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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 : Roy Harris
Publisher : Heinemann Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eight Women of the American Stage written by Roy Harris and published by Heinemann Drama. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable, informative book about the professional lives of some of the foremost actresses working in theatre and film today.
Author : Barbara Wallace Grossman
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809328828
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A Spectacle of Suffering written by Barbara Wallace Grossman and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once called "America's greatest actress," renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage is the first full-length study of the actress's importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris's dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and nine books—six works of fiction and three memoirs. Grossman draws on the fifty-four-volume diary that Morris kept from 1868 until 1924, as well as on the manuscript fragments and notes of journalist George T. MacAdam, who died in 1929 before completing the actress's biography. Grossman provides a dramatic account of Morris's life and work from her troubled early years, through an unhappy marriage, morphine addiction, and invalidism, to the challenges of touring, the decline of her artistic reputation, and the demands of the writing career she pursued so tenaciously. A Spectacle of Suffering reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. A Spectacle of Suffering recovers an important figure in American theatre and ensures that Morris will be remembered not simply as an actress but as a respected writer and beloved public figure, admired for her courage in dealing with adversity. The book, which is enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, is the only published biography of Clara Morris. It is as much a tribute to the power of the human spirit as it is an effective means of exploring American theatre and society in the Gilded Age.
Author : Walter Prichard Eaton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020898549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The American Stage of To-day written by Walter Prichard Eaton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book explores the vibrant and diverse landscape of American theater in the early 20th century. Eaton examines the work of major playwrights such as Eugene O'Neill, as well as the influence of European traditions and the rise of experimental theater. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of American culture and the performing arts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Susan Jonas
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dramaturgy in American Theater written by Susan Jonas and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1997 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive work is truly the first textbook in the field of dramaturgy. Most of the material-much of it by leaders in all areas of the theater-was commissioned for this collection, rather than being reprinted. Its currency and importance cannot be overestimated. A review of the history of dramaturgy as a profession, together with its European antecedents, gives students a sense of historical context. Selections from respected and recognized names in theater provoke student interest and communicate the benefits of those experts' experiences.
Author : Odai Johnson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639030
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Colonial American Stage, 1665-1774 written by Odai Johnson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geographic range of this study is the British American colonies, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Savannah, in the Georgia colony on the continent, and the British West Indies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ron Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521412384
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The American Stage written by Ron Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.
Author : Walter Prichard Eaton
Publisher : Boston : Small, Maynard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Stage of To-day written by Walter Prichard Eaton and published by Boston : Small, Maynard. This book was released on 1908 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia A. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139446274
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre written by Julia A. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
Author : Laurence Hutton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752332077
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Curiosities of the American Stage written by Laurence Hutton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Curiosities of the American Stage by Laurence Hutton
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Musical Theatre written by Gerald Martin Bordman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Amanda Giguere
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078646187X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Plays of Yasmina Reza on the English and American Stage written by Amanda Giguere and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France's most prominent female playwrights, are popular both in France and abroad. Despite her commercial success, her plays have often been ignored in academic circles, and few scholars have attempted to explore the mechanics of her playwriting. This text seeks to unpack the essentials of Reza's style and to explore each play as a component of Reza's theatrical oeuvre. The result is a fuller understanding of her theatrical poetics and her development as an artist.
Author : Daniel C. Blum
Publisher : New York : Greenberg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Stars of the American Stage written by Daniel C. Blum and published by New York : Greenberg. This book was released on 1952 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An homage to many theatre performers, some dead, some still living at the time of publishing.
Author : Richard Somerset-Ward
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300106483
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book An American Theatre written by Richard Somerset-Ward and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book traces the entire story of Westport Country Playhouse from its beginnings in the midst of the Depression to its 75th-anniversary renovations and rejuvenation. Filled with colorful characters, it is a story that will appeal to everyone who has ever been enchanted by live theatre.
Author : Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521870119
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 written by Heather S. Nathans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.
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 : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818193
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century written by John H. Houchin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural traditions. Along with the well-known instance of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, other almost equally influential events shaped the course of the American stage during the century. The book is arranged in chronological order. It provides a summary of censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and then analyses key political and theatrical events between 1900 and 2000. These include a discussion of the 1913 riot after the Abbey Theatre touring produdtion of Playboy of the Western World; protests against Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty, performed by militant workers during the Depression; and reactions to the recent play Angels in America.
