Author: William WinterPublisher: Irvington Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The Life of David Belasco
Author: William WinterPublisher: Irvington Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The Life of David Belasco
Author: William WinterGreat North American Stage Directors Volume 1
Author: Cheryl BlackPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350189332
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft and their impact on theatrical collaboration. The essays in this volume explore how these directors established and exploited Broadway as the epicentre of theatre in the United States, blended the role of producer and director, and managed the tensions between commercial success and artistic ambition. The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.
The Life of David Belasco, Vol. 1
Author: William WinterPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528283519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life of David Belasco, Vol. 1: 1886-1917 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. 3
Author: Historical Dictionary of American Theater
Author: James FisherPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 081087833X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
Author: Sidney Jackson JowersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136746420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From San Francisco Eastward
Author: Carolyn Grattan EichinPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1948908379
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation’s most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West’s hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. Using the vagaries of the West’s notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. From San Francisco Eastward is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 1, Realism and Naturalism
Author: J. L. StyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296281
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.