Humana Festival 2000

Author : Jeffrey Ullom
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809387083

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The Humana Festival by Jeffrey Ullom Pdf

Far from the glittering lights of Broadway, in a city known more for its horse racing than its artistic endeavors, an annual festival in Louisville, Kentucky, has transformed the landscape of the American theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville—the Tony Award–winning state theater of Kentucky—in 1976 successfully created what became the nation's most respected new-play festival, the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville examines the success of the festival and theater’s Pulitzer Prize–winning productions that for decades have reflected new-play trends in regional theaters and on Broadway—the result of the calculated decisions, dogged determination, and good luck of its producing director, Jon Jory. The volume details how Actors Theatre of Louisville was established, why the Humana Festival became successful in a short time, and how the event’s success has been maintained by the Louisville venue that has drawn theater critics from around the world for more than thirty years. Author Jeffrey Ullom charts the theater’s early struggles to survive, the battles between troupe leaders, and the desperate measures to secure financial support from the Louisville community. He examines how Jory established and expanded the festival to garner extraordinary local support, attract international attention, and entice preeminent American playwrights to premier their works in the Kentucky city. In The Humana Festival, Ullom provides a broad view of new-play development within artistic, administrative, and financial contexts. He analyzes the relationship between Broadway and regional theaters, outlining how the Humana Festival has changed the process of new-play development and even Broadway’s approach to discovering new work, and also highlights the struggles facing regional theaters across the country as they strive to balance artistic ingenuity and economic viability. Offering a rare look at the annual event, The Humana Festival provides the first insider’s view of the extraordinary efforts that produced the nation’s most successful new-play festival.

Author : Tanya Palmer,Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1575253852

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Humana Festival 2004 by Tanya Palmer,Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel Pdf

The Humana Festival of New American Plays is the center of the nation's playwriting universe (The Miami Herald). It is an event whose impact has enlivened and enriched stages in the United States and around the world (The Irish Times). This year's plays have been selected from more than 500 script submissions for production and these plays feature some of the most talented and adventurous playwrights writing for the American stage today. Includes After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo, The Ruby Sunrise by Rinne Groff, Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land by Kristen Greenridge, Kid-Simple, a radio play in the flesh by Jordan Harrison, At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka, and Tallgrass Gothic by Melanie Marnich.

Author : Michael Bigelow Dixon,Amy Wegener
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0739413198

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Humana Festival 2000 by Michael Bigelow Dixon,Amy Wegener Pdf

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2466 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9781438140766

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Encyclopedia of American Drama by Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig Pdf

Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438129662

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The Facts on File Companion to American Drama by Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig Pdf

Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Author : Amy Wegener,Jenni Page-White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538136355

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Humana Festival 2018 by Amy Wegener,Jenni Page-White Pdf

The Humana Festival of New American Plays has been a leading home for extraordinary playwrights and their imaginations for more than four decades, making Actors Theatre of Louisville one of the nation’s preeminent powerhouses for new play development. For six weeks every spring, Louisville exerts a gravitational pull on producers and theatre lovers from around the country, who travel from far and wide for the adventure of seeing a diverse slate of fully-produced new plays. Many Humana Festival plays have gone on to garner awards and subsequent productions, making a sustained impact on the international dramatic repertoire. Humana Festival 2018: The Complete Plays brings together all six scripts from the 42nd annual cycle of world premieres, featuring a remarkable array of work by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre. This anthology makes the Humana Festival plays available to an even wider audience, allowing readers to experience the collision of perspectives, styles and stories that makes the festival such an invigorating celebration of the art form. This compilation features the full-length plays Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, Evocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultz, we, the invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton, Marginal Loss by Deborah Stein, and God Said This by Leah Nanako Winkler, as well as You Across from Me, a collaboratively-written play by four writers—Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha, Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt.

Author : Michael Bigelow Dixon,Andrew Carter Crocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American drama
ISBN : IND:30000079552687

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Humana Festival of New American Plays by Michael Bigelow Dixon,Andrew Carter Crocker Pdf

Author : Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel,Julie Felise Dubiner
Publisher : Playscripts, Inc.
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780970904614

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Humana Festival 2006 by Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel,Julie Felise Dubiner Pdf

A collection of all ten scripts from the 2006 Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Author : Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel,Julie Felise Dubiner
Publisher : Playscripts, Inc.
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780970904638

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Humana Festival 2007 by Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel,Julie Felise Dubiner Pdf

This collection includes every play performed at the 2007 Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Author : Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350024755

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009 by Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal Pdf

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

Author : Wade Hall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813128993

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The Kentucky Anthology by Wade Hall Pdf

Long before the official establishment of the Commonwealth, intrepid pioneers ventured west of the Allegheny Mountains into an expansive, alluring wilderness that they began to call Kentucky. After blazing trails, clearing plots, and surviving innumerable challenges, a few adventurers found time to pen celebratory tributes to their new homeland. In the two centuries that followed, many of the world’s finest writers, both native Kentuckians and visitors, have paid homage to the Bluegrass State with the written word. In The Kentucky Anthology, acclaimed author and literary historian Wade Hall has assembled an unprecedented and comprehensive compilation of writings pertaining to Kentucky and its land, people, and culture. Hall’s introductions to each author frame both popular and lesser-known selections in a historical context. He examines the major cultural and political developments in the history of the Commonwealth, finding both parallels and marked distinctions between Kentucky and the rest of the United States. While honoring the heritage of Kentucky in all its glory, Hall does not blithely turn away from the state’s most troubling episodes and institutions such as racism, slavery, and war. Hall also builds the argument, bolstered by the strength and significance of the collected writings, that Kentucky’s best writers compare favorably with the finest in the world. Many of the authors presented here remain universally renowned and beloved, while others have faded into the tides of time, waiting for rediscovery. Together, they guide the reader on a literary tour of Kentucky, from the mines to the rivers and from the deepest hollows to the highest peaks. The Kentucky Anthology traces the interests and aspirations, the achievements and failures and the comedies and tragedies that have filled the lives of generations of Kentuckians. These diaries, letters, speeches, essays, poems, and stories bring history brilliantly to life. Jesse Stuart once wrote, “If these United States can be called a body, Kentucky can be called its heart.” The Kentucky Anthology captures the rhythm and spirit of that heart in the words of its most remarkable chroniclers.

Author : Todd London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0739434977

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New Dramatists, 2001 by Todd London Pdf

Author : Lawrence Harbison
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 157525591X

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New Playwrights by Lawrence Harbison Pdf

The latest in Smith and Kraus' highly-acclaimed series, this comprehensive anthology is a rich and varied collection of the work of some of America's most promising new playwrights. Contains:BFF by Anna Ziegler. An Off Broadway success about two teenaged girls. One has a tragic end, the other keeps her memory alive by becoming her.DARK PLAY OR STORIES FOR BOYS by Carlos Murillo. A smash at Louisville's Humana Festival, this provocative play focuses on a teenaged computer whiz who invents an alter ego in order to lure another boy into his fantasy world.INTELLECTUALS by Scott Sickles. This hilarious comedy is about a psychologist who decides to take a ?sabbatical? from her marriage to pursue her untapped potential as a lesbian.LIVING ROOM IN AFRICA by Bathsheba Doran. This intense drama is about a couple who have moved to a small village in Africa to set up a museum there with money donated from the west, only to learn that they are living in an area devasted by AIDS.NO CHILD by Nilaja Sun. This acclaimed long-running Off Broadway hit subsequently toured all over the U.S. and abroad. In it, Ms. Sun played a beleaguered substitute teacher in the inner city high school from hell, hired to work with this problem school's most incorrigible students to present a play. She played all the roles, from herself to students to parents to other teachers to the principal to a veteran, much-beloved janitor in this insightful look at life in a hellish high school.THE PAIN AND THE ITCH by Bruce Norris. This terrific dark comedy achieved Off Broadway acclaim and went on the London, where it was equally sensationally received. It's a hilarious social satire about liberal hypocrisy, focusing on an American family who want it all: moral superiority and a wide-screen TV.VICTORIA MARTIN: MATH TEAM QUEEN by Kathryn Walat. Victoria wants to be Most Popular, but she also wants to be known for her brains. She becomes the first girl ever on her high school's math team - which scrambles the team's all-male dynamic.For over thirty years Lawrence Harbison was in charge of new play acquisition for Samuel French, Inc., during which time he was responsible for the first publication of such luminaries as Jane Martin, Don Nigro, Tina Howe, Theresa Rebeck, Jose Rivera, William Mastrosimone, Charles Fuller and Ken Ludwig, among many others; and the acquisition of musicals such as SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES, A?MY NAME IS ALICE and THREE GUYS NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN. He has for many years written a weekly column on his adventures in the theatre for two Manhattan Newspapers, the Chelsea Clinton News and The Westsider. He is a member of the NYC press corps and is an Outer Critics Circle Member. He has served many times over the years as a judge and commentator for various national play contests and lectures regularly at colleges and universities.

Author : Edith Hall,Fiona Macintosh,Amanda Wrigley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191555411

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Dionysus Since 69 by Edith Hall,Fiona Macintosh,Amanda Wrigley Pdf

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization.

Author : John Henry Ottemiller,Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810877207

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Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections by John Henry Ottemiller,Denise L. Montgomery Pdf

The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.