Author: Sarah SchulmanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322641
Category : AIDS (Disease) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Stagestruck: theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America.
Stagestruck
Author: Sarah SchulmanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322641
Category : AIDS (Disease) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Stagestruck: theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America.
Stagestruck
Author: Tomie dePaolaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101653833
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Tommy is so excited. His first-grade class is putting on a play about Peter Rabbit, and he’s sure to get the starring role. But in his enthusiasm, Tommy talks too much in class, so his teacher decides that he should play Mopsy instead—and Mopsy doesn’t have any lines! Tommy is disappointed until he gets an idea. If he can’t be the star, he can still get the audience’s attention by reacting to everything Peter Rabbit does. But how will Tommy’s mother and teacher react to his performance?
Curtain Up
Author: Lisa FiedlerPublisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1633621367
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
After 12-year-old Anya is cut from her middle school soccer team, she decides to pursue her true passion, which is theater. With the help of her sister and new friend Austin, Anya puts together a kids’ summer theater troupe (The Random Farms Kids’ Theater), recruiting area kids as actors and crew members. Acting as director, Anya has to navigate the ups and downs of a showbiz life, including preparing scripts, finding a venue, and handling ticket sales, not to mention calming the actors’ insecurities and settling conflicts. It’s a lot of responsibility for a 12-year-old. Will their first show ever get off the ground? This series is closely based on the real-life experience of Anya Wallach, who began a summer theater “camp” in her parents’ basement when she was just sixteen years old. Today, Random Farms has launched the careers of many of today’s youngest stars on Broadway.
Stagestruck Filmmaker
Author: David MayerPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298406
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades. Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledged artist of American film. Birth of a Nation in particular demonstrates the degree to which he was influenced by the racist justifications and distorting interpretations of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Moving through the major phases of Griffith’s career in chapters organized around key films or groups of films, Mayer provides a mesmerizing account of the American stage and cinema in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century. Griffith’s relationship to the theatre was intricate, complex, and enduring. Long recognized as the dominant creative figure of American motion pictures, throughout twenty-six years of making more than five hundred films he pillaged, adapted, reshaped, revitalized, preserved, and extolled. By historicizing his representations of race, ethnicity, and otherness, Mayer places Griffith within an overall template of American life in the years when film rivaled and then surpassed the theatre in popularity.
Stagestruck
Author: Cynthia ThomasonPublisher: Five Star Trade
ISBN: 9781410402042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Small-town librarian Gwen Barlow gets more than she expected when she inherits her Uncle Eli's lavish turn-of-the-century showboat, the Jubilee Palace. Gwen, her younger brother, Preston, and their mother, Lillian, leave their Ohio home for the Mississippi River, only to discover that the Jubilee is in serious financial straits, Eli's death by a falling theater backdrop is under suspicion, and the showboat family of actors and musicians are all suspects. Gwen's adventure begins in the bawdy river town of Hickory Bend, Missouri, where she discovers several citizens who also have reasons for wanting to see the flamboyant but irresponsible Eli Willoughby done in. Her plans to move the monstrous wedding cake with a pilot house upriver to become a profit-making venture are thwarted when the local constable declares Eli's demise a murder and orders the Jubilee to remain in Hickory Bend until the crime is solved. Gwen must take on the task of amateur sleuthing to bring the riddle of her uncle's death to a close. Her investigation leads her into a terrifying encounter, which nearly results in her own death and that of the Jubilee's delicate inginue. One by one, the suspects drop faster than an Act Three curtain until Gwen unravels the mystery of death and deception in the floating theater.Cynthia Thomason lives in Florida.
Careers for the Stagestruck & Other Dramatic Types
Author: Lucia MauroPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 007144243X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The inspiring Careers for You series shows career explorers how to examine the job market through the unique lens of their own interests--and find new happiness in the workplace. Vital information on each job includes: The latest data on training and education Stories of success from each field Advice on assessing job skills and marketing them well in an interview Expert advice on finding and getting the job Resources for further career exploration in each specific field
Stagestruck
Author: Burt HirschfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Stagestruck
Author: Lauren R. ClayPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801468205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Stagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution. During this era more than eighty provincial and colonial cities celebrated the inauguration of their first public playhouses. These theaters emerged as the most prominent urban cultural institutions in prerevolutionary France, becoming key sites for the articulation and contestation of social, political, and racial relationships. Combining rich description with nuanced analysis based on extensive archival evidence, Lauren R. Clay illuminates the wide-ranging consequences of theater’s spectacular growth for performers, spectators, and authorities in cities throughout France as well as in the empire’s most important Atlantic colony, Saint-Domingue. Clay argues that outside Paris the expansion of theater came about through local initiative, civic engagement, and entrepreneurial investment, rather than through actions or policies undertaken by the royal government and its agents. Reconstructing the business of theatrical production, she brings to light the efforts of a wide array of investors, entrepreneurs, directors, and actors—including women and people of color—who seized the opportunities offered by commercial theater to become important agents of cultural change. Portraying a vital and increasingly consumer-oriented public sphere beyond the capital, Stagestruck overturns the long-held notion that cultural change flowed from Paris and the royal court to the provinces and colonies. This deeply researched book will appeal to historians of Europe and the Atlantic world, particularly those interested in the social and political impact of the consumer revolution and the forging of national and imperial cultural networks. In addition to theater and literary scholars, it will attract the attention of historians and sociologists who study business, labor history, and the emergence of the modern French state.
Showstopper
Author: Lisa FiedlerPublisher: Stagestruck
ISBN: 9781585369263
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Book 2 in the Stage Struck middle-grade series opens just days after the successful first performance by the Random Farm Kids' Theater troupe. Now, founder and director 12-year-old Anya Wallach turns her attention to their second show. But trouble rears its head when their barn venue is jeopardized. Is the second show doomed before they even start rehearsal?
Stagestruck
Author: Peter LoveseyPublisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569479488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"Lovesey is a wizard at mixing character-driven comedy with realistic-to-grim suspense. And in a writing career spanning four decades, he has created a stylish and varied body of work." —The Wall Street Journal Pop diva, Clarion Calhoun, has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face. When tainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers point to her makeup artist. Detective Peter Diamond investigates when the makeup artist is found dead, pushed from a catwalk far above the stage. As Diamond digs deeper, he uncovers rivalries among the cast and crew and is forced to confront his own mysterious and deep-seated theatre phobia to find the killer.