Author: Stefan BrechtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Original Theatre of the City of New York
Author: Stefan BrechtA History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901
Author: Thomas Allston BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Original Theatre of the City of New York from the Mid-60. to the Mid-7 0
Author: Stefan BrechtThe Chinese Lady
Author: Lloyd SuhPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822239906
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
The Original Theatre of the City of New York
Author: Stefan BrechtThe Original Theatre of the City of New York
Author: Robert WilsonNew York’s Yiddish Theater
Author: Edna NahshonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231541074
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.
The City and the Theatre
Author: Mary C. HendersonPublisher:
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Mary Henderson's definitive history of theatre in New York City spans over three centuries and relates the development of theatre to the social, political, economic, and cultural climate of the time.
Author: Stefan Brecht
Author: Stefan Brecht