Tag: John Clum
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Book Excerpt: “Awkward Stages” by John Clum and Sean Metzger, eds.
While gay teenagers have been central characters in dozens of independent American films, they have seldom appeared on stage until recently. The plays in this volume, written by men (some of whom are the most celebrated playwrights) who were in their late twenties and early thirties, affirm adolescents as subjects active in same-sex relationships. Sexual…
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Book Excerpt: “Terrence McNally and Fifty Years of American Gay Drama”
For the past fifty years, Terrence McNally has been one of America’s major dramatists and the most prolific playwright about gay life in New York City. Terrence McNally and Fifty Years of American Gay Drama is the first book-length study to the broad, distinguished history of gay theatre in America during his career. In this…
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5 Essential Book for Performing Arts Studies
Here are five books that delve into feminism, gay rights, pedagogy, HIV/AIDS activism, and more while breaking new ground in performing arts studies (e.g., including previously unpublished plays, contextualizing the work of an acclaimed playwright in the history of gay American theater, and comprehensively detailing how women playwrights disrupted and created different kinds of femininity…
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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…
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Author Interview with Christopher Lupke
Christopher Lupke’s latest book, The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien, will be released next week at the 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Seattle. Professor Lupke is one of the few who has visited the set of Hou’s latest film, The Assassin (2015) and includes a discussion of it in his book.…
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#WeNeedDiverseBooks: Awkward Stages: Plays About Growing Up Gay
Awkward Stages: Plays About Growing Up Gay edited by John Clum (Duke University) and Sean Metzger includes plays by top North American contemporary playwrights: EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM by A. Rey Pamatmat SISSY by Ricardo Abreu Bracho SLIPPING by Daniel Talbott AGOKWE by Waawaate Fobister FROM WHITE PLAINS by Michael Perlman, in collaboration…
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Interview with Lynne Greeley on Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre (1910s to 2010s)
The following is an interview with Dr. Lynne Greeley on her book, Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre (1910s to 2010s), which is currently on display at the ATHE conference in Montreal. You can also browse the book here. Q: What led you to write this book? I decided to write Fearless Femininity by Women…