American Theatre
American Theatre

Author: Theresa Saxon

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0748631275

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Argues for the recognition of American theatre history as long, rich, diverse and critically compelling.Embracing all epochs of theatre history, from pre-colonial Native American performance rituals and the endeavours of early colonisers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the end of the twentieth century, Theresa Saxon situates American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena. She considers the implications of political manoeuvrings, economics - state-funding and commercial enterprises - race and gender, as well as material factors such as technology, riot and fire, as major forces in determining the structure of America's playhouses and productions. She goes on to investigate critical understandings of the term 'theatre,' and assesses ways in which the various values of commerce, entertainment, education and dramatic production have informed the definition of theatre throughout America's history.

The Status of Theatre Research, 1984
The Status of Theatre Research, 1984

Author: American Theatre Association. Commission on Theatre Research

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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The Commission on Theatre Research was created by the American Theatre Association in 1976 to identify research needs within the field of theatre and to report these to the A. T.A. Executive Committee and to the Association's membership as a whole. Recent projects of the Commission have included the Research Model prepared by our predecessors (see Theatre News, March , 1981) and two dramaturgy reports (see Theatre News , Jan. - Feb ., 1983 , "Commission Produces a Bibliography of Dramaturgy" and , Fall , 1983, "Dramaturgy Survey Expected to Stimulate Research") . The present work is devoted to traditional research, given that previously published Commission reports have addressed performance research . In 1982, as the result of research underway , of general impressions, and of the exhortations of then A. T. A. president-elect Bernard Rosenblatt, the Commission began to investigate the status of theatre research in U. S. colleges and universities (where theatre research is most commonly conducted in this country) with the objectives of specifying the current standing of theatre research and what (in the form of a recommendation to the A. T.A. Executive Committee) ought to be done about it. Certain issues came quickly to the fore, and these, and the conclusions drawn from them, form the contents of this monograph.