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Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199574193
An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.
Author : Ananda Lal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060131482
This Encyclopedic Volume Is The First Of Its Kind In Any Language Covering All Of Indian Theatre. Lavishly Illustrated, With Some Rare Photographs From Archival Collections.
Author : Phyllis Hartnoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0191727113
Based on the Oxford Companion to the Theatre, this searchable database contains entries on theatrical styles, dramatists, performers, and directors, as well as information on theatres, festivals, and such technical topics as lighting, sound, and method acting.
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015029198119
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
Author : Eugene Benson,Leonard W. Conolly
Publisher : Toronto, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:49015002921535
The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary and exciting growth in Canadian theater. Today, 200 professional theater companies span the country and more than 10,000 published plays appear in bibliographies. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre is the first reference book to document the growth and development of Canadian drama and theater in English and French--from its beginnings to the present day. The book offers 680 entries written by 155 contributors that provide biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers; major theaters, including 19th-century theaters, and companies; major plays; and numerous miscellaneous subjects such as collective theater, design, directing, ethnic theater, musical theater, radio and television drama, and local theater. The result of almost four years' research, this authoritative reference offers a wealth of fascinating and important information, as well as over 200 beautiful illustrations.
Author : Phyllis Hartnoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:37331119
Author : Peter Found,Phyllis Hartnoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Theater
ISBN : OCLC:605270736
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780195169867
Author : Phyllis Hartnoll
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015046785468
Seeking to provide a survey of the development of the theatre from its beginnings in primitive ritual to the present day in all countries that have a continuing theatrical tradition, this edition offers information on contemporary writers, directors, plays, companies and theatres, both metropolitan and regional. Entries dealing with technical subjects emphasize the historical perspective and are illustrated when necessary. Other illustrations are placed in thematically arranged groups and function independent of the text, showing the changes of vision in theatrical production over the past 2000 years. ISBN 0-19-211546-4 : $49.95.
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman,Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015002999697
First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have hailed its "wealth of authoritative information" (Back Stage), its "fascinating picture of the volatile American stage" (The Guardian), and its "well-chosen, illuminating facts" (Newsday).Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Completely updated by theater professor Thomas Hischak, the volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. The book covers not only classic works (such as Death of a Salesman) but also many commercially successful plays (such as Getting Gertie's Garter), plus entries on foreign figures that have influenced our dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter). New entries include recent plays such as Angels in America and Six Degrees of Separation, performers such as Eric Bogosian and Bill Irwin, playwrights like David Henry Hwang and Wendy Wasserstein, and relevant developments and issues including AIDS in American theatre, theatrical producing by Disney, and the rise in solo performance.Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference is ideal not only for students and scholars of theater, but everyone with a passion for the stage.
Author : Gerald Bordman,Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199771158
First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have hailed its "wealth of authoritative information" (Back Stage), its "fascinating picture of the volatile American stage" (The Guardian), and its "well-chosen, illuminating facts" (Newsday). Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Completely updated by theater professor Thomas Hischak, the volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. The book covers not only classic works (such as Death of a Salesman) but also many commercially successful plays (such as Getting Gertie's Garter), plus entries on foreign figures that have influenced our dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter). New entries include recent plays such as Angels in America and Six Degrees of Separation, performers such as Eric Bogosian and Bill Irwin, playwrights like David Henry Hwang and Wendy Wasserstein, and relevant developments and issues including AIDS in American theatre, theatrical producing by Disney, and the rise in solo performance. Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference is ideal not only for students and scholars of theater, but everyone with a passion for the stage.
Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199887323
From the silver screen to the Great White Way, small community theatres to television sets, the musical has long held a special place in America's heart and history. Now, in The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, readers who flocked to the movies to see An American in Paris or Chicago, lined up for tickets to West Side Story or Rent, or crowded around their TVs to watch Cinderella or High School Musical can finally turn to a single book for details about them all. For the first time, this popular subject has an engaging and authoritative book as thrilling as the performances themselves. With more than two thousand entries, this illustrated guide offers a wealth of information on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists, producers, choreographers, and much more. Biographical entries range from early stars Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, and Mae West to contemporary show-stoppers Nathan Lane, Savion Glover, and Kristin Chenoweth, while composers Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Andrew Lloyd Webber all have articles, and the choreography of Bob Fosse, Tommy Tune, and Debbie Allen receives due examination. The plays and films covered range from modern hits like Mamma Mia! and Moulin Rouge! to timeless classics such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and Show Boat. Also, numerous musicals written specifically for television appear throughout, and many entries follow a work-Babes in Toyland for example-as it moves across genres, from stage, to film, to television. The Companion also includes cross references, a comprehensive listing of recommended recordings and further reading, a useful chronology of all the musicals described in the book, plus a complete index of Tony Award and Academy Award winners. Whether you are curious about Singin' in the Rain or Spamalot, or simply adore The Wizard of Oz or Grease, this well-researched and entertaining resource is the first place to turn for reliable information on virtually every aspect of the American musical.
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520321878
Author : Julia Swindells,David Francis Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199600304
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides a comprehensive guide to theatre of the Georgian era across the range of dramatic forms.
Author : Nicholas Grene,Chris Morash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016349
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.