Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Theatre Magazine
Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Theatre Magazine
Author: Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: DeAnna M. Toten BeardPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810872676
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a 'renaissance' in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of 'little theatres'_groups around the country with artistic aspirations and local commitment that would become the models for the American regional theatre movement later in the century. In the first five years of Theatre Arts Magazine are the keys to understanding the progressive movement for a modern American theatre: the tension between commercial and non-commercial theatre, the yearning for more than realistic scenery, and the call for an 'authentic' American voice in playwriting. Publishing articles, photographs, and drawings by modernist stage designers, Cheney helped popularize the New Stagecraft and elevated the identity of the American scenic designer from a craftsperson to an artist. As progressives around the country read Theatre Arts Magazine, Cheney's assessment of the sins of American commercial theatre and the plan for its salvation eventually became the convictions of a generation. Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine: Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921 enriches understanding of a critical period in American history and illuminates major issues of 20th century theatre and drama. Author DeAnna Toten Beard gives a brief history of the magazine, biographical information about Cheney, and an explanation of his philosophy of modernist theatre. Each chapter of the book considers a different topic relevant to Cheney's magazine, and selected articles are enhanced by full notations. This collection will help readers understand the dynamic nature of the discourse on modernism in America in the World War I era and, by extension, may even encourage fresh considerations about our contemporary stage.
The Theatre
Author: The 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.
Players Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College and school drama
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Life
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
At 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.
The Group Theatre
Author: Helen Krich ChinoyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137294604
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy.
Theatre Blogging
Author: Megan VaughanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350068837
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this epic history-cum-anthology, Megan Vaughan tells the story of the theatre blogosphere from the dawn of the carefully crafted longform post to today's digital newsletters and social media threads. Contextualising the key debates of fifteen years of theatre history, and featuring the writings of over 40 theatre bloggers, Theatre Blogging brings past and present practitioners into conversation with one another. Starting with Encore Theatre Magazine and Chris Goode in London, George Hunka and Laura Axelrod in New York, Jill Dolan at Princeton University, and Alison Croggon in Melbourne, the work of these influential early adopters is considered alongside those who followed them. Vaughan explores issues that have affected both arts journalism and the theatre industry, profiling the activist bloggers arguing for broader representation and better working conditions, highlighting the innovative dramaturgical practices that have been developed and piloted by bloggers, and offering powerful insights into the precarious systems of labour and economics in which these writers exist. She concludes by considering current threats to the theatre blogosphere, and how the form continues to evolve in response to them.