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  • The Elks Opera House

    by Parker Anderson, Elisabeth Ruffner ...
    Series series Images of America
    For over 100 years, the Elks Opera House has been a landmark of the cultural scene in Prescott, Arizona, and the western United States. In 1904, the people of Prescott raised $15,000 toward a performance hall to be included in the Elks Building. The original structure featured opera boxes that were later removed to adapt to the demands of motion pictures, and the entire proscenium arch was covered ... Read more

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  • Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

    A Novel

    by Sanora Babb ...
    Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Staging Philosophy

    Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy

    Edited by David Krasner, David Z. Saltz ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Site-Specific Art

    Performance, Place and Documentation

    by Nick Kaye ...
    Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary practice around the world.The book is divided into individual analyses of the themes of space, materials, site, and frames. These are ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ladies of the Canyons

    A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

    by Lesley Poling-Kempes ...
    Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world.Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Historic Dallas Theatres

    by D. Troy Sherrod ...
    Series series Images of America
    Dallas was the show business capital of Texas and much of the South throughout the 20th century. More than 100 theatres served the city�s neighborhoods, and Elm Street once boasted more than 15 vaudeville and movie theatres�second in number to Broadway. The quality of the show houses in Dallas were surpassed by few cities and all major, and most minor, Hollywood studios maintained Dallas offices. ... Read more

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  • Stages of Struggle and Celebration

    A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas

    by Sandra M. Mayo, Elvin Holt ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichés of horses, cattle, and bravado. Drawing on troves of archival materials from numerous statewide sources, Stages of Struggle and Celebration captures the important ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre

    The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder” Melodramas

    by Thomas A. Bogar ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski

    by Catharine Christof ...
    This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the interaction between the two fields in his artistic output.The central argument of the text is that ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Texas Suffragist

    Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum

    by Janet G. Humphrey ...
    Series series Ellen C. Temple Classics in the Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    A leader in the successful fight for woman suffrage in Texas, Jane Yelvington McCallum (1878–1957) left an absorbing written record of an exceptionally productive life. McCallum was a wife, mother, and clubwoman; unlike most, she was also a suffrage leader, lobbyist, journalist, publicist, Democratic Party worker, and secretary of state.A Texas Suffragist brings to print two of Jane McCallum’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Written in Blood Vol. 2

    The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen, 1910-1928

    by Richard F. Selcer, Kevin S. Foster ...
    In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worths Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another bakers dozen line-of-duty deaths that occurred between 1910 and 1928. Not counting the two officers who died of natural causes, these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Its History, Legends, and Lore

    by David Dary ...
    “The famous trail of romantic western lore was established in about 1610 by Spanish settlers of Mexico who had explored western and southern regions of North America long before the French and English arrived. Stretching 900 miles from its origin in Santa Fe through present-day Colorado and Kansas, the trail, originally a combination of many old paths worn down by buffalo, ends in Franklin, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD