Author: Donald C. Mullin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520013919
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Development of the Playhouse
Author: Donald C. Mullin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520013919
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520013919
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Development of the English Playhouse
Author: Richard Leacroft
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780413288202
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780413288202
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street
Author: John P. Harrington
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815631552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Improbably located in the heart of the Jewish ghetto on the Lower East side of Manhattan, the Neighborhood Playhouse and its brief yet influential tenure offers a fascinating story in the annals of theater history. From 1915 to 1927, this progressive theater, along with the better-known Provincetown Players and the Theatre Guild, inaugurated the Little Theater Movement in America. In John P. Harrington’s detailed account of the Neighborhood Playhouse’s remarkable history, readers learn not only about its notable productions but also about its gradual shift in mission and the tensions between art and social work. Harrington traces the playhouse’s long-lasting legacy: it fostered The Neighborhood School of Acting made famous by Sanford Meisner, now the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and it helped spawn the expansive network of community theaters that thrive throughout America today. Well-researched and detailed, this book provides a vital yet often overlooked piece of theater history and a lost key to understanding the growth of theater arts in New York City.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815631552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Improbably located in the heart of the Jewish ghetto on the Lower East side of Manhattan, the Neighborhood Playhouse and its brief yet influential tenure offers a fascinating story in the annals of theater history. From 1915 to 1927, this progressive theater, along with the better-known Provincetown Players and the Theatre Guild, inaugurated the Little Theater Movement in America. In John P. Harrington’s detailed account of the Neighborhood Playhouse’s remarkable history, readers learn not only about its notable productions but also about its gradual shift in mission and the tensions between art and social work. Harrington traces the playhouse’s long-lasting legacy: it fostered The Neighborhood School of Acting made famous by Sanford Meisner, now the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and it helped spawn the expansive network of community theaters that thrive throughout America today. Well-researched and detailed, this book provides a vital yet often overlooked piece of theater history and a lost key to understanding the growth of theater arts in New York City.
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris
Author: Eric Blau
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219057
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORY: The poignant, passionate and profound songs of Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel are brought to vivid theatrical life in this intense musical experience. Brel's legendary romance, humor and moral conviction are evoked simply and directly, with fo
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822219057
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
THE STORY: The poignant, passionate and profound songs of Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel are brought to vivid theatrical life in this intense musical experience. Brel's legendary romance, humor and moral conviction are evoked simply and directly, with fo
What is a Playhouse?
Author: Callan Davies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032138077
Category : Architecture and recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction -- Archetypes -- Multipurpose Spaces -- Crowd Capacities -- Community Hubs -- Businesses -- Coda.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032138077
Category : Architecture and recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction -- Archetypes -- Multipurpose Spaces -- Crowd Capacities -- Community Hubs -- Businesses -- Coda.
Reimagining Shakespeare's Playhouse
Author: Joe Falocco
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842416
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Numerous attempts have been made in the modern and postmodern era to recreate the staging conventions of Shakespeare's theatre, from William Poel to the founders of the New Globe. This volume examines the work of these directors, analyzing their practical successes and failures; it also engages with the ideological critiques of early modern staging advanced by scholars such as W.B. Worthen and Ric Knowles. The author argues that rather than indulging in archaism for its own sake, the movement looked backward in a progressive attempt to address the challenges of the twentieth century. The book begins with a re-examination of the conventional view of Poel as an antiquarian crank. Subsequent chapters are devoted to Harley Granville Barker and Nugent Monck; the author argues that while Barker's major contribution was the dubious achievement of establishing the movement's reputation as an essentially literary phenomenon, Monck took the first tentative steps toward an architectural reimagining of modern performance space, an advance which led to later triumphs in early modern staging. The book than traces the sporadic and irregular development of Tyrone Guthrie's commitment to early modern practices. The final chapter looks at how competing historical theories of playhouse design influenced the construction of the Globe, while the conclusion discusses the ongoing potential of early modern staging in the new millennium.
Inside Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Author: Caseen Gaines
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550229982
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
On the 25th anniversary of the show "Pee-wee's Playhouse," the behind-the-scenes story is being told for the first time by those who experienced it. Complete with an episode guide, biographical information about the cast and key members of the show's creative team, never-before-told anecdotes, and previously unpublished photos.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550229982
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
On the 25th anniversary of the show "Pee-wee's Playhouse," the behind-the-scenes story is being told for the first time by those who experienced it. Complete with an episode guide, biographical information about the cast and key members of the show's creative team, never-before-told anecdotes, and previously unpublished photos.
Polonium in the Playhouse
Author: Linda Carrick Thomas
Publisher: Trillium
ISBN: 9780814213384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest's most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing story of how this most unlikely site in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the most classified portions of the Manhattan Project. Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse was transformed into a polonium processing facility, providing a critical radioactive ingredient for the bomb initiator--the mechanism that triggered a chain reaction. With the help of a Soviet spy working undercover at the site, it was also key to the Soviet Union's atomic bomb program. The work was directed by industrial chemist Charles Allen Thomas who had been chosen by J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves to coordinate Manhattan Project chemistry and metallurgy. As one of the nation's first science administrators, Thomas was responsible for choreographing the plutonium work at Los Alamos and the Project's key laboratories. The elegant glass-roofed building belonged to his wife's family. Weaving Manhattan Project history with the life and work of the scientist, industrial leader and singing-showman Thomas, Polonium in the Playhouse offers a fascinating look at the vast and complicated program that changed world history and introduces the men and women who raced against time to build the initiator for the bomb.
Publisher: Trillium
ISBN: 9780814213384
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest's most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing story of how this most unlikely site in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the most classified portions of the Manhattan Project. Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse was transformed into a polonium processing facility, providing a critical radioactive ingredient for the bomb initiator--the mechanism that triggered a chain reaction. With the help of a Soviet spy working undercover at the site, it was also key to the Soviet Union's atomic bomb program. The work was directed by industrial chemist Charles Allen Thomas who had been chosen by J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves to coordinate Manhattan Project chemistry and metallurgy. As one of the nation's first science administrators, Thomas was responsible for choreographing the plutonium work at Los Alamos and the Project's key laboratories. The elegant glass-roofed building belonged to his wife's family. Weaving Manhattan Project history with the life and work of the scientist, industrial leader and singing-showman Thomas, Polonium in the Playhouse offers a fascinating look at the vast and complicated program that changed world history and introduces the men and women who raced against time to build the initiator for the bomb.
Annual Report
Author: National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to the arts
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to the arts
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Restoration Comedy in Performance
Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An exploration of the ways in which Restoration comedy was performed, using the costume, customs, manners and behaviour of the age as a way of understanding its theatre and drama. It also considers problems encountered in early twentieth century revivals of plays by authors such as Etherege, Dryden, Congreve and Farquhar.