Theatre category: 6638 books
Folk Theatre of Rajasthan
Introducing Three Marwari Khyal Plays Translated into English
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Tom Ault has written a theatre ethnography that brings Rajasthans folk tradition of khyal to readers in both descriptions and translations of the plays, based on his many periods of research and hanging out with khyal players and affecionados. A performance genre probably stemming from the soliloquies...
No Drama Just Theatre
Plays on World History
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
With the No Drama Just Theatre series, Crea-Shakthi aims to make World History accessible through role-playing in the classroom and otherwise. The intention is the make theatre a driving force for learning to everyone not only with a book of plays but also with activities that would engage the readers...
The Poetics of Stage Space
The Theory and Process of Theatre Scene Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
This book analyzes theatre scene design through the powers and characteristics of physical space. Physical space is central to creative composition in the theatre, but the author extends the reach of the book to individuals concerned with spatial design—architects, interior designers, industrial...
by Daniel Reichelt
Language: German
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Language: German
Release Date: April 9, 2003
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Theaterwissenschaft, Tanz, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Der frühe sowjetische Film: Sergej Eisenstein, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In the beginning of the Ninteen-twenties...
by Jeanne Chenault Porter
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
My first volume, New Plays from New York and this second one contains both dramas and comedies which vary in length. All have been produced in festivals (national and international) and small theater companies in Manhattan between 2011 and 2016 and are a collection of my theatrical adventures and...
Jack Be Nimble
The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors
For Jack O'Brien, there's nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there's nothing like the theater.
Following...
Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks
A Very Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals That Did Not Win the Tony Award
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
"Wait..Gypsy didn't win the Tony for Best Musical?"
That's a question that gets asked over and over again, every time a new Rose takes to the runway in the Broadway classic "Gypsy". In "Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks", the popular syndicated theatre critic Peter...
An Actor's Companion
Tools for the Working Actor
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
"I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone....
Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919
From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed in many books about American musicals, but what of the hundreds...
by West End Producer
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
West End Producer is the anonymous Twitter sensation whose hilarious and unfailingly accurate barbs satirising and celebrating the theatre industry have won him a devoted following.
His identity is the subject of feverish speculation in the media, fuelled by his regular appearances at West...
by Robert Brustein
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
In his collection of essays and reviews, Robert Brustein makes the argument that the American Theatre is enjoying a renaissance that has not been unacknowledged.
The Divine
A Play for Sarah Bernhardt
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Quebec City, 1908. Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter to a controversial visitor to their city: the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.']As part of her long career, Bernhardt – known to her loyal fans as “The Divine” – visited Canada several times between 1880 and 1917,...
Life Before Stratford
The Memoirs of Amelia Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 1990
By the time Amelia Hall died suddenly in December 1984 she had become one of Canada's most respected and well-loved actresses. In this book she has left an incomparable record of her early years in the professional theatre in Canada. In particular, these memoirs chronicle the history of the Canadian...
by Jonathon Young, Kevin Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithwaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the infamous avant-garde theatre The Empty Space.” Alex becomes convinced that this man’s radically...