Author: Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
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.
American Musical Theatre
Author: Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
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.
Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century
Author: John H. Houchin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818193
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818193
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Three Hundred Years of American Drama and Theatre
Author: Garff B. Wilson
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Combining the history of playwriting and the development of acting, stagecraft and management, this edition includes recent developments in the realm of American theatre up to 1980. As in the first edition it features "imaginary visits" to the theatres of each era from Colonial times to the present-- from buying a ticket to attending the afterpiece and walking home.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Combining the history of playwriting and the development of acting, stagecraft and management, this edition includes recent developments in the realm of American theatre up to 1980. As in the first edition it features "imaginary visits" to the theatres of each era from Colonial times to the present-- from buying a ticket to attending the afterpiece and walking home.
A History of Asian American Theatre
Author: Esther Kim Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850517
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850517
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre
Author: Julia A. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
The Other American Drama
Author: Marc Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801856303
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of essays provides an alternative to the accepted account of the development of American drama. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801856303
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of essays provides an alternative to the accepted account of the development of American drama. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Chicano Drama
Author: Jorge A. Huerta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521778176
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
An accessible introduction for students and theatregoers of Chicano theatre, first published in 2000.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521778176
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
An accessible introduction for students and theatregoers of Chicano theatre, first published in 2000.
The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945
Author: Julia Listengarten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108570267
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108570267
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.
American Drama
Author: Susan Harris Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521032423
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revisionist study of the cultural neglect of American drama.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521032423
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revisionist study of the cultural neglect of American drama.
American Drama and the Postmodern
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description