Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921
by
DeAnna M. Toten Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a 'renaissance' in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of...