Author: James M. BarriskillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager ... [by Francis Courtney Wemyss
Author: James M. BarriskillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager
Author: Francis Courtney WemyssPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Twenty-Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager
Author: Francis Courtney WemyssPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354167779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager
Author: Francis Courtney WemyssPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre
Author: Thomas A. BogarPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331968406X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the “sporting man” of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.
Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers
Author: Jane K. CurryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313031096
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Many women held positions of great responsibility and power in the United States during the 19th century as theatre managers: managing stock companies, owning or leasing theatres, hiring actors and other personnel, selecting plays for production, directing rehearsals, supervising all production details, and promoting their dramatic offerings. Competing in risky business ventures, these women were remarkable for defying societal norms that restricted career opportunities for women. The activities of more than 50 such women are discussed in Nineteenth-Century American Women Theatre Managers, beginning with an account of 15 pioneering women managers who were all managing theatres before 24 December 1853, when Catherine Sinclair, often incorrectly identified as the first woman theatre manager in the United States, opened her theatre in San Francisco.
Old Drury of Philadelphia
Author: Reese D. JamesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Includes the diary or daily account book of William Burke Wood, comanager with William Warren of the Chestnut Street Theatre, familiarly known as Old Drury.
Staged Readings
Author: Michael D'AlessandroPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472133179
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America
Melodrama Unveiled
Author: David GrimstedPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520059962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
David Grimsted's Melodrama Unveiled explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic settings that gave them life, Grimsted offers us rich descriptions of the interaction of performers, audiences, critics, managers, and stage mechanics. Because these plays had to appeal immediately and directly to diverse audiences, they provide dramatic clues to the least common denominator of social values and concerns. In considering both the context and content of popular culture, Grimsted's book suggests how theater reflected the rapidly changing society of antebellum America.
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.