Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dramatists
ISBN : UVA:X006019641
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly
Anonim
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Dramatists Guild Quarterly book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Dramatists
ISBN : UVA:X001927922
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly by Anonim Pdf
Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers on Theater
Otis L. Guernsey
Author : Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035618417
Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers on Theater by Otis L. Guernsey Pdf
Sondheim's Broadway Musicals
Stephen Banfield
Author : Stephen Banfield
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472080830
Sondheim's Broadway Musicals by Stephen Banfield Pdf
The first in-depth look at the work and career of one of the most important figures in the history of musical theater
The Sixties, Center Stage
James M. Harding,Cindy Rosenthal
Author : James M. Harding,Cindy Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053360
The Sixties, Center Stage by James M. Harding,Cindy Rosenthal Pdf
Challenges the notion that the theater of the 1960s falls neatly into two categories, mainstream or experimental
Somewhere
Amanda Vaill
Author : Amanda Vaill
Publisher : Crown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767904216
Somewhere by Amanda Vaill Pdf
From the author of the acclaimed Everybody Was So Young, the definitive and major biography of the great choreographer and Broadway legend Jerome Robbins To some, Jerome Robbins was a demanding perfectionist, a driven taskmaster, a theatrical visionary; to others, he was a loyal friend, a supportive mentor, a generous and entertaining companion and colleague. Born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York City in 1918, Jerome Robbins repudiated his Jewish roots along with his name only to reclaim them with his triumphant staging of Fiddler on the Roof. A self-proclaimed homosexual, he had romances or relationships with both men and women, some famous—like Montgomery Clift and Natalie Wood—some less so. A resolutely unpolitical man, he was forced to testify before Congress at the height of anti-Communist hysteria. A consummate entertainer, he could be paralyzed by shyness; nearly infallible professionally, he was conflicted, vulnerable, and torn by self-doubt. Guarded and adamantly private, he was an inveterate and painfully honest journal writer who confided his innermost thoughts and aspirations to a remarkable series of diaries and memoirs. With ballets like Dances at a Gathering, Afternoon of a Faun, and The Concert, he humanized neoclassical dance; with musicals like On the Town, Gypsy, and West Side Story, he changed the face of theater in America. In the pages of this definitive biography, Amanda Vaill takes full measure of the complicated, contradictory genius who was Jerome Robbins. She re-creates his childhood as the only son of Russian Jewish immigrants; his apprenticeship as a dancer and Broadway chorus gypsy; his explosion into prominence at the age of twenty-five with the ballet Fancy Free and its Broadway incarnation, On the Town; and his years of creative dominance in both theater and dance. She brings to life his colleagues and friends—from Leonard Bernstein and George Balanchine to Robert Wilson and Robert Graves—and his loves and lovers. And she tells the full story behind some of Robbins’s most difficult episodes, such as his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee and his firing from the film version of West Side Story. Drawing on thousands of pages of documents from Robbins’s personal and professional papers, to which she was granted unfettered access, as well as on other archives and hundreds of interviews, Somewhere is a riveting narrative of a life lived onstage, offstage, and backstage. It is also an accomplished work of criticism and social history that chronicles one man’s phenomenal career and places it squarely in the cultural ferment of a time when New York City was truly “a helluva town.”
The Elements of Playwriting
Louis E. Catron
Author : Louis E. Catron
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478608264
The Elements of Playwriting by Louis E. Catron Pdf
Being a playwright means more than just putting pen to paperit means expressing a personal point of view, bringing a vision to life, developing dimensional characters, structuring a plays action, creating effective characters, creating effective dialogue, and finding producers, directors, and actors to bring a work to life. Catron, a respected writer, producer, director, and instructor, explores these themes and more, presenting the basic principles necessary for writing a stageworthy play. By emphasizing stageworthiness, he shows how to avoid common pitfalls, such as treating a play as literature or being overinfluenced by cinematic writing. Examples from classical and modern plays are included throughout, as are exercises for sharpening and developing skills and practical guidelines on working with actors and directors, getting produced and published, and finding an agent.
Stephen Sondheim
Meryle Secrest
Author : Meryle Secrest
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307946850
Stephen Sondheim by Meryle Secrest Pdf
In the first full-scale life of the most important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master of modernist compositional style--but also the private man. Beginning with his early childhood on New York's prosperous Upper West Side, Secrest describes how Sondheim was taught to play the piano by his father, a successful dress manufacturer and amateur musician. She writes about Sondheim's early ambition to become a concert pianist, about the effect on him of his parents' divorce when he was ten, about his years in military and private schools. She writes about his feelings of loneliness and abandonment, about the refuge he found in the home of Oscar and Dorothy Hammerstein, and his determination to become just like Oscar. Secrest describes the years when Sondheim was struggling to gain a foothold in the theatre, his attempts at scriptwriting (in his early twenties in Rome on the set of Beat the Devil with Bogart and Huston, and later in Hollywood as a co-writer with George Oppenheimer for the TV series Topper), living the Hollywood life. Here is Sondheim's ascent to the peaks of the Broadway musical, from his chance meeting with play- wright Arthur Laurents, which led to his first success-- as co-lyricist with Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story--to his collaboration with Laurents on Gypsy, to his first full Broadway score, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. And Secrest writes about his first big success as composer, lyricist, writer in the 1960s with Company, an innovative and sophisticated musical that examined marriage à la mode. It was the start of an almost-twenty-year collaboration with producer and director Hal Prince that resulted in such shows as Follies, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, and A Little Night Music. We see Sondheim at work with composers, producers, directors, co-writers, actors, the greats of his time and ours, among them Leonard Bernstein, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Zero Mostel, Bernadette Peters, and Lee Remick (with whom it was said he was in love, and she with him), as Secrest vividly re-creates the energy, the passion, the despair, the excitement, the genius, that went into the making of show after Sondheim show. A biography that is sure to become the standard work on Sondheim's life and art.
Jerome Robbins
Deborah Jowitt,Jerome Robbins
Author : Deborah Jowitt,Jerome Robbins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Choreographers
ISBN : 0684869853
Jerome Robbins by Deborah Jowitt,Jerome Robbins Pdf
Chronicles the life of American ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins, discussing his career and private life, his Russian Jewish heritage, and his impact on dance and theater.
The Richard Rodgers Reader
Geoffrey Block
Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195313437
The Richard Rodgers Reader by Geoffrey Block Pdf
Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon," and "Bewitched," to name just a few of the songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart, is scarcely imaginable, and the musicals he wrote with his second collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein--Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music--continue to enchant and entertain audiences. Arranged in four sections, Rodgers and Hart (1929-1943), Rodgers and Hammerstein (1943-1960), Rodgers After Hammerstein (1960-1979), and The Composer Speaks (1939-1971), The Richard Rodgers Reader offers a cornucopia of informative, perceptive, and stylish biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy in the 1920s, the 1938 Time magazine cover story and New Yorker profiles in 1938 and 1961, and essays and reviews by such noted critics as Brooks Atkinson, Eric Bentley, Leonard Bernstein, Lehman Engel, Walter Kerr, Ken Mandelbaum, Ethan Mordden, George Jean Nathan, and Alec Wilder. The volume features personal accounts by Richard Adler, Agnes de Mille, Joshua Logan, Mary Martin, and Diahann Carroll. The collection concludes with complete selections from more than thirty years of Rodgers's own writings on topics ranging from the creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, even Rodgers's bout with cancer, and a generous sample from the candid and previously unpublished Columbia University interviews. For anyone wishing to explore more fully the life and work of a composer whose songs and musicals have assumed a permanent--and prominent--place in American popular culture, The Richard Rodgers Reader will offer endless delights.
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015085477209
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498462
Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
Field Hearings on the Reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities Act and the Museum Services Act
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Federal aid to museums
ISBN : UCR:31210014659823
Field Hearings on the Reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities Act and the Museum Services Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf
Field Hearings on the Reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities Act and the Museum Services Act
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Federal aid to museums
ISBN : PURD:32754076336837
Field Hearings on the Reauthorization of the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities Act and the Museum Services Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education Pdf
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878052941
Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Lillian Hellman Pdf
From six decades, 26 interviews with the renowned playwright that show her pungency, directness, honesty, & wit. Includes three previously unprinted interviews from television broadcasts--with Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, & Marilyn Berger.
