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38 produkter
Teaching Performance Studies
Av Nathan Stucky, Cynthia Wimmer
Häftad, 2002
442 kr
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An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. This collection of 18 essays by scholars and educators seeks to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to …
Composing Ourselves
The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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Charting the origins of serious theatre, drama pedagogy, and the nonprofit model. The Little Theatre movement prompted and promoted the college theatre major, the inclusion of theatre pedagogy in K-12 education, prototypes for the nonprofit model, and the notion that theatre is a valuable form of …
Unfinished Show Business
Broadway Musicals As Works-in-process
Av Bruce Kirle
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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Pursues the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre. In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the …
Broadway's Bravest Woman
Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell
Av Jerry Dickey, Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez
Inbunden, 2006
746 kr
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Expanding critical awareness of a feminist writer's neglected accomplishments. This collection of plays, fiction, and journalistic essays provides an engaging portrait of one of America's most innovative yet neglected feminists. ""Broadway's Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell"" is …
Entertaining the Nation
American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Häftad, 2007
495 kr
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In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. ""Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the …
Hanlon Brothers
From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833-1931
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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This book helps you in restoring a lost legacy. The Hanlons - a family of six brothers from Manchester, England - were one of the world's premiere performing troupes in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet their legacy has been mostly forgotten. Mark Cosdon carefully documents the …
Systemic Dramaturgy
A Handbook for the Digital Age
Av Michael Mark Chemers, Mike Sell
Häftad, 2022
427 kr
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Working theatrically with technologySystemic Dramaturgy offers an invigorating, practical look at the daunting cultural problems of the digital age as they relate to performance. Authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell reject the incompatibility of theatre with robots, digital media, and …
American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism
Av David Bisaha
Häftad, 2022
456 kr
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An inclusive history of the professionalization of American scenic designThe figure of the American theatrical scenic designer first emerged in the early twentieth century. As productions moved away from standardized, painted scenery and toward individualized scenic design, the demand for talented …
Theatre of Sabina Berman
The ""Agony of Ecstasy"" and Other Plays
Inbunden, 2002
526 kr
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The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays introduces and makes accessible to an English-speaking audience the work of the contemporary Mexican playwright Sabina Berman. The book contains translations of the four plays that established Berman's career: The Agony of Ecstasy, …
Theatre of Sabina Berman
The ""Agony of Ecstasy"" and Other Plays
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays introduces and makes accessible to an English-speaking audience the work of the contemporary Mexican playwright Sabina Berman. The book contains translations of the four plays that established Berman's career: The Agony of Ecstasy, …
Staging America
Cornerstone and Community-based Theater
Inbunden, 2003
529 kr
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This captivating study maps a history and theory of community-based theater in the United States through the Cornerstone Theater Company. Detailing how the performance-making process contributes to an ongoing negotiation of American identity, Sonja Kuftinec investigates community-based theater to …
Staging America
Cornerstone and Community-based Theater
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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Examines Cornerstone and community-based theater in the United States. Now in paperback, ""Staging America: Cornerstone and Community-Based Theater"" details how one theater company's performance-making process has contributed to an ongoing negotiation of American identity. Sonja Kuftinec …
Women in Turmoil
Inbunden, 2003
526 kr
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In this first publication of six plays by the uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke rescues lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of obscurity. Often autobiographical, always rife with gender struggle, and decidedly …
Women in Turmoil
Six Plays by Mercedes De Acosta
Av Southern Illinois University Press, Robert A. Schanke
Häftad, 2008
493 kr
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This book rediscovers the work of a gifted playwright and lesbian rights icon.With the publication of six plays by the uninhibited author, poet, and playwright Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968), theater historian Robert A. Schanke has rescued these lost theatrical writings from the dusty margins of …
Stage, Page, Scandals, and Vandals
William E. Burton and Nineteenth Century American Theatre
Inbunden, 2004
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This biography of William E. Burton explores Burton's diary, letters, reviews, and various reminiscences to reveal the personal and professional lives of the nineteenth-century actor/manager and his role in American literary history.
That Furious Lesbian
The Story of Mercedes De Acosta
Häftad, 2004
455 kr
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Now available in paperback, ""That Furious Lesbian"": The Story of Mercedes de Acosta is the first book-length biography of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-twentieth-century author, poet, and playwright. Theater historian Robert A. Schanke adroitly mines lost archival materials and mixes in his …
Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory
Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala
Av E. J. Westlake, Robert A. Schanke
Inbunden, 2005
720 kr
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Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory: Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala adds to a growing and timely body of work on nationalist drama. Examining important twentieth-century plays that few people have written about in English, E. J. Westlake analyzes the phenomenon of nation as …
Words at Play
Creative Writing and Dramaturgy
Häftad, 2005
445 kr
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Compiles dramaturgical essays with practical writing tips. In this encompassing and accessible introduction to dramaturgy, Felicia Hardison Londre promotes the dramaturgical essay as both an art form and as a method for improving creative writing skills. ""Words at Play: Creative Writing and …
Messiah of the New Technique
John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937
Inbunden, 2006
720 kr
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Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937 is a critical and political biography and a cultural and social history that focuses on Lawson's career in the theatre. Using a materialist methodology, Jonathan L. Chambers emphasizes the evolution and …
Angels in the American Theater
Patrons, Patronage and Philanthropy
Av Stephen D. Berwind, Melanie Blood m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
442 kr
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Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy examines the significant roles that theater patrons have played in shaping and developing theater in the United States. Because box office income rarely covers the cost of production, other sources are vital. Angels - financial …
Performing Loss
Rebuilding Community Through Theater and Writing
Av Jodi Kanter
Häftad, 2007
355 kr
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In ""Performing Loss: Rebuilding Community through Theater and Writing"", author Jodi Kanter explores opportunities for creativity and growth within our collective responses to grief. ""Performing Loss"" provides teachers, students, and others interested in performance with strategies for reading, …
Contemporary Latina/o Theater
Wrighting Ethnicity
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2008
526 kr
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In ""Contemporary Latina/o Theater"", Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Pinero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, Jose Rivera, and Cherrie …
Humana Festival
The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2008
526 kr
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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 - …
Unfriendly Witnesses
Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2008
471 kr
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Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era ""witch hunts"" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, …
Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik
Scene Design and the American Theatre
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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This title examines the life and achievements of a theater legend. ""Rediscovering Mordecai Gorelik"" explores the life and work of the pioneering scene designer whose career spanned decades in American theater. Anne Fletcher's insightful volume draws intriguing parallels and contrasts between …
Spectacle of Suffering
Clara Morris on the American Stage
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 2009
485 kr
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This book explores the life and career of actress, author, and feminist Clara Morris.Once called 'America's greatest actress,' renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. ""A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American …
American Political Plays After 9/11
Av Allan Havis
Häftad, 2010
380 kr
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American Political Plays after 9/11 is a diverse collection of bold, urgent, and provocative plays that respond to the highly charged, post 9/11 political landscape. Sparked by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequently fueled by a series of controversial events—the Iraq war, the …
Gambler’s Instinct
The Story of Broadway Producer Cheryl Crawford
Häftad, 2010
351 kr
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Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford (1902–1986) declared in her 1977 autobiography, “The theatre has been my life.” Crawford was notoriously circumspect about her private life, and only now, with Milly S. Barranger’s insightful biography, is her full story revealed. A major Broadway producer in an …
Shadowed Cocktails
The Plays of Philip Barry from Paris Bound to the Philadelphia Story
Häftad, 2010
623 kr
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An important and prolific playwright, Philip Barry wrote hit plays such as The Philadelphia Story and Holiday. However, he has been largely forgotten and no book-length analysis of his work has appeared in more than forty years. With this book, Donald R. Anderson rescues the playwright from …
Richard Barr
The Playwright's Producer
Häftad, 2013
574 kr
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Richard Barr: The Playwright’s Producer is a biography of producer Richard Barr (1917-1989), who worked on Broadway, off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and off-off-Broadway at the Playwrights Unit. Crespy’s research material includes nearly sixty interviews with actors, directors, designers, …
