This volume, an exploration of theater on both sides of the Atlantic, is published in conjunction with a BBC-TV series of the same name. Insider perspectivres on Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Mark Ravenhill, Noel Coward, and many others is included.
"Performing Communities" is an inquiry into ensemble theater of inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York and cross-continental Native America. This compendium of critical writing about the role these ...
"Venturesome feminist," historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), who explored uncharted regions and opened up new areas for women who followed. Born in Davenport, Iowa, just as America entered its second century, Glaspell took her cue from her pioneering grandparents as she sought to ...
"Highbrow/Lowdown" explores the twentieth century's first culture war, and the cultural forces that permanently transformed American theater into the art form we know today. The arrival of jazz in the early part of the twentieth century sparked a cultural revolution that was impossible to contain. The music affected every stratum of U.S. society ...
Slipping behind the scenes, Baldwin undresses the issues of feminism, modern popularity and what exactly has fueled the growth and evolution of the burlesque show.
"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 interplay of the playwright's artistic vision and ...
In celebration of American Theatre's twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors of the nation's leading theater magazine have chosen their best essays and interviews to provide an intimate look at the people, plays, and events that have shaped the American theater over the past quarter-century. Over two hundred artists, critics, and theater ...
This is a comprehensive survey of modern American drama beginning with its antecedents in Victorian melodrama through to the present. The author discusses the work and the achievement of more than 70 playwrights, from Eugene O'Neill to Susan-lori Parks - from the golden era of Broadway to the rise of Off-Broadway and regional theatre. He shows how ...
Explores the legacy that Constantin Stanislavsky's system of actor-training has left on acting in the US. This title outlines the journey of Stanislavsky's theories through twentieth century American history, from the early US tours of the Moscow Art Theatre to the impact of The System on modern American acting.
This collection brings together a diverse group of essays dissecting American plays, movies, theatre productions, and other performance types that examine American history and culture.
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