[PDF] United States Theatre eBook

Author : Esther Kim Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521850517

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This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.

Author : Jim Volz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1408152312

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"I cannot think of a better book for aspiring and working actors, craftspeople, artists, and managers" Kent Thompson, Artistic Director, Denver Center Theatre Company, Past President TCG Board of Directors "It's time for a new look at the complexity and richness of America's growing theatrical landscapre and Jim Volz is just the person to provide that overview" Lesley Schisgall Currier, Managing Director, Marin Shakespeare Company Working in American Theatre is a coast-to-coast overview of the opportunities awaiting theatre practitioners in every discipline. Featuring tips from America's top theatre professionals, this resource offers job-search and career-planning strategies, as well as detailed information on over 1,000 places to work in the American theatre, including regional companies, Broadway and commerical theatre, Shakespeare festivals, touring theatres, university/resident theatres, youth and children's theatres, and outdoor theatres. Offering an overview of the evolution of American theatre and behind-the-scenes stories of the regional movement, this single volume is an indispensable tool at every stage of your career.

Author : Robert A Schanke
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780809327478

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Composed of sixteen essays and fifteen illustrations, Angels in the American Theater explores not only how donors became angels but also their backgrounds, motivations, policies, limitations, support, and successes and failures.

Author : Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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Reveals the multicultural dimension of the history of North American theater, covering Mexican, Native US, Caribbean, and Canadian theater as well as US theater history. Coverage encompasses major theatrical developments, events, and influential figures, with sections on pre- Columbian performance, New Spain, the American colonies, New France, national stages, and the periods 1825-1870, 1870-1900, 1900-1945, and 1945 to the present. Includes some 300 bandw photos and illustrations. For students and general readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kate Dossett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1469654431

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Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American artists took on theatre work usually reserved for whites, staged black versions of "white" classics, and developed radical new dramas. In this fresh history of the FTP Negro Units, Kate Dossett examines what she calls the black performance community—a broad network of actors, dramatists, audiences, critics, and community activists—who made and remade black theatre manuscripts for the Negro Units and other theatre companies from New York to Seattle. Tracing how African American playwrights and troupes developed these manuscripts and how they were then contested, revised, and reinterpreted, Dossett argues that these texts constitute an archive of black agency, and understanding their history allows us to consider black dramas on their own terms. The cultural and intellectual labor of black theatre artists was at the heart of radical politics in 1930s America, and their work became an important battleground in a turbulent decade.

Author : Stephanie Coen
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.

Author : John H. Houchin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521818193

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John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural traditions. Along with the well-known instance of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, other almost equally influential events shaped the course of the American stage during the century. The book is arranged in chronological order. It provides a summary of censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and then analyses key political and theatrical events between 1900 and 2000. These include a discussion of the 1913 riot after the Abbey Theatre touring produdtion of Playboy of the Western World; protests against Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty, performed by militant workers during the Depression; and reactions to the recent play Angels in America.

Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781559361873

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August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.

Author : Barry Witham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521308588

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Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.