Humana Festival 2003
Author : Tanya Palmer
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9781575253404
Author : Tanya Palmer
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9781575253404
Author : Tanya Palmer
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781575253404
Author : Marcia D. Salvatore
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama festivals
ISBN :
Author : Jeffrey Ullom
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0809387085
Far from the glittering lights of Broadway, in a city known more for its horse racing than its artistic endeavors, an annual festival in Louisville, Kentucky, has transformed the landscape of the American theater. The Actors Theatre of Louisville—the Tony Award–winning state theater of Kentucky—in 1976 successfully created what became the nation's most respected new-play festival, the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville examines the success of the festival and theater’s Pulitzer Prize–winning productions that for decades have reflected new-play trends in regional theaters and on Broadway—the result of the calculated decisions, dogged determination, and good luck of its producing director, Jon Jory. The volume details how Actors Theatre of Louisville was established, why the Humana Festival became successful in a short time, and how the event’s success has been maintained by the Louisville venue that has drawn theater critics from around the world for more than thirty years. Author Jeffrey Ullom charts the theater’s early struggles to survive, the battles between troupe leaders, and the desperate measures to secure financial support from the Louisville community. He examines how Jory established and expanded the festival to garner extraordinary local support, attract international attention, and entice preeminent American playwrights to premier their works in the Kentucky city. In The Humana Festival, Ullom provides a broad view of new-play development within artistic, administrative, and financial contexts. He analyzes the relationship between Broadway and regional theaters, outlining how the Humana Festival has changed the process of new-play development and even Broadway’s approach to discovering new work, and also highlights the struggles facing regional theaters across the country as they strive to balance artistic ingenuity and economic viability. Offering a rare look at the annual event, The Humana Festival provides the first insider’s view of the extraordinary efforts that produced the nation’s most successful new-play festival.
Author : Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel
Publisher : Playscripts, Inc.
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0970904614
A collection of all ten scripts from the 2006 Humana Festival of New American Plays.
Author : Tanya Palmer
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN :
The Humana Festival of New American Plays is the center of the nation's playwriting universe (The Miami Herald). It is an event whose impact has enlivened and enriched stages in the United States and around the world (The Irish Times). This year's plays have been selected from more than 500 script submissions for production and these plays feature some of the most talented and adventurous playwrights writing for the American stage today. Includes After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo, The Ruby Sunrise by Rinne Groff, Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land by Kristen Greenridge, Kid-Simple, a radio play in the flesh by Jordan Harrison, At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka, and Tallgrass Gothic by Melanie Marnich.
Author : Amy Wegener
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Adrien-Alice Lawson Hansel
Publisher : Playscripts, Inc.
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0970904630
This collection includes every play performed at the 2007 Humana Festival of New American Plays.
Author : Michael Bigelow Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780739413197
Author : Scott T. Cummings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 29,32 MB
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000533492
The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather combines original writings from Les Waters with short essays by a wide range of his collaborators, creating a personal and multi-faceted portrait of an influential director, revered mentor, and inspirational theatre artist. The book begins with a critical introduction of Waters’s work, followed by essays written by a wide range of Waters's collaborators over the past four decades. These essays are framed by shorter pieces of writing by Waters himself: reflections, inspirations, observations, and personal anecdotes. At the heart of this book lies the notion that the director’s central position in theatrical production is defined by collaboration and that a study of directing should take into account how a director works with playwrights, designers, actors, stage managers, and dramaturgs to turn artistic vision into concrete reality on stage. An insightful resource for early career or student directors in theatre programs, The Theatre of Les Waters sheds light on the art of theatre directing by exploring the work of a major theatre artist whose accomplished career sits at the heart of American theatre in the 21st century. Drawing on aspects of memoir, case study, interview, miscellany, biography, and criticism, this is also an enlightening read for anyone with an interest in how theatre artists bring their creative vision to life.