Recently added articles from Asian Theatre Journal:
The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... THE KOMEDIE STAMBOEL: POPULAR THEATER IN COLONIAL INDONESIA, 1891-1903. By Matthew Isaac Cohen. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 2006. 473 pp. 36 black and white illus. 4 black and white maps. Appendix of Plays and Tableaux, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Paper ...
Progressive Traditions: An Illustrated Study of Plot Repetition in Traditional Japanese Theatre.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... PROGRESSIVE TRADITIONS: AN ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF PLOT REPETITION IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE THEATRE. By Helen S. E. Parker. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xii + 189 pp., 5 black and white photos + CD-ROM. Cloth $150. Linking written text with historical source material, performance text, and ...
Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... SENSATIONAL KNOWLEDGE: EMBODYING CULTURE THROUGH JAPANESE DANCE. Tomie Hahn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 197 pp. + DVD. Paper $26.95. In Sensational Knowledge ethnomusicologist Tomie Hahn uses her thirty-plus years studying nihon buyo in Tokyo's Tachibana ...
Shakespeare in China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... SHAKESPEARE IN CHINA. By Murray J. Levith. New York: Continuum, 2004. xiv + 156 pp. Cloth $39.95. Murray Levith, Shakespearean scholar and author of Shakespeare's Italian Settings and Plays, What's in Shakespeare's Names, and Renaissance and Modern, takes on a ...
Poetics, Plays, and Performance: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre.
Mar 22, 2008; ... POETICS, PLAYS, AND PERFORMANCE: THE POLITICS OF MODERN INDIAN THEATRE. By Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006. xiv, 366 p., 11 photographs. Hardcover Rs 1,080.00 ($27.00). Vasudha Dalimia in her recent book about the modern Indian ...