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Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway
Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.
by Peggy Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Journey through the wit and wisdom of generations of visual artists, photographers, writers, and architects--and discover what makes creative people extraordinary. This compilation of more than 1,000 great quotations, from famous to obscure, celebrates what artist throughout time have said about fame,...
by Marvin Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Since its original publication in 1996, Marvin Carlson's Performance: A Critical Introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. It is an unparalleled exploration of the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted, its importance to disciplines...
Acts
Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting, Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Selfsheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the acting...
by Peggy Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Updated to inspire a new generation of visual artists in their quest for creative growth, this book shows artists how they can experience a new awakening of creativity and add fresh meaning to their work by using simple techniques found in this inspirational guide. A working artist who has coped successfully...
by Richard Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Only Entertainment explores entertainment as entertainment, asking how and whether an emphasis on the primacy of pleasure sets it apart from other forms of art.
Dyer focuses on the genres most associated with entertainment, from musicals to action movies, disco to porn. He examines the nature of entertainment...
Performing Asian Transnationalisms
Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses...
Performing Otherness
Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy.
A Life in Acting
The Actor's Guide to Creative and Career Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A Life in Acting is a practical guide for aspiring and established theater actors looking to make a consistent living doing meaningful, creative work on the stage. Author Lisa Mulcahy communicates her advice through a series of interviews and war stories” that will have you taking notes and laughing...
by Lisa Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
What makes a theater company successful? Lisa Mulcahy poses the question to leaders from nineteen of the country’s most diverse and vital theater companies from the recent past and present, and offers answers in Building the Successful Theater Company. Producers, stage managers, directors-anyone...
by Max Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Now fans need no longer wait for the CBC to re-run recordings of Max Ferguson's notorious radio shows (assuming that the tapes have not all been destroyed by court order). A full dose of his lunacy, depravity, and flagrant disregard for CBC management can now be enjoyed at any hour of the day or night...
Stage Management Basics
A Primer for Performing Arts Stage Managers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Without assuming any intrinsic prior knowledge of the theatrical field and its associated, specialized terminology, Stage Management Basics covers every aspect of the stage management, from reading a script, meeting with a director and theatre staff, and auditioning, to constructing green digital...
Storytelling and Theatre
Contemporary Professional Storytellers and their Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
This will be of particular interest to undergraduates of performing arts and the substantial community of those engaged in storytelling, filling a noticeable void in an emerging field of scholarship. Michael Wilson addresses the recent rise of storytelling as a professional performance art by providing...
Performing Anti-Slavery
Activist Women on Antebellum Stages
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Performing Anti-Slavery, Gay Gibson Cima reimagines the connection between the self and the other within activist performance, providing fascinating new insights into women's nineteenth-century reform efforts, revising the history of abolition, and illuminating an affective repertoire that haunts...