Category: Theatre Studies

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Terrence McNally and Fifty Years of American Gay Drama

  Congratulations to Professor John Clum (Duke University) on the glowing review of his book Terrence McNally and Fifty Years of American Gay Drama in Theatre Journal, which lauds the book as “a must read for everyone interested in American theatre and LGBT studies.” The journal praises the book further because of its “rigorous scholarship and…

  Cambria Press

  November 5, 2019

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, LGBT Studies, Theatre Studies

  American drama, John Clum, Terrence McNally, Theatre Journal

• Cambria Press Publication Review: Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre (1910s to 2010s)

  Congratulations to Professor Lynne Greeley (University of Vermont) on the outstanding review of her book Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre (1910s to 2010s) in the journal Women’s History Review. The book review praises Fearless Femininity because: Greeley has assembled a very large ‘cast’ of female artists: their ranks include the ‘first feminists’ (p.…

  Cambria Press

  January 24, 2017

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, American history, Book Review, Cambria Press, LGBT Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, Women’s Studies

  American theatre, Fearless Femininity, feminism, feminist, gender history, theatre history, Women in Theatre

• LASA 2016 Highlights – New & Noteworthy in Latin American Studies

  We are proud to launch Dr. Gabriela Fried Amilivia’s new book, State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America, at the LASA congress. This interdisciplinary study, written in a highly accessible style, will have both specialists and nonspecialists appreciating it for how it vividly brings to life the terror inflicted by the state…

  Cambria Press

  May 24, 2016

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, Cambria Press, Film Studies, Hispanic Studies, History, Latin American Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Spanish culture, Studies in Slavery, Theatre, Theatre Studies, university books

  academic publisher, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, LASA 2016, Latin American Studies

• 5 LGBT-themed Plays on Teens that are Important for Society

  A New Publication from Cambria Press Awkward Stages: Plays about Growing Up Gay edited by John Clum and Sean Metzger Having looked carefully at more than forty plays, Professors John Clum (Duke University) and Sean Metzger (UCLA) finally selected five plays for the unique perspectives they bring on gay adolescence. Why are such plays critical? Why…

  Cambria Press

  July 29, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Cambria Press, LGBT Studies, Theatre Studies

  A. Rey Pamatmat, AGOKWE, ASTR, ATHE, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Daniel Talbott, EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM, FROM WHITE PLAINS, Gay Teen, Gay Theatre, Growing up Gay, It Gets Better, John Clum, LGBT, LGBT Teen, LGBT Theatre, Michael Perlman, Ricardo Abreu Bracho, Sean Metzger, sexuality, SISSY, SLIPPING, social justice, Waawaate Fobister

• Cambria Press New Book! Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre (1910s to 2010s) by Lynne Greeley

  Excerpts from Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre (1910s to 2010s) by Lynne Greeley; this book is in the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts by John Clum (Duke University): On the performance of the feminine no longer belonging to men: “From the beginning of the twentieth century, when women were claiming the right to…

  Cambria Press

  April 3, 2015

  Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, Women’s Studies

  ASTR, ATHE, feminine, femininity, feminist, John Clum, Lynne Greeley, scholarly monograph, Theatre Studies, Women in Theatre, Women’s Studies