Beyond the Boundaries
Author | : Theodore Shank |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472085354 |
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
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Author | : Theodore Shank |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472085354 |
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
Author | : Vessela S. Warner |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1609386787 |
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well. Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros ̧ca, Ban ̧uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
Author | : Theodore Shank |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780333288832 |
Author | : Dorothy Chansky |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780809326495 |
When movies replaced theater in the early twentieth century, live drama was wide open to reform. A rebellion against commercialism, called the Little Theatre movement, promoted the notion that theatre is a valuable form of self-expression. Composing Ourselves argues that the movement was a national phenomenon that resulted in lasting ideas for serious theatre that are now ordinary parts of the American cultural landscape.
Author | : Gerald M. Berkowitz |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781557832573 |
(Applause Books). In 1950, the terms "American theatre" and "Broadway" were virtually synonymous. As the new century begins, Broadway is only a small part of a vital, creative, and varied national theatrical scene. This lively and authoritative book combines a history of the many changes the spread of regional and non-profit theatres, the rise of Off-Broadway and other alternatives, the decline of Broadway with an analysis of their implications and the problems they have brought, a look at new audiences, the causes of failure, and the unexpected complications of success. Hardcover.
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2007-09-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521835380 |
New and updated encyclopedic guide to American theatre, from its earliest history to the present.
Author | : Nancy Yunhwa Rao |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2017-01-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0252099001 |
Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre–World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521669597 |
Volume three of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.
Author | : Kathleen Cioffi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134374453 |
The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its origins, in the 1950s, through to its decline in the late 1980s.
Author | : Lloyd Suh |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : 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.