By combining literary and dramatic narrative with eye-witness accounts of Sasquatch encounters culled from the internet, The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. reinvents as many versions of the Frankenstein author Mary Shelley as there are definitions of the word "Gothic." In this work, a string of financial, maternal, and familial misfortunes causes Shelley--referred to in this production as Maery S.--to spawn a monstrous creative expression, which takes on its own life and violent history. Maery cannot help but fall in love with her Monster, only to see it "collected" and imprisoned by charitable funding at a mandatory artists' residency.

A graphic adaptation by Lana Lesley of the stage adaptation by Rude Mechs of the book by Greil Marcus.

Sibyl Kempson's Let Us Know Praise Susan Sontag is an irrational musical contemplation of collision of art and journalism.

This volume documents one of the treasures of Big Dance Theater's original performances, supplemented by a series of interviews.

A poet's essay, an essay for a room, for the mouth, the hand, the ear.

The Javier Plays collects three plays by Chicago-based playwright Carlos Murillo.

An exciting new volume based on Henry Siddons' illustrated guidebook for actors, originally published in 1807. The book includes 36 illustrations of contemporary actors reinterpreting gestures from the original book and an introductory essay by James Stanley that explores the history of acting and acting training, placing the book project in a larger historical context.