John Durang
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1621968936
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America in the Round
Author: Donatella Galella
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2019-03-15
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1609386256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2020 Barnard Hewitt Award, honorable mention Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage was the first professional regional theatre in the nation’s capital to welcome a racially integrated audience; the first to perform behind the Iron Curtain; and the first to win the Tony Award for best regional theatre. This behind-the-scenes look at one of the leading theatres in the United States shows how key financial and artistic decisions were made, using a range of archival materials such as letters and photographs as well as interviews with artists and administrators. Close-ups of major productions from The Great White Hope to Oklahoma! illustrate how Arena Stage navigated cultural trends. More than a chronicle, America in the Round is a critical history that reveals how far the theatre could go with its budget and racially liberal politics, and how Arena both disputed and duplicated systems of power. With an innovative “in the round” approach, the narrative simulates sitting in different parts of the arena space to see the theatre through different lenses—economics, racial dynamics, and American identity.
America on the World Stage
Author: Organization of American Historians
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0252075528
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Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!
Author: Gerald Nachman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-11-05
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0520944860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It was Sullivan's genius to take a worn-out stage genre-vaudeville-and transform it into the TV variety show, a format that was to dominate for decades. Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! tells the complete saga of The Ed Sullivan Show and, through the voices of some 60 stars interviewed for the book, brings to life the most beloved, diverse, multi-cultural, and influential variety hour ever to air. Gerald Nachman takes us through those years, from the earliest dog acts and jugglers to Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and beyond. Sullivan was the first TV impresario to feature black performers on a regular basis-including Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, James Brown, and Richard Pryor-challenging his conservative audience and his own traditional tastes, and changing the face of American popular culture along the way. No other TV show ever cut such a broad swath through our national life or cast such a long shadow, nor has there ever been another show like it. Nachman's compulsively readable history, illustrated with classic photographs and chocked with colorful anecdotes, reanimates The Ed Sullivan Show for a new generation.
America's Musical Stage
Author: Julian Mates
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1987-08-14
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0313389705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[This book is] a comprehensive illustrated history of the U.S. musical from its colonial origins to the present, tracing the connections and influences of the minstrel show, operetta, burlesque, melodrama, revues, circus, dance, musical comedy, the Broadway opera, the book musical and other forms. . . . Further, Mates introduces readers to inside stuff--the various types of musical performers." Variety Mates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critical reactions to popular theatrical forms of musical entertainment. He introduces the reader to various types of theatrical companies, the changing repertory, and the many kinds of musical performers who have animated the stage. Mates focuses on the creative relationships between the different forms of opera, the minstrel show and circus, melodrama and dance, burlesque, revue, vaudeville, and musical comedy.
Great Stars of American Stage
Author: Daniel Blum
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 0
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Author: Henry Bial
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780472069088
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Stage Presence
Author: Theodore S. Gonzalves
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Colonial American Stage, 1665-1774
Author: Odai Johnson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780838639030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe geographic range of this study is the British American colonies, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Savannah, in the Georgia colony on the continent, and the British West Indies."--BOOK JACKET.
The National Stage
Author: Loren Kruger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992-08
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780226454979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisis—from the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to "salvage democracy" in Depression America—Kruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between history and theory, text and performance, this book speaks to theatre and social historians as well as those interested in the theoretical range of cultural studies.
