The City and the Theatre
Author : Mary C. Henderson
Publisher :
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Author : Mary C. Henderson
Publisher :
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Author : Jen Harvie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230364675
How can an understanding of theatre in the city help us make sense of urban social experience? Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. The book evaluates both material conditions (such as architecture) and performative practices (such as urban activism) to argue that both these categories contribute to the complex economies and ecologies of theatre and performance in an increasingly urbanised world. Foreword by Tim Etchells.
Author : Mary C. Henderson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Mary Henderson's definitive history of theatre in New York City spans over three centuries and relates the development of theatre to the social, political, economic, and cultural climate of the time.
Author : Michael McKinnie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802091210
City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences.
Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0307807444
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."
Author : Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, Frank Rich, Samuel G. Freedman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1617746185
(Applause Books). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and lyrics of one of the longest running shows in Broadway history with a preface by Samuel Freedman, an introduction by Frank Rich and lots of photos from the stage production.
Author : Lloyd Suh
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822239906
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Author : J. K. Rowling
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780751565362
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345515668
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE SEATTLE TIMES, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. BONUS: This edition contains a The City & The City discussion guide and excerpts from China Miéville's Kraken and Embassytown.
Author : Matthew Lopez
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0573697094
Drama / Characters: 3 male It is April, 1865. The Civil War is over and throughout the south, slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated. Into the chaos of war-torn Richmond comes Caleb DeLeon, a young Confederate officer who has been severely wounded. He finds his family's home in ruins and abandoned, save for two former slaves, Simon and John, who wait in the empty house for the family's return. As the three