American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice

American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
Title American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice PDF eBook
Author N. Pressley
Publisher Springer
Pages 313
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1137415185

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Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.

American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice

American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice
Title American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice PDF eBook
Author N. Pressley
Publisher Springer
Pages 198
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1137415185

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Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1980s

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1980s
Title Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1980s PDF eBook
Author Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 257
Release 2019-11-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 135015363X

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The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: David Mamet: Edmond (1982), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and Oleanna (1992); David Henry Hwang: Family Devotions (1981), The Sound of a Voice (1983) and M. Butterfly (1988); Maria Irene Fornès: The Danube (1982), Mud (1983) and The Conduct of Life (1985); August Wilson: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) and Fences (1987).

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Historical Dictionary of American Theater
Title Historical Dictionary of American Theater PDF eBook
Author James Fisher
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 571
Release 2015-04-16
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 081087833X

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen
Title Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen PDF eBook
Author John W. Frick
Publisher Springer
Pages 324
Release 2016-04-30
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1137566450

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No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.

The Business of American Theatre

The Business of American Theatre
Title The Business of American Theatre PDF eBook
Author William Grange
Publisher Routledge
Pages 536
Release 2020-06-02
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1000074714

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The Business of American Theatre is a research guide to the history of producing theatre in the United States. Covering a wide range of subjects, the book explores how traditions of investment, marketing, labor union contracts, advertising, leasing arrangements, ticket scalping, zoning ordinances, royalties, and numerous other financial transactions have influenced the art of theatre for the past three centuries. Yet the book is not a dry reiteration of hits and flops, bankruptcies and bamboozles. Nor does it cover "everything about it that's appealing, everything the traffic will allow" (as Irving Berlin did in the song "There's No Business Like Show Business"). It is instead a highly readable resource for anyone interested in how money, and how much money, is critical to the art and artists of theatre. Many of those artists make appearances in the book: Richard Rodgers and his keen eye for investment, Jacob Shubert and his construction of "the bridge of thighs" for his showgirls at the Winter Garden, the significance of the Disney Souvenir Shop near the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, and the difference between a Broadway show losing millions of dollars or making billions in one night. Consider this book a go-to resource for readers, students, and scholars of the theatre business.

Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905

Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905
Title Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905 PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Mooney
Publisher Springer
Pages 407
Release 2015-09-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137476621

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Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined.