Author : Richard Eyre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780747552543
An authoritative, spirited account of the history of twentieth century theatre by two of its most distinguished practitioners.
Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781559361873
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN :
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.
Author : Robert A Schanke
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809327478
Composed of sixteen essays and fifteen illustrations, Angels in the American Theater explores not only how donors became angels but also their backgrounds, motivations, policies, limitations, support, and successes and failures.
Author : Theresa Saxon
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0748654097
This book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.
Author : Lloyd Suh
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 33,39 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 : Mary C. Henderson
Publisher : New York : H.N. Abrams
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Though expensive, this account gives an excellent history and a stunning collection of photographs.
Author : Christopher Shinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350146463
“Its brilliance lies in the way Shinn marries ideological debate to psychological complexity, shedding light, laser-bright and precise, on the way in which political discourse informs and shapes individual experience.” The Times Election night in the U.S. and things are looking rosy for the Democratic Party as the likely President-elect, his wife, advisors, and twenty-year-old son John Jnr prepare for victory. When controversial photos of John Jnr begin gathering momentum on the internet, his father's advisors are forced into damage limitation leaving father and son to try and reach an agreement. Christopher Shinn's potent play examines religion, freedom of expression and personal responsibility. It premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in September 2008. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Dominic Cooke.
Author : Amanda Giguere
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078646187X
The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France's most prominent female playwrights, are popular both in France and abroad. Despite her commercial success, her plays have often been ignored in academic circles, and few scholars have attempted to explore the mechanics of her playwriting. This text seeks to unpack the essentials of Reza's style and to explore each play as a component of Reza's theatrical oeuvre. The result is a fuller understanding of her theatrical poetics and her development as an artist.
Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0809080583
Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.
