Eight Women of the American Stage

Eight Women of the American Stage
Author: Roy Harris
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A highly readable, informative book about the professional lives of some of the foremost actresses working in theatre and film today.

An Actress Prepares

An Actress Prepares
Author: Rosemary Malague
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136503900

'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been given to the experience of the student actress: What happens to women in Method actor training?' An Actress Prepares is the first book to interrogate Method acting from a specifically feminist perspective. Rose Malague addresses "the Method" not only with much-needed critical distance, but also the crucial insider's view of a trained actor. Case studies examine the preeminent American teachers who popularized and transformed elements of Stanislavsky’s System within the U.S.—Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, and Hagen— by analyzing and comparing their related but distinctly different approaches. This book confronts the sexism that still exists in actor training and exposes the gender biases embedded within the Method itself. Its in-depth examination of these Stanislavskian techniques seeks to reclaim Method acting from its patriarchal practices and to empower women who act. 'I've been waiting for someone to write this book for years: a thorough-going analysis and reconsideration of American approaches to Stanislavsky from a feminist perspective ... lively, intelligent, and engaging.' – Phillip Zarrilli, University of Exeter 'Theatre people of any gender will be transformed by Rose Malague’s eye-opening study An Actress Prepares... This book will be useful to all scholars and practitioners determined to make gender equity central to how they hone their craft and their thinking.' – Jill Dolan, Princeton University

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts
Author: Liz Sonneborn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: United States
ISBN: 1438107900

Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438129661

Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.

Female Bodies on the American Stage

Female Bodies on the American Stage
Author: J. Mobley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137428945

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.

Stage Management

Stage Management
Author: Lawrence Stern
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317343905

Revered as the authoritative resource for stage management, this text offers students a practical manual on how to stage manage in all theater environments. Rich with practical resources — checklists, diagrams, examples, forms and step-by-step directions — Stage Management eschews excessive discussion of philosophy and gets right to the essential materials and processes of putting on a production. In addition to sharing his own expertise, Stern has gathered practical advice from working stage managers of Broadway, off-Broadway, touring companies, regional, community, and 99-seat Equity waiver theaters.

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
Author: Micki Grant
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1972
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780573680809

"This dynamic mixture of rock, calypso and ballads features a dozen singer-dancers in 20 numbers. In revue-style format, Don't Bother Me ... explores the African American experience through vibrant song and dance."--Publisher

Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage

Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Author: Helene P. Foley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520283872

This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage
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.