The World of George Jean Nathan
The World of George Jean Nathan

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781557833136

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(Applause Books). This anthology represents George Jean Nathan in all the various facets of his long writing career. He has written on marraige, politics, doctors, metropolitan life, the ballet, love, alcohol on virtually every major aspect of contemporary life and he has had something shrewd or amusing to say about every one of them.

The Critic and the Drama
The Critic and the Drama

Author: George Jean Nathan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780838679647

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George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) was formative influence on American letters in the first half of this century, and is generally considered the leading drama critic of his era. With H. L. Mencken, Nathan edited The Smart Set and founded and edited The American Mercury, journals that shaped opinion in the 1920s and 1930s. This series of reprints, individually introduced by the distinguished critic and novelist Charles Angoff, collects Nathan's penetrating, witty, and sometimes cynical drama criticism.

Method Acting and Its Discontents
Method Acting and Its Discontents

Author: Shonni Enelow

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0810131412

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Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-Drama provides a new understanding of a crucial chapter in American theater history. Enelow’s consideration of the broader cultural climate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically the debates within psychology and psychoanalysis, the period’s racial and sexual politics, and the rise of mass media, gives us a nuanced, complex picture of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and contemporaneous works of drama. Combining cultural analysis, dramaturgical criticism, and performance theory, Enelow shows how Method acting’s contradictions reveal powerful tensions inside mid-century notions of individual and collective identity.

The Chekhov Theatre
The Chekhov Theatre

Author: Laurence Senelick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780521783958

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Many now consider Chekhov a playwright equal to Shakespeare. Senelick studies how his reputation evolved, and how the presentation of his plays varied and altered from their initial productions in Russia to recent postmodern deconstructions.

The Fatal Weakness
The Fatal Weakness

Author: George Kelly

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1947

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780573608889

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National Theatre, Edmund Plohn, manager, The Theatre Guild presents Ina Claire in George Kelly's new comedy "The Fatal Weakness," with Jane Seymour, Howard St. John, directed by the author, setting designed and lighted by Donald Oenslager, costumes supervised by Bianca Stroockm production under the supervision of Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn.

Microdramas
Microdramas

Author: John H. Muse

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-10-13

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0472053639

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Explores what brevity can teach us about the powers and limits of theater

Gutenberg! the Musical!
Gutenberg! the Musical!

Author: Anthony King

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 2010-11-12

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0573651493

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"In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers' audition for their new, ill-advised project -- a bit, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. With an unending supply of enthusiasm, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic, with the hope that one of the producers in attendance will give them that elusive Broadway contract." --