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Author : Judi Ann Mason
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573691249
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book A Star Ain't Nothin' But a Hole in Heaven written by Judi Ann Mason and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087721X
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections written by Denise L. Montgomery and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century 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.
Author : Sandra M. Mayo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477308202
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Stages of Struggle and Celebration written by Sandra M. Mayo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichés of horses, cattle, and bravado. Drawing on troves of archival materials from numerous statewide sources, Stages of Struggle and Celebration captures the important legacies of the dramatic arts in a historical field that has paid most of its attention to black musicians. Setting the stage, the authors retrace the path of the cakewalk and African-inspired dance as forerunners to formalized productions at theaters in the major metropolitan areas. From Houston’s Ensemble and Encore Theaters to the Jubilee in Fort Worth, gospel stage plays of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, as well as San Antonio’s Hornsby Entertainment Theater Company and Renaissance Guild, concluding with ProArts Collective in Austin, Stages of Struggle and Celebration features founding narratives, descriptions of key players and memorable productions, and enlightening discussions of community reception and the business challenges faced by each theatre. The role of drama departments in historically black colleges in training the companies’ founding members is also explored, as is the role the support of national figures such as Tyler Perry plays in ensuring viability. A canon of Texas playwrights completes the tour. The result is a diverse tribute to the artistic legacies that continue to inspire new generations of producers and audiences.
Author : Ora Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780810846609
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)
Download or read book American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences written by Ora Williams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback! Calls attention to the many contributions African-American women have made to American and world culture. Includes pictures of artists, art works, and authors.
Author : Anthony D. Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538117290
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of African American Theater written by Anthony D. Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater’s history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country—identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.
Author : Anthony D. Hill
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870614
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of African American Theater written by Anthony D. Hill and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Matt Williams
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573619014
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Between Daylight and Boonville written by Matt Williams and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript, 1980. Unmarked script of a play that premiered in New York, New York in 1980.
Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573615832
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Sticks and Bones written by David Rabe and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies that haunt him. Wanting to return their son to normal, Ozzie offers camaraderie, while Harriet cooks and bakes the foods he once loved, and shares her faith in her beloved religion. But David grows even more vengeful. Ozzie feels the foundation of his world crumbling. In a darkly hilarious scene, a catholic priest called in to give his blessing is, ingeniously, rebuffed by David. Finally, Ozzie and Harriet break under the pressure, for it seems David is about to turn their home into his nightmare. It's up to guitar-playing, fudge-eating Ricky to save the day and allow the family to return their cherished status qua with a tidy, ritualistic atrocity all their own."--Publisher's description.
Author : Jane Anderson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693144
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Food and Shelter written by Jane Anderson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123029
Total Pages : 1233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 1233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater. Second Edition covers theatrical practice and practitioners as well as the dramatic literature of the United States of America from 1930 to the present. The 90 years covered by this volume features the triumph of Broadway as the center of American drama from 1930 to the early 1960s through a Golden Age exemplified by the plays of Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, and Edward Albee, among others. The impact of the previous modernist era contributed greatly to this period of prodigious creativity on American stages. This volume will continue through an exploration of the decline of Broadway as the center of U.S. theater in the 1960s and the evolution of regional theaters, as well as fringe and university theaters that spawned a second Golden Age at the millennium that produced another – and significantly more diverse – generation of significant dramatists including such figures as Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Maria Irené Fornes, Beth Henley, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and numerous others. The impact of the Great Depression and World War II profoundly influenced the development of the American stage, as did the conformist 1950s and the revolutionary 1960s on in to the complex times in which we currently live. Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on plays, playwrights, directors, designers, actors, critics, producers, theaters, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about American theater.
Author : Gary D. Joiner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655790
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Legendary Locals of Shreveport written by Gary D. Joiner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Locals of Shreveport chronicles fascinating people who have made a difference in the Shreveport-Bossier City area. Some are good, some are bad, and more than a few are wicked. There are movie starlets, entertainers, decorated war veterans, gangsters, preachers, madams, politicians, giants of industry, and humble folk who rose to greatness or infamy. Shreveport began as a rough and tumble frontier town that came late to being "civilized." A Baptist preacher shot one of Quantrill's Raiders when he rode his horse into church during a Sunday service. The most famous madam in the region was also a suffragette. The first successful bankers in Shreveport were immigrants from Prussia who developed a business model that extends into the modern era. Shreveport lost one quarter of its population in less than a month due to a yellow fever epidemic. And that is just the beginning.
Author : Garry Marshall
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573694820
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Wrong Turn at Lungfish written by Garry Marshall and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audiences in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, where George C. Scott starred, applauded the comedy and the drama of Wrong Turn at Lungfish, the story of a blind and bitter college professor and his encounter with a saucy, streetwise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the hospital. The clash of intellect and wit takes the two from animosity and fear to friendship and understanding. Both come to their relationship with questions, hers dealing with her station in life a
Author : Jane Anderson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573692987
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)
Download or read book The Baby Dance written by Jane Anderson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate L.A. professional couple, unable to have children, arrange to buy the unborn baby of a dirt-poor Louisiana pair. Emotions run high and relationships hang by a thread in this passionate and heartbreaking Off-Broadway drama by Mad Man writer Jane Anderson. It is a play that audiences will take home with them; it might provoke disagreement, as do the issues themselves.
Author : Heather McDonald
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693748
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Dream of a Common Language written by Heather McDonald and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing work produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in New York was inspired by an actual incident: women were banned from the artists' dinner to plan the first Impressionist painting exhibit in 1874, even though works by women were to be shown. In the play, the dinner is at the home of Victor, a successful artists, and Clovis, an artist who no longer paints. After helping with the preparations and being excluded from the dining room, Clovis devises a "women only" dinner to be held outdoors.
Author : Shirley Lauro
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693335
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (933 download)
Download or read book A Piece of My Heart written by Shirley Lauro and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Suggested by the book [A Piece of my heart, compiled] by Keith Walker."
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693199
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Three Sisters written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama / Characters: 9 male, 6 female Scenery 2 Interiors / 1 Exterior This poignant story of three provincial sisters who long with all their hearts to go to Moscow is classic theatre which has featured many of the world's great actresses and actors in the roles of Olga, Masha, Irina and Vershinin.
Author : Eric Bogosian
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573694097
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead written by Eric Bogosian and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary author scored a triumph Off Broadway with this cavalcade of characters from America's nightmare, spewing dead-on monologues that amazingly horrify and amuse at the same time.
