Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we visit a new scholarly publication from SIU Press for the field of theater. If you ever took stagecraft, stage design, play-writing or play analysis classes in college, it’s very likely that you’ve been assigned a textbook published by SIU Press.
Today we introduce the new SIU Press book American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism by David Bisaha. This book, a combination of theater history and labor history, describes the professionalization of American scenic design, beginning in the early twentieth century.