Author: Weldon B. DurhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
American Theatre Companies
Author: Weldon B. DurhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
American Theatre Companies
Author: Weldon B. DurhamAmerican Theatre Companies, 1931-1986
Author: Weldon B. DurhamPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
A series providing essential facts about resident acting companies in the United States spanning from 1749 through 1986. Information includes the company's location, history, personnel, and repertory,
American Theatre Companies, 1931-present
Author: American Theatre Companies: American theatre companies, 1888-1930
Author: Weldon B. DurhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A series providing essential facts about resident acting companies in the United States spanning from 1749 through 1986. Information includes the company's location, history, personnel, and repertory,
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521651790
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521564441
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with a historical survey as introduction, a bibliography of major sources published since the first edition, and a biographical index covering over 3,200 individuals mentioned in the text."--BOOK JACKET.
American Drama of the Twentieth Century
Author: Gerald M. BerkowitzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131790172X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.
American Theatre Companies, 1888-1930
Author: Weldon B. DurhamPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 0313253595
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A series providing essential facts about resident acting companies in the United States spanning from 1749 through 1986. Information includes the company's location, history, personnel, and repertory,
The American Stage
Author: Ron EnglePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521412384
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.