The handbook for the performing arts administrator addresses many administrative problems of the touring performing arts: (1) planning (programming, residency, and a directory of agency/management exhibitors); (2) contracts and contract negotiation; (3) publicity and promotion; (4) tickets; (5) funding; (6) facilities management; and (7)…

The titles of more than 3,000 theses and dissertations appearing between 1973 and 1978 were collected for this bibliography on speech communication and the theatre arts. They are presented within major classifications for the two main subject areas. Speech communication entries are classified as education, forensics, interpersonal communication,…

This bibliography is intended to (1) encourage research in contemporary black American drama, which between 1955 and 1970 played an important part in American theatre activity; (2) facilitate comparative examinations into the differences and similarities between black drama and drama of other American minority groups; and (3) serve as a…

This play-choosing guide is designed to help amateur theatrical companies in matching the casting, staging, costuming, and financial resources at their disposal with the corresponding requirements of about a hundred full-length plays. The plays have been divided into three categories: farces and comedies, drama, and thrillers and mysteries, and…

This annotated bibliography is an annual volume devoted to maintaining a record of graduate work in speech communication, providing abstracts of doctoral dissertations, and making subject area bibliographies available. The contents of this volume include "Studies in Mass Communication: A Selected Bibliography, 1973" by Roland C. Johnson…

The selections cited in this bibliography provide resources on black theater for the teacher and researcher, for those first entering the professions, and for students in search of research topics. Section one lists other relevant bibliographies, among them, an annotated guide to reference books on the black American experience, a selection of…

More than 800 publications released from 1911 through 1975 dealing with the oral interpretation of literature are listed in this index. The publications are divided into four major groups: books, collected essays, articles, and theses and dissertations. Within each grouping, items are listed in chronological order according to publication date. A…

This illustrated booklet describes aspects of a college Spanish course in which students play an active role in learning and using the language. Methods and materials take account of real-life situations and situations significant to young people. The learning of Spanish through "fine arts" is discussed, that is, learning the language by using the…