American Theatre A Chronicle Of Comedy And Drama 1914 1930
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| Author | : Gerald Bordman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780195090789 |
The American Theatre series discusses every Broadway production chronologically--show by show and season by season. It offers plot summaries, production details, names of leading actors and actresses--the roles they played, as well as any special or unusual aspects of individual shows. This second volume in the series, covers what is probably the richest period in American theater, the years 1914 through 1930. Bordman includes most of Eugene O'Neill's work, along with playwrights as diverse as Elmer Rice and George Kaufman. Among the era's stars one finds John and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell, and Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt. Considering the sheer number of productions, American theater climbed to its all-time high in the 1920s; by mid-decade, nearly 300 new plays appeared on Broadway each year. America saw more theatrical activity--in every sense of the word-- than any time before or since.
| Author | : James Fisher |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 618 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : American drama |
| ISBN | : 0810868849 |
"The period of 1880 to 1929 is the richest theater era in American history, certainly in the number of plays produced and significant artists, as well as in the centrality of theater in the lives of Americans. As the impact of European modernism gradually seeped into American theater during the 1880s and 1890s, more traditional forms of theater gave way to futurism, symbolism, surrealism, and expressionism. Such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry, and George S. Kaufman ushered in the golden age of American drama." "The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism focuses on legitimate drama, both as influenced by modernism in Europe and by the popular entertainment that also enlivened the era. This is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on plays, music, playwrights, performers, producers, critics, architects, designers, and costumes." --Book Jacket.
| Author | : Andrew Davis |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0271035781 |
"Traces the history of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia from its founding in 1809. Documents the productions and players at the theater, and the difficulties it has faced from economic crises, changing tastes, and competition from new media"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Jackson R. Bryer |
| Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
| Total Pages | : 2466 |
| Release | : 2015-04-22 |
| Genre | : American drama |
| ISBN | : 1438140762 |
Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
| Author | : David Krasner |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 600 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1405137347 |
This Companion provides an original and authoritative surveyof twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of thebest scholars and critics in the field. Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion ofworks by previously marginalized playwrights Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as TennesseeWilliams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein Allows readers to make new links between particular plays andplaywrights Examines the movements that framed the century, such as theHarlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the soloperformances of the 1980s and 1990s Situates American drama within larger discussions aboutAmerican ideas and culture
| Author | : Thomas S. Hischak |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2014-01-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786492791 |
The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children's books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.
| Author | : Thomas A. Bogar |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2015-06-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1476606803 |
Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.
| Author | : Michael Manheim |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1998-09-24 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521556453 |
Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O'Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day's Journey Into Night.
| Author | : L. W. Conolly |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 2022-08-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 3031042417 |
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was America’s most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outnumbered only by Shakespeare. Forty-four of Shaw’s plays were staged in America before his death, eight more posthumously. Eleven of the productions were world premieres. Bernard Shaw on the American Stage tells the story of the fifty-two premieres, which, apart from a few fragments, is his total dramatic oeuvre. The book also includes, again for the first time, production data and concise overviews of dozens of the most notable American revivals of the plays, from the 1890s to the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. Illustrations—production photographs, programmes, theatre buildings, playbills, actors’ studio portraits— inform the study throughout.
| Author | : Shannon Steen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-04-30 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0230297404 |
An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.
