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Library Guide for Theatre & Dance
Resources
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Students and faculty online and at regional centers may request books by mail through CU Library Exchange.
So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre: A Guide for Performers by 
Broadway Goes to War: American Theater during World War II by 
Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia by 
The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna by 
On Site: Methods for Site-specific Performance Creation by 
Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor by 
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century by 
August Wilson: A Life by 
The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America by 
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by New E-Books
New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting by eBook Collection by EBSCOhost
Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.
Recent Titles in Print
Find these books and many others in the reference and circulating collections of Montgomery Library:
| DANCE | ||
| GV 1588 .D35 2020 | Dance Theory: Source Readings from Two Millennia of Western Dance | |
| GV 1689 .C67 2020 | Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia | |
| GV 1784 .R66 2022 | Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century | |
| GV 1785 .A1 V35 2002 | Brotherhood Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers | |
| GV 1785 .H267 H35 2019 | Making Dances that Matter | |
| GV 1787.O84 2021 | The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet | |
| GV 1788 .B37 2021 | The Pointe Book: Shoes, Training, Technique: 4th Edition | |
| MUSIC | ||
| ML 410 .B566 R37 2021 | Berstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets | |
| ML 1723.8 .V6 B18 2021 | The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna | |
| MT 956 .F59 2022 | So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre: A Guide for Performers | |
| DRAMA | ||
| LB 1027 .F53 2020 | All the Classroom's a Stage: Applying Theater Principles to Teaching Techniques | |
| PN 1590 .S6 P4875 2019 | Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage | |
| PN 1661 .C38 2021 | The Art of Dramaturgy | |
| PN 1992.8 .H54 L38 2022 | Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century | |
| PN 1992.8 .R43 N87 2024 | Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV | |
| PN 1995.9 .A77 Y36 2023 | The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America | |
| PN 1995.9 .A8 C88 2021 | Movies On Our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement | |
| PN 1995.9 .E96 W26 2020 | Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia | |
| PN 1995.9 .P7 B38 2023 | Creative Producing: A Pitch-to-Picture Guide to Movie Development | |
| PN 1996 .P467 2022 | Scene Writing: The Missing Manual for Screenwriters | |
| PN 2037 .K76 2019 | The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation | |
| PN 2041 .W37 M38 2021 | Broadway Goes to War: American Theater during World War II | |
| PN 2053 .E87 2021 | Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor | |
| PN 2053 .S93 2019 | A Theory of Dramaturgy | |
| PN 2061 .R745 2019 | Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique | |
| PN 2071 .M6 S56 2020 | The Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor | |
| PN 2091 .S8 L275 2022 | Standby: An Approach to Theatrical Design | |
| PN 2091 .S8 S618 2019 | Theory for Theatre Studies: Space | |
| PN 2219 .O8 K66 2022 | On Site: Methods for Site-specific Performance Creation | |
| PN 2270 .A35 F67 2020 | Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance | |
| PN 2287 .B4845 V35 2019 | Ray Bolger | |
| AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| PS 3573 .I45677 Z675 2023 | August Wilson: A Life | |
| PS 3604 .R873 F35 2019 | Fairview: A Play [2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama] | |
| TECHNOLOGY | ||
| TT 520 .B54 2020 | Historical Pattern Archive: Women's Clothing 1837-1969 | |
| HISTORY | ||
| DG 445 .C378 2021 | The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 |
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Library of Congress Classification Guide for the Theater and Dance
| GV 1580-1799.4 | Dancing | |
| MT 955-956 | Musical theater | |
| MT 960 | Music in the theater | |
| PN 1530 | The monologue | |
| PN 1551 | The dialogue | |
| PN 1560-1590 | The performing arts. Show business | |
| PN 1585-1589 | Centers for the performing arts | |
| PN 1600-3307 | Drama | |
| PN 1635-1650 | Relation to, and treatment of special subjects | |
| PN 1660-1693 | Technique of dramatic composition | |
| PN 1720-1861 | History | |
| PN 1865-1988 | Special types | |
| PN 2000-3307 | Dramatic representation. The theater | |
| PN 2061-2071 | Art of acting | |
| PN 2085-2091 | The stage and accessories | |
| PN 2131-2193 | By period | |
| PN 2131-2145 | Ancient | |
| PN 2152-2160 | Medieval | |
| PN 2171-2179 | Renaissance | |
| PN 2181-2193 | Modern | |
| PN 2219.3-3030 | Special regions or countries | |
| PN 3035 | The Jewish theater | |
| PN 3151-3171 | Amateur theater | |
| PN 3175-3191 | College and school theatricals | |
| PN 3203-3299 | Tableaux pageants, "Happenings," etc. |
