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Author : Francis Courtney Wemyss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Wemyss' Chronology of the American Stage written by Francis Courtney Wemyss and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Courtney Wemyss
Publisher : Ayer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780405090585
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Chronology of the American Stage, from 1752 to 1852 written by Francis Courtney Wemyss and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1852 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Courtney Wemyss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Wemyss' Chronology of the American Stage, From 1752 to 1852 written by Francis Courtney Wemyss and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Grange
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000074714
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Business of American Theatre written by William Grange and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of American Theatre is a research guide to the history of producing theatre in the United States. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book explores how traditions of investment, marketing, labor union contracts, advertising, leasing arrangements, ticket scalping, zoning ordinances, royalties, and numerous other financial transactions have influenced the art of theatre for the past three centuries. Yet the book is not a dry reiteration of hits and flops, bankruptcies and bamboozles. Nor does it cover "everything about it that's appealing, everything the traffic will allow" (as Irving Berlin did in the song "There's No Business Like Show Business"). It is instead a highly readable resource for anyone interested in how money, and how much money, is critical to the art and artists of theatre. Many of those artists make appearances in the book: Richard Rodgers and his keen eye for investment, Jacob Shubert and his construction of "the bridge of thighs" for his showgirls at the Winter Garden, the significance of the Disney Souvenir Shop near the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, and the difference between a Broadway show losing millions of dollars or making billions in one night. Consider this book a go-to resource for readers, students, and scholars of the theatre business.
Author : Andrew Davis
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271035781
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book America's Longest Run written by Andrew Davis and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces the history of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia from its founding in 1809. Documents the productions and players at the theater, and the difficulties it has faced from economic crises, changing tastes, and competition from new media"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674375604
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.
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 : West T. HillJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189144
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Theatre in Early Kentucky written by West T. HillJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study shows that the stage was active in Kentucky long before the first professional troupe toured in 1815. During the period covered, 1790–1820, Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville became the major theatrical centers in the West. Performances on Kentucky stages far outnumbered those in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Nashville, or New Orleans. Drawing upon accounts in contemporary newspapers, West T. Hill Jr. demonstrates that drama had developed west of the mountains a full quarter century prior to the date given in theatre histories. The Theatre in Early Kentucky, 1790–1820 captures the full flavor and color of the promoters, managers, professional strollers, and actors, many of whom performed dual roles as actors and managers. Working under primitive conditions, the groups often put on a melodrama, a musical comedy or farce, and several acts of singing, dancing, and recitation in the same performance. Appreciative audiences responded enthusiastically to the overworked and predictable plots of mistaken identity, revenge, and domestic difficulty. This delightful, informative book includes and appendix containing the production data available for 1790–1820. It is illustrated with reproductions of charming newspaper theatrical announcements and with portraits of leading stage figures.
Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331968406X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre written by Thomas A. Bogar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the “sporting man” of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
Author : Lynne Conner
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822943303
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh in Stages written by Lynne Conner and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh is offered in this volume that relates the significant influence and interpretation of urban socioeconomic trends in the theatrical arts and the role of the theater as an agent of social change.
Author : the late Russell Sanjek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190243295
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book American Popular Music and Its Business written by the late Russell Sanjek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-07-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.
Author : Marvin Edward McAllister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854501
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (545 download)
Download or read book White People Do Not Know how to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour written by Marvin Edward McAllister and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McAllister offers a history of black theater pioneer William Brown's career and places his productions within the broader context of U.S. social, political, and cultural history.
Author : Francess G. Halpenny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780802034526
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by Francess G. Halpenny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These biographies of Canadians are arranged chronologically by date of death. Entries in each volume are listed alphabetically, with bibliographies of source material and an index to names.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968936
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book John Durang written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maureen Needham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069994
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (699 download)
Download or read book I See America Dancing written by Maureen Needham and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing dancers, scholars, admirers, and critics, I See America Dancing is a diverse collection of primary documents and articles about the place and shape of dance in the United States from colonial times to the present. This volume offers a lively counterpoint between observers of the dance and dancers' views of what they do when they dance. Dance traditions represented include the Native American pow-wow; tribal music and dance activities on Sunday afternoons in New Orlean's Congo Square; the colonial Playford Balls and their modern offspring, country line dancing; and the Buddhist-inspired Japanese Bon dances in Hawaii. Anti-dance perspectives include government injunctions against Native American dancing and essays from a range of speakers who have declared the waltz, the twist, or the senior prom to be a careless quick-step away from hell or the brothel. I See America Dancing examines the styles that have marked theatrical dance in America, from French ballet to minstrel shows, and presents the views of influential dancers, choreographers, and the pioneers of early modern dance in America. Specific pieces examined include George Ballanchine's ballet Stars and Stripes, Yvonne Rainer's protest piece "Flag Dance, 1970," and Sonjé Mayo's "Naked in America." Covering historical social attitudes toward the dance as well as the performers and their works, I See America Dancing is a comprehensive, scholarly sourcebook that captures the energy and passion of this vital artform.
Author : Vera Brodsky Lawrence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226470092
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Strong on Music written by Vera Brodsky Lawrence and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strong on Music Vera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor of The Piano Works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and The Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."—Harold C. Schonberg, New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."—Victor Fell Yellin, Opera Quarterly
Author : Charles Durang
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809513064
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Theatrical Rambles of Mr. and Mrs. John Greene written by Charles Durang and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greenes were representative of a class of journeymen actors, who received but little attention by chroniclers of early nineteenth-century theatre history. Along with hundreds of other craftsmen of their day, they experienced frequent moments of tribulation and rare occasions of triumph-respected artists who bore their daily vicissitudes as an expected part of the theatrical life. They traveled from place to place applying their craft, appearing with many of the major performers of the era. Mrs. Greene's personal memoirs were originally serialized in The New York Clipper in the 1860s by Charles Durang, who supplied additional material from his experiences as an actor, promoter, and dancing master. The original publication has now been greatly expanded by William L. Slout. Contains a helpful Chronology, comprehensive Notes, and a detailed Bibliography, and Index.
