Presents a collection by leading theater performers, practitioners, critics, and passionate spectators. This book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past years.
Focuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa's self-image and its lived realities. The book argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa's post-apartheid identity are negotiated.
Focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx 'locas' and the various forms of violence that queer individuals in Puerto Rico and the US are subjected to.
Presents a collection by leading theater performers, practitioners, critics, and passionate spectators. This book offers a backstage pass to the personal and creative lives of some of the most important and influential theater artists of the past years.
Employs theories of postcolonial cultural studies to examine the notion of mestizaje - the mixing of races, and specifically indigenous people with European colonizers - and how this phenomenon manifests itself in three geographically diverse spaces: the US, Latin America, and the Philippines.
An eclectic collection of essays on theater and its decline as highbrow culture, under the influence of theme parks and blockbuster movies
The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent
The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism
The evocative performances of Peggy Shaw, cross-dressed and class-conscious performance artist
The life and times of pioneering director Margaret Webster, this is the first biography of a stage and opera director whose career challenged both stage tradition and mainstream attitudes towards professional women.
20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture--from the inside
Subverting assumptions that American musical theatre is steeped in nostalgia, cheap sentiment, misogyny, and homophobia, this book shows how musicals of the 1950s and early 1960s celebrated strong women characters who defied the era's gender expectations.
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