Author: Peter GilseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Catalogue of the Collection of the Late Peter Gilsey ...
Author: Peter GilseyAt this Theatre
Author: Louis BottoPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557835666
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Contains the informal history of forty theatres that were built, as either legitimate houses or movie palaces and that are currently operating as legitimate theatres"--p. xiii.
Catalogue of the Collection of A. Toedteberg ... Dramatic and Other Illustrations ...
Author: Augustus ToedtebergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Playbill
Author: The Drama of Celebrity
Author: Sharon MarcusPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable. Drawing on scrapbooks, personal diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial photography, and speedy new forms of travel. Whether you love celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times.
The Playbill of Alpha Psi Omega
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College and school drama
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Junius Brutus Booth
Author: Stephen M. ArcherPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809385929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
In this, the first thoroughly researched scholarly biography of British actor Junius Brutus Booth, Stephen M. Archer reveals Booth to have been an artist of considerable range and a man of sensitivity and intellect. Archer provides a clear account of Booth’s professional and personal life and places him in relationship to his contemporaries, particularly Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. From 1817 to 1852 Junius Brutus Booth toured throughout North America, enjoying a reputation as the most distinguished Shakespearean tragedian on the American continent. Still, he yearned for success on the British stage, a goal he never attained. His public image as a drunken, dangerous lunatic obscured a private life filled with the richness of a close and loyal family. The worldwide fame assured for the Booth family of actors by John Wilkes Booth’s bone-shattering leap from the President’s box had eluded Junius Brutus Booth throughout his lifelong exile in America. But from that event until today, no American family of actors has stimulated such scrutiny as the Booths. Eight years of research, pursuing Booth from Amsterdam to San Francisco, has resulted in an accurate, fascinating narrative that both records and illuminates the actor’s life.
The Playbill Broadway Yearbook
Author: Robert ViagasPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557837189
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
(Playbill Broadway Yearbook). This second edition of The Playbill Broadway Yearbook has a chapter for each of the 71 Broadway shows that were running between June 2005 and May 2006, including "alumni" pages for shows held over from previous seasons. In addition, every show has a correspondent who records the special moments and relationships that develop during rehearsals and the run. Actor hangouts, most memorable ad-lib, celebrity visitors, and the record number of cell phone rings during a performance are among the information recorded. An insider Events section reports on such annual milestones as The Tony Awards, Gypsy of the Year, Broadway Bares, and the annual Broadway softball championship in Central Park Once again, in addition to all the headshots of all the actors who appeared in Playbill , the book includes photos of producers, writers, designers, stage managers, stagehands and musicians. The goal is to include as many of the faces who worked on Broadway as possible. As a special treat, the Yearbook includes photos of opening night curtain calls from many shows. This is a book no Broadway buff will want to be without.
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
British Drama of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Frederick BurwickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110711165X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Frederick Burwick reveals how the most volatile developments in British drama from the 1790s to 1830s took place in the industrial provinces.