The Best Plays Theater Yearbook

The Best Plays Theater Yearbook
Author: Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879103460

Covers plays produced in New York, theater awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as the editors' choices of the ten best plays.

The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992

The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2000-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781557831477

(Applause Books). The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1991-1992 season, including: Conversations With My Father * Crazy for You * Dancing at Lughnasa * The Extra Man * Fires in the Mirror * Lips Together, Teeth Apart * Mad Forest * Marvin's Room * Sight Unseen * Two Trains Running. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States, the Off-Off-Broadway season, the various awards, and more. Also includes lots of photos from the productions.

The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990-1991

The Applause-Best Plays Theater Yearbook, 1990-1991
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1992-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557831071

Gathers highlights from the season's ten best plays and information on plays produced in the United States

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Peter Nagy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1082
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136118128

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre:Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic Profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136119000

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

Shakespeare in East Asian Education

Shakespeare in East Asian Education
Author: Sarah Olive
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 303064796X

This book offers fresh, critical insights into Shakespeare in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. It recognises that Shakespeare in East Asian education is not confined to the classroom or lecture hall but occurs on diverse stages. It covers multiple aspects of education: policy, pedagogy, practice, and performance. Beyond researchers in these areas, this book is for those teaching and learning Shakespeare in the region, those teaching and learning English as an Additional Language anywhere in the world, and those making educational policies, resources, or theatre productions with young people in East Asia.

The World of Theatre

The World of Theatre
Author: Ian Herbert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136366849

The World of Theatre is an on-the-spot account of current theatre activity across six continents. The year 2000 edition covers the three seasons from 1996-97 to 1998-99, in over sixty countries - more than ever before. The content of the book is as varied as the theatre scene it describes, from magisterial round-ups by leading critics in Europe (Peter Hepple of The Stage) and North America (Jim O'Quinn of American Theatre) to what are sometimes literally war-torn countries such as Iran or Sierra Leone.

Alternative Theatre in Poland

Alternative Theatre in Poland
Author: Kathleen Cioffi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134374380

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.