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The Best Plays of 1999-2000 by Otis L. Guernsey, Jr. Pdf
Besides containing abridged excerpts from the most important plays and musicals, the Theater yearbook also gives information about the New York season, on and off Broadway, about the season throughout the U.S., and gives facts and figures about the American theater.
The Best Plays of 1999-2000 by Otis L. Guernsey Pdf
Besides containing abridged excerpts from the most important plays and musicals, the Theater yearbook also gives information about the New York season, on and off Broadway, about the season throughout the U.S., and gives facts and figures about the American theater.
The Best American Short Plays 2011-2012 by William W. Demastes Pdf
Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. William W. Demastes made his debut as series editor with the well-received 2010-2011 volume, a diverse collection revolving around the multidimensional theme of love. Blogcritics said of the anthology: "This collection is a bountiful of pleasing oddities. Each work offers something worthwhile.... The collection runs the gamut of the most serious drama to the most irreverent topical mental trinkets...." Demastes returns and once again draws from works produced by some of America's finest theater companies in an effort to capture the wide range of styles, topics, and regional tastes that typifies American theater. The compilation includes works by John Guare, Neil LaBute, and A. R. Gurney, as well as contributions from a plethora of gifted, emerging playwrights.
Sassy Mamas and Other Plays by Celeste Bedford Walker Pdf
Celeste Bedford Walker, one of the most accomplished contemporary playwrights in Texas, crafts dramas from history and everyday life that illuminate the African American experience in all its variety, tragedy, pathos, and hilarity. Collected here are five of her most acclaimed plays: Sassy Mamas, Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed, Reunion in Bartersville, Distant Voices, and Camp Logan. The topics treated by Walker are timelier than ever. Sassy Mamas follows “three women of substance and of a certain age who flip the script on gender stereotypes and become involved with younger men.” Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed tells the powerful story of the horrific attack on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as the “Black Wall Street.” In Reunion in Bartersville, described by Walker as “a comedy-mystery in two acts,” the 50-year class reunion of Bartersville High School turns to hilarious suspense when an unexpected guest arrives. Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Distant Voices “resurrects” persons buried in College Memorial Park, the second-oldest African American cemetery in Houston, to celebrate the wisdom of those gone before. Camp Logan is based on real-life events in Houston in 1917, when members of the highly decorated 24th Infantry Regiment were subjected to brutal Jim Crow treatment, resulting in a riot that left dozens dead and the execution of seventeen African American soldiers for mutiny. Readers and audiences should be prepared to laugh out loud, to be challenged, to be disturbed, and above all, to be enlightened by this poignant collection of plays.
The A to Z of African American Theater by Anthony D. Hill,Douglas Q. Barnett Pdf
African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient times to the present. It afforded black artists a cultural gold mine to celebrate what it was like to be an African American in The New World. The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.
The Director as Collaborator teaches essential directing skills while emphasizing how directors and theater productions benefit from collaboration. Good collaboration occurs when the director shares responsibility for the artistic creation with the entire production team, including actors, designers, stage managers, and technical staff. Leadership does not preclude collaboration; in theater, these concepts can and should be complementary. Students will develop their abilities by directing short scenes and plays and by participating in group exercises. New to the second edition: updated interviews, exercises, forms, and appendices new chapter on technology including digital research, previsualization and drafting programs, and web-sharing sites new chapter on devised and ensemble-based works new chapter on immersive theater, including material and exercises on environmental staging and audience–performer interaction
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s by Felicia Hardison Londré 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 works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1946), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947), Long Day's Journey Into Night (written 1941, produced 1956), and A Touch of the Poet (written 1942, produced 1958); * Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948); * Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The Crucible (1953); * Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and The Alcestiad (written 1940s).
Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000 by Amnon Kabatchnik Pdf
Discussing more than 80 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection produced between 1975 and 2000. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well-known and respected critics and scholars.
Sport and Social Exclusion by Michael F. Collins,Tess Kay Pdf
This book presents the first comprehensive review of factors leading to exclusion from participation in sport in the UK. Structured around key excluded groups, such as the elderly, ethnic minorities, the disabled and rural communities, the book offers an important assessment of sports policy in contemporary Britain, as well as a unique case study of policies to combat social exclusion under New Labour.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Acting by Paul Baldwin,John Williams Malone Pdf
Provides advice for amateur and professional actors about theater skills, auditions, rehearsals, openings, and how to become a professional, and discusses the benefits of acting for non-professionals.
The Best American Short Plays, 1999-2000 by Glenn Young Pdf
Presents a collection of ten American short plays from the 1999-2000 theater season, including selections by Pearl Cleage, Rich Orloff, Shel Silverstein, and others, each with a brief profile of the playwright.
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize by Emilie S. Kilgore Pdf
"For twenty-five years the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has recognized, honored, and encouraged the most gifted women writing for the English-speaking theater. These six plays, from both sides of the Atlantic, were selected by the distinguished international panel of judges from the finalists of the twenty-fifth anniversary year." "Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman tackles the charged and dangerous world of discrimination within the African-American community." "Frozen by Bryony Lavery deals with the horror of child molestation, although the artistry of the language gives a depth and humanity to the emotional life of each of the three characters that transcends any sensationalism." "Rinne Groff's Orange Lemon Egg Canary uses a magician's show as a metaphor for the magic of theatre and the agony of collaboration." "In Helen Cooper's Three Women and a Piano Tuner, a composer, a performer, and a financial backer come together to put on a concert. As tensions rise between the women, the true and startling nature of their relationship becomes clear." "Hannah and Martin by Kate Fodor starts at the moment when Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt decides to support Martin Heidegger in spite of his own pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic WWII stances. The play then spirals backwards, to dramatize all incarnations of their relationships, from colleagues to lovers to antagonists." "Charlotte Eilenberg's The Lucky Ones, pierces the intricacies of post-Holocaust responsibility through the simple theatrical action of a real estate exchange."--BOOK JACKET.
International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 by Europa Publications Pdf
Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
