Reimagining American Theatre

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809080583
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining American Theatre written by Robert Brustein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.

Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283872
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage written by Helene P. Foley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michelle Hensley
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873519841
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Lights on written by Michelle Hensley and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2014 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the Twin Cities' theater company Ten Thousand Things, which for more than twenty years has been bringing intelligent, lively theater to nontraditional audiences as well as the general public"--

Author : Roger Bechtel
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756492
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past Performance written by Roger Bechtel and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of overweening global capital and omnipresent electronic media, many critics have diagnosed Western culture as suffering from a kind of historical obliviousness, a mass inability to situate our lived experience within the temporal flow of past, present, and future that is history. Within this historically bankrupt culture, representations of history in whatever medium - cinema, television, print - most often become mere fashion, the quotation of past styles devoid of historical gravitas. Against this, Past Performance: American Theatre and the Historical Imagination argues that many contemporary American theatre and performance artists are not only developing innovative strategies for staging history, but helping us reimagine our relationship with the past.

Author : Rebecca Ann Rugg
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128136
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun written by Rebecca Ann Rugg and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun.

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566630986
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dumbocracy in America written by Robert Brustein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatre as mirror of our peculiar politics - this is the theme of Robert Brustein's engaging new collection of writings. No theatre critic in America is more informed by ideas than Mr. Brustein, and no critic does a better job of relating theatre to the larger culture. Here, in essays, reviews, and profiles, some of them appearing for the first time, Mr. Brustein uses the prism of the American theatre to explore the motivating impulses behind galloping political correctness.

Author : Brídín Clements Cotton
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040016693
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production written by Brídín Clements Cotton and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional theatrical production in the United States and explores labor practices that are equitable, accessible, and sustainable. In this book, Brídín Clements Cotton and Natalie Robin investigate the question of artmaking, specifically theatrical production, as work. When the art is the work, how do employers navigate the balance between creative freedom and these equitable, accessible, and sustainable personnel processes? Do theatrical production operations value the worker? Through data analyses, worker narratives, and analogues to the evolving gig economy, Theatre Work questions everything about theatrical production work – including our shared history, ways of operating, and assumptions about how theatre is made – and considers what might happen if the American Theatre was reborn in an entirely new form. Written for members of the theatrical production workplace, leaders of theatrical institutions and productions, labor organizers, and industry union leaders, Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production speaks to the ways that employers and workers can reimagine how we work.

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146173004X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Revolt written by Robert Brustein and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet. Focusing on each of them in turn, Mr. Brustein considers the nature of their revolt, the methods employed in their plays, their influences on the modern drama, and the playwrights themselves. "One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater.... It shows us the men behind the works,... what they wanted to write about and the private hell within each of them which led to the enduring works we continue to treasure."—New York Times Book Review. "The best single collection of essays I know of on modern drama... remarkably fine and sensitive pieces of criticism. "—Alvin,Kernan, Yale Review.

Author : Harvey Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009359584
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre written by Harvey Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.

Author : Bruce Alvin King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333487396
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Theatre written by Bruce Alvin King and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: