The American Stage of To-day
Author: Walter Prichard Eaton
Publisher: Boston : Small, Maynard
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Walter Prichard Eaton
Publisher: Boston : Small, Maynard
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jacob Gallagher-Ross
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0810136686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theater became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability. Offering both fresh reappraisals of canonical figures and movements and new examinations of theatrical innovators, Theaters of the Everyday reveals surprising affinities between artists often considered poles apart, such as John Cage and Lee Strasberg, and Thornton Wilder and the New York experimentalist Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Gallagher-Ross persuasively shows how these creators eschew conventional definitions of dramatic action and focus attention on smaller but no less profound dramas of perception, consciousness, and day-to-day life. Gallagher-Ross traces some of the intellectual roots of the theater of the everyday to American transcendentalism, with its pragmatic process philosophy as well as its sense of ordinary experience as the wellspring of aesthetic awareness.
Author: Ron Engle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-05-06
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521412384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Roy Harris
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A highly readable, informative book about the professional lives of some of the foremost actresses working in theatre and film today.
Author: Odai Johnson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780838639030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Susan Jonas
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 622
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Walter Prichard Eaton
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020898549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Emily Klein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1135087725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight audiences to this day. The play’s "make love not war" message and bawdy humor render it endlessly appealing to college campuses, activist groups, and community theatres – so much so that none of Aristophanes’ plays are performed in the West as frequently as Lysistrata. Starting with the play’s first mainstream production in the U.S. in 1930, Emily B. Klein explores the varied iterations of Lysistrata that have graced the American stage, page, and screen since the Great Depression. These include the Federal Theatre’s 1936 Negro Repertory production, the 1955 movie musical The Second Greatest Sex and Spiderwoman Theater’s openly political Lysistrata Numbah!, as well as Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones, and the international Lysistrata Project protests, which updated the classic in the contemporary context of the Iraq War. Although Aristophanes’ oeuvre has been the subject of much classical scholarship, Lysistrata has received little attention from feminist theatre scholars or performance theorists. In response, this book maps current debates over Lysistrata’s dubious feminist underpinnings and uses performance theory, cultural studies, and gender studies to investigate how new adaptations reveal the socio-political climates of their origins. Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance and Frontiers as well as Political and Protest Theater After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, 2012).
Author: Robert Brustein
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-12-31
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0809080583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.