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Author : Weldon B. Durham
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313208867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887 written by Weldon B. Durham and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.
Author : George Oberkirsh Seilhamer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the American Theatre: Before the revolution [1749-1774 written by George Oberkirsh Seilhamer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Weldon B. Durham
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313253609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book American Theatre Companies, 1931-1986 written by Weldon B. Durham and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series providing essential facts about resident acting companies in the United States spanning from 1749 through 1986. Information includes the company's location, history, personnel, and repertory,
Author : Weldon B. Durham
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Theatre Companies, 1749-1887 written by Weldon B. Durham and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product information not available.
Author : George O. Seilhamer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book History of the American Theatre, 1749-1797 written by George O. Seilhamer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Weldon B. Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (155 download)
Download or read book American Theatre Companies: American theatre companies, 1888-1930 written by Weldon B. Durham and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series providing essential facts about resident acting companies in the United States spanning from 1749 through 1986. Information includes the company's location, history, personnel, and repertory,
Author : John Koegel
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580462154
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Music in German Immigrant Theater written by John Koegel and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.
Author : Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521825085
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson written by Heather S. Nathans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book examines the growth and influence of the theatre in the development of the young American Republic.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521472043
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Author : Jane K. Curry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313031096
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers written by Jane K. Curry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-07-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock companies, owning or leasing theatres, hiring actors and other personnel, selecting plays for production, directing rehearsals, supervising all production details, and promoting their dramatic offerings. Competing in risky business ventures, these women were remarkable for defying societal norms that restricted career opportunities for women. The activities of more than 50 such women are discussed in Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers, beginning with an account of 15 pioneering women managers who were all managing theatres before 24 December 1853, when Catherine Sinclair, often incorrectly identified as the first woman theatre manager in the United States, opened her theatre in San Francisco.
Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521564441
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (644 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : J. A. Sokalski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773560297
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Pictorial Illusionism written by J. A. Sokalski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together a wealth of primary sources, J.A. Sokalski examines the aims, inventions, and methods of the pictorial style that defined MacKaye's art. Sokalski shows how MacKaye's famous Madison Square Theatre, which featured a double stage reminiscent of an elevator, created whirling pictorial illusions for fashionable New York. He argues that MacKaye's infamous failure, the colossal Spectatorium theatre for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, was the most complete realization of this illusionary aesthetic. Sokalski also explores MacKaye's influence on Buffalo Bill Cody and how civil war cycloramas expanded his concept of pictorial space.
Author : William Dunlap
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091035
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832 written by William Dunlap and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a pioneer on the frontier of the fledgling American theatre, full of adventures, mishaps, and close calls. He adapted and translated plays for the American audience and wrote plays of his own as well, learning how theatres and theatre companies operated from the inside out. Dunlap's masterpiece, A History of American Theatre was the first of its kind, drawing on the author's own experiences. In it, he describes the development of theatre in New York, Philadelphia, and South Carolina as well as Congress's first attempts at theatrical censorship. Never before previously indexed, this edition also includes a new introduction by Tice L. Miller.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538107864
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in America from the years following the end of the Civil War to the Golden Age of Broadway, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such diverse figures as William Gillette, Mrs. Fiske, George M. Cohan, Maude Adams, David Belasco, George Abbott, Clyde Fitch, Eugene O’Neill, Texas Guinan, Robert Edmond Jones, Jeanne Eagels, Susan Glaspell, The Adlers and the Barrymores, Tallulah Bankhead, Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson, Mae West, Elmer Rice, Laurette Taylor, Eva Le Gallienne, and a score of others. Entries abound on plays of all kinds, from melodrama to the newly-embraced realistic style, ethnic works (Irish, Yiddish, etc.), and such diverse forms as vaudeville, circus, minstrel shows, temperance plays, etc. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the American Theater in its greatest era.
Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810868849
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of American Theater written by James Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The period of 1880 to 1929 is the richest theater era in American history, certainly in the number of plays produced and significant artists, as well as in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism gradually seeped into American theater during the 1880s and 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. Such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S. Kaufman ushered in the golden age of American drama." "The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by modernism in Europe and by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays, music, playwrights, performers, producers, critics, architects, designers, and costumes." --Book Jacket.
Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180513
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Theatre on the American Frontier written by Thomas A. Bogar and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. As a result, the story of theatre on the frontier consists primarily of regional studies with limited scope. Thomas A. Bogar’s Theatre on the American Frontier provides an overdue, balanced treatment of the accomplishments of the troupes working in the trans-Appalachian West. From its origins in late eighteenth-century Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Louisville, frontier theatre grew by the close of the nineteenth century to encompass more than a dozen centers of vibrant theatrical activity. Audiences—mainly pioneers struggling with the hardships of establishing a life in the backcountry—enjoyed thrilling melodramas, the comedies of George Colman the Younger and John O’Keeffe, and even the tragedies of William Shakespeare. Theatre companies that ventured into this challenging and unfamiliar territory did so with a combination of daring and determination. Bogar’s comprehensive study brings this neglected history into the spotlight, cementing these figures and their theatrical productions and practices in their rightful place.
Author : Benjamin McArthur
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300122322
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Man who was Rip Van Winkle written by Benjamin McArthur and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, Benjamin McArthur chronicles Jefferson's remarkable career and offers a lively and original account of the heroic age of the American theatre. Joe Jefferson's entire life was spent on the stage, from the age of Jackson to the dawn of motion pictures. He extensively toured the United States as well as Australia and Great Britain. An ever-successful career (including acclaim as painter and memoirist) put him in the company of the great actors, artists, and writers of the day, including Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, John Singer Sargent, and William Dean Howells. This book rescues a brilliant figure and places him, appropriately enough, on center stage of a pivotal time for American theatre. McArthur explores the personalities of the period, the changing theatrical styles and their audiences, the touring life, and the wide and varied culture of theatre. Through the life of Jefferson, McArthur is able to illuminate an era.
