Theatre World Volume 58 2001 2002

Author : John Willis
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836267
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre World Volume 58 - 2001-2002 written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 58th year, Theatre World is the complete record of the Broadway and Off-Broadway season, touring companies, and professional regional companies throughout the United States.

Author : J. Chris Westgate
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443810185
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brecht, Broadway and United States Theater written by J. Chris Westgate and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, Bertolt Brecht’s name was on the lips of many writing about Broadway. Invoked knowingly—but not always knowledgeably—“Brecht” became something between marketing strategy and erudite justification for another season of Broadway musicals, another ignominy endured by the German playwright whose epic theater has only seldom been understood in the United States. To say that Brechtian and Broadway theatrical traditions represent divergence of philosophy, method, or ambition is to indulge—with the whimsy of Mark Twain—in understatement. Nevertheless, many references to Brecht since 2001 imply compatibility instead of contradiction—a confusion or corruption that suggested the need of looking closely at what Brecht wrote and intended in his epic theater more than seventy years after his first—and, unfortunately, typical—experience with United States theater. Beginning with the 1935 production of The Mother and moving through recent productions of political theater, including The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Urinetown: The Musical, and My Name is Rachel Corrie, this anthology considers the encounters of Brecht and Broadway in terms of dramaturgy, performance, and reception. The essays in this anthology explore the political, cultural, and economic constraints shaping many of the encounters of Brecht and Broadway in U.S. theater history. This means looking at how, in many cases, epic theater has been co-opted and commodified by Broadway and what that commodification reveals about the culture of theater. Simultaneously, this means theorizing how epic theater finds—or can find—ways of providing a necessary bulwark against Broadway escapism, and what this suggests for the future of political theater in the U.S. What results is a dialectical history tracing Brecht’s encounters with Broadway, a history that opens-up and debates the complicated and often conflicted influence of Bertolt Brecht on United States theater. “Dr. Westgate's book on Brecht and Broadway is an excellent study of the reception of Brecht's work in the American theater and academe. Brecht, along with Moliere; Ibsen and Chekhov, is one of the most frequently performed playwrights in translation in America. A thorough investigation of the trajectory of Brecht stagings on Broadway has long been overdue. I am very grateful that Dr. Westgate has taken on the task and arrived at such a splendid result. The book is a must reading for any serious Brecht scholar.” —Carl Weber, Stanford Drama Department, Collaborator with Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble, Director of many Brecht stagings in the U.S. “This is a provocative collection of essays outlining the sometimes unexpected connections between Brecht and the Broadway theatre. Like Brecht himself, these essays are playful, argumentative, and productively dialectical in their contradictions. The book is both entertaining and educational, and bound to provoke healthy debate. I recommend it as a demonstration of the ongoing relevance of Brechtian theories of theatre to the analysis of mainstream commercial theatre." —Sean Carney, Associate Professor, McGill University

Author : Ben Hodges
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423473695
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre World 2008-2009 written by Ben Hodges and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Willis
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836854
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre World written by John Willis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from the plays and portraits of leading actors accompany a statistical record of the current season

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521850742
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.

Author : D. Varney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113736789X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific written by D. Varney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.

Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110980355
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World written by Eric Csapo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c). For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By contrast, the links between autocracy and theatre are virtually ignored, despite the fact that for the first 200 years of theatre's existence more than a third of all theatre-states were autocratic. For the next 600 years, theatre flourished almost exclusively under autocratic regimes. The volume brings together experts in ancient theatre to undertake the first systematic study of the patterns of use made of the theatre by tyrants, regents, kings and emperors. Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375714626
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mythology written by Alex Ross and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the talents of DC Comics artist Alex Ross in a collection of his drawings, never-before-seen sketches, limited edition prints, and other artwork, all reproduced in full color, accompanied by a study of Ross's creative process, a new Superman-Batman story, and a new Robin origin story. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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