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Studying Plays
by Mick Wallis  Publisher Comments This is an accessible and lively introduction to the essential tools for studying a dramatic text. Looking at the four key areas--dialogue, action, character, and space--the book focuses on the specifically dramatic aspects of plays, rather than on...
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What Is Theatre?: Incorporating the Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967
by Eric Bentley Publisher Comments Introduction by Donald Lyons What Is Theatre?, originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays...
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The New York Times Book of Broadway
by Ben Brantley Publisher Comments Ben Brantley, drama critic of The New York Times relives unforgettable Broadway and off-Broadway moments. Witness the night a star was born, a director's brilliant debut, a play that broke new ground, a musical that redefined the genre, and even a...
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The Theater and Its Double
by Antonin Artaud Publisher Comments A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical...
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Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust
by Rebecca Rovit Publisher Comments This volume collects for the first time critical essays, memoirs, and primary source materials relating to the surprising history of Jewish drama, cabaret, music, and opera under the Third Reich. These documents offer the remarkable account of a...
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Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir
by Theodore Mann Publisher Comments Dustin Hoffman, George C. Scott, Geraldine Page, Jason Robards - where did these legendary actors all get their start? At a magical New York theatre company called Circle in the Square. For half a century, this remarkable theatre has been redefining what...
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The Ground on Which I Stand (Dramatic Contexts)
by August Wilson Publisher Comments The first publication of the address August Wilson gave at the TCG National Conference in 1996, which became the center of a major national debate conducted on the pages of The New Republic and American Theatre magazine, culminating with the sold-out...
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The Theatre: A Concise History (World of Art)
by Phyllis Hartnoll Publisher Comments Acting, direction, stagecraft, theater architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature -- here is an all-embracing and richly illustrated history, worldwide in scope and ranging from the ancient origins of the...
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Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America
by Stefan Kanfer Publisher Comments In "Stardust Lost", Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life. Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes...
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Sacred Theatre (Intellect Books - Theatre and Consciousness)
by Ralph Yarrow Publisher Comments The notion of the sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Ralph Yarrow’s Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the practice, process, and performance of drama...
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The Theatre of Martin Crimp
by Aleks Sierz Publisher Comments For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of new writing for the British stage. His main stage plays include Dealing with Clair, The Treatment, Attempts on Her Life, The Country, and Cruel and Tender. Arguing that Crimp is one of the most...
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Open Door (93 Edition)
by Peter Brook Publisher Comments From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen," "from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of...
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture #80: Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
by Rena Fraden Publisher Comments During the 1930s the Work Progress Administration funded the Federal Theater Project to sustain unemployed theatrical workers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major urban centers, employing over 12,000 people and presenting countless...
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Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook
by Richard Drain Publisher Comments "Twentieth Century Theatre" is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners-- directors, playwrights...
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Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama
by Tejumola Olaniyan Publisher Comments This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora. Looking closely at the work of Amiri Baraka, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, the author contends...
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Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater
by Lynne Conner Publisher Comments Pittsburgh has a rich and diverse theatrical tradition, from early frontier performances by officers stationed at Fort Pitt through experimental theater at the end of the twentieth century. Pittsburgh in Stages offers the first comprehensive history of...
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Another Opening Another Show
by Tom Markus Publisher Comments Designed for nonmajors, this introductory text is a helpful and practical guide to what theatre is and to ways to enjoy the entire theatre experience. Its survey of the theatre landscape is enlivened by behind-the-scenes stories from the two authors?one...
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Staging Whiteness
by Mary Brewer Publisher Comments How whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life....
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Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-Directors, 1940's to the Present
by Robert Emmet Long Publisher Comments 1940s to the present Broadway, the Golden Years is a wonderfully readable group portrait, or series of biographies as well as historical overview, of the great Broadway choregraphers, from the World War II era to our own time: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de...
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Love Is Where It Falls: An Account of a Passionate Friendship
by Simon Callow Publisher Comments "This extraordinary memoir brilliantly evokes one of the most formidable and influential figures in recent British cultural history, Peggy RamsayThose of us who loved her will be astonished by the vivid accuracy of Simon Callow's portrait; but even those...
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