George Pate: 3 books
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22
Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of...
by George Pate
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Captain Nieminen’s last voyage before retirement seemed ordinary enough—a simple trip from Canada to Riga in the Baltic Sea. The sea, however, always provides the unexpected. The Master of the cargo ship Lake Ladoga will be confronted with illicit cargo, murder, and a heartless fiend before reaching...
Enter the Undead Author
Intellectual Property, the Ideology of Authorship, and Performance Practices since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Many narratives of theater history suggest that the 1960s marked the start of a turning away from traditional, script-based, playwright-centric production practices. Literary studies in this period began exploring the concept of the “death of the author” along similar lines. But the author refused...