 2001.
Chaudhuri, Una. Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Revised edition. Grove Press, 2008.
Gainor, Ellen. Imprerialism and Theatre. New York: Routledge,1995.
Gilbert Helen. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics, 1996.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakrwavorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Harvard University Press, 1999.