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Author : Marilyn Plotkins
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059265028
A comprehensive reference guide to the history of A.R.T. programming and the theatre artists who shape its distinctive character.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810879508
From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barefoot in the Park, Our Town, The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Odd Couple. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater presents the plays and personages, movements and institutions, and cultural developments of the American stage from 1930 to 2010, a period of vast and almost continuous change. It covers the ever-changing history of the American theater with emphasis on major movements, persons, plays, and events. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American theater.
Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521434378
Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.
Author : Jessica Sternfeld,Elizabeth L. Wollman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781134851850
The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical’s evolving relationship to American culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In the past decade-and-a-half, international scholars from an ever-widening number of disciplines and specializations have been actively contributing to the interdisciplinary field of musical theater studies. Musicals have served not only to mirror the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural tenor of the times, but have helped shape and influence it, in America and across the globe: a genre that may seem, at first glance, light-hearted and escapist serves also as a bold commentary on society. Forty-four essays examine the contemporary musical as an ever-shifting product of an ever-changing culture. This volume sheds new light on the American musical as a thriving, contemporary performing arts genre, one that could have died out in the post-Tin Pan Alley era but instead has managed to remain culturally viable and influential, in part by newly embracing a series of complex contradictions. At present, the American musical is a live, localized, old-fashioned genre that has simultaneously developed into an increasingly globalized, tech-savvy, intensely mediated mass entertainment form. Similarly, as it has become increasingly international in its scope and appeal, the stage musical has also become more firmly rooted to Broadway—the idea, if not the place—and thus branded as a quintessentially American entertainment.
Author : Sarah Stanton,Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521446546
Derived from The Cambridge guide to theatre_
Author : Mark Hutchings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350011397
This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical responses over the course of nearly four centuries. Providing a uniquely detailed and up-to-date account of the play's rich stage history, it demonstrates how useful Performance Studies is to our understanding of early modern drama, and looks closely at major recent productions on both sides of the Atlantic, notably the 2014 production of the 'Jacobean' indoor space, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London. In a series of critical essays, the guide offers fresh perspectives on the characters' mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish Golden Age literature on Middelton and Rowley, and how the play has been treated on the modern stage and screen. Featuring a guide to digital resources and an annotated bibliography, this collection is a definitive guide to The Changeling.
Author : Claudia Rankine
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781555978860
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters’ disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond. —from the introduction by Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine’s first published play, The White Card, poses the essential question: Can American society progress if whiteness remains invisible? Composed of two scenes, the play opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up-and-coming artist Charlotte. Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and Charles’s intentions. One year later, the second scene brings Charlotte and Charles into the artist’s studio, and their confrontation raises both the stakes and the questions of what—and who—is actually on display. Rankine’s The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : United States
ISBN : UCBK:C050201879
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016485943
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521835381
New and updated encyclopedic guide to American theatre, from its earliest history to the present.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015085477316
Author : Samer Hamadeh
Publisher : Vault Inc.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781581312911
This new Vault guide provides detailed information on the internship programs at over 700 companies nationwide, from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits and governmental institutions.
Author : Christopher Innes,Peter Paul Schnierer,Martin Middeke,Matthew C. Roudané
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408134801
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
Author : Arthur Holmberg,Jan Geidt,Lynn Kasper
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015048746187
A treasury of criticism, reflection, observation, and insight from the A.R.T.'s past twenty years, gleaned from its newsletter, conferences, post-production symposia, and pre-talk shows, illustrated with photographs and drawings from A.R.T. archives.
Author : Robert Scanlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351628716
In Principles of Dramaturgy, Robert Scanlan explains the invariant principles behind the construction of stage and performance events of any style or modality. This book contains all that is essential for training a professional stage director and/or dramaturg, including the "plot-bead" technique for analyzing play scripts developed by Scanlan. It details all the steps for the full implementation of "Production Dramaturgy" as it is practiced in professional theatres, and treats form and action as foundational cornerstones of all performance, rather than "story" elements – a frequent and debilitating misprision in theatre practice. Scanlan’s unique approach offers practical training that is supported by detailed diagrams and contextualized instructions, making this the missing text for classes in dramaturgy. Serving stage directors, dramaturgs, actors, designers, and playwrights, Principles of Dramaturgy is a comprehensive guide that puts the training of capable practitioners above all else.