Publisher and Editor of the Obie Award-winning PAJ Publications/PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
New Title: The Theatre of Drawing
The Theatre of Drawing is a dazzling selection of drawings and writings by 42 American artists from the 1960s to the present, working in theatre, dance, music, and performance. The first book to present such an expansive theatrical perspective, it includes more than 160 color images.
The individual artists’ portfolios offer a remarkably intimate look into the creative process that transforms drawing into the art of performance. Among the artists featured in the volume are Ann Hamilton, Robert Wilson, Jay Scheib, Gyun Hur, Julie Mehretu, Judith Malina, Annie-B Parson, Lucinda Childs, Mina Nishimura, Madeline Hollander, Raven Chacon, Peter Schumann, and Joan Jonas.
The Theatre of Drawing; A Conversation with Editors Bonnie Marranca & Daniel Sack
A celebration of the release of The Theatre of Drawing, interview with Frank Hentschker featuring editors and select artist contributors, Segal Center, November 2026.
Celebrating The Final Issue of PAJ (1976-2024)
Celebrating PAJ, interview with Frank Hentschker, Segal Center, December 2024.
Recent Books by Bonnie Marranca
Alchemies of Theater: Plays, Scores, Writings by Dick Higgins, 2024
Alchemies of Theater brings together a broad selection of Higgins’s writings and theater-related work, much of it unpublished or long out-of-print. As Bonnie Marranca demonstrates in several essays in the volume, Dick Higgins deconstructed the drama long before it became a project of theater; he undercut the traditional roles of author and director and created what is now considered “devised” theater; he pioneered the use of media in theater, writing the first electronic opera, and was a precursor in deconstruction and post-dramatic avant-garde traditions.
Dick Higgins (1938-1998) was a visual artist, publisher, poet, composer, filmmaker, playwright. A founder of Fluxus, he wrote many books as well as the influential “Intermedia” manifesto.
Published by University of Michigan Press
Timelines: writings and conversations, 2021
Timelines turns to subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, cultural history, landscape and writing, as well issues of beauty, emotion, and the spiritual in art. Bonnie Marranca extends her longtime interests in theatre, visual arts, media, dance, and drama to the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Meredith Monk, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Higgins, Etel Adnan, and others in the thirty-four pieces in the volume from the last dozen years. A chapter entitled "Performance and Drawing" focuses on this special art practice. “Writing in the Landscape” explores new text and image approaches to short-form critical writing. There are also personal reflections on the recent loss of Carolee Schneemann, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sam Shepard.