Author: Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472043
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
American Musical Theatre
Author: Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
Dramas from the American Theatre
Author: Richard Moody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three Hundred Years of American Drama and Theatre
Author: Garff B. Wilson
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Combining the history of playwriting and the development of acting, stagecraft and management, this edition includes recent developments in the realm of American theatre up to 1980. As in the first edition it features "imaginary visits" to the theatres of each era from Colonial times to the present-- from buying a ticket to attending the afterpiece and walking home.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Combining the history of playwriting and the development of acting, stagecraft and management, this edition includes recent developments in the realm of American theatre up to 1980. As in the first edition it features "imaginary visits" to the theatres of each era from Colonial times to the present-- from buying a ticket to attending the afterpiece and walking home.
A History of African American Theatre
Author: Errol G. Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624435
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521624435
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Table of contents
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre
Author: Julia A. Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
Encyclopedia of American Drama
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140762
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2466
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140762
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2466
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
American Drama and the Postmodern
Author:
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621969843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
American Theatre
Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195123470
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780195123470
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century.
A History of Asian American Theatre
Author: Esther Kim Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850517
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850517
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.