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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013996504Author T Edgar (Thomas Edgar) 1 PembertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013645365Author Walter Prichard 1878-1957 EatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595468041Author Eleanor CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 91g

The end result of a forty-year avocation, this unique dictionary presents information about scenographic practitioners from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century in those countries with major theatre traditions. Although occasional volumes have...

The careers, directing accomplishments, ideas, and techniques of six distinguished directors of the European stage--each considered a master of the art--are surveyed in depth by author Samuel L. Leiter in this groundbreaking study. Konstantin...

This new book contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Ethel Merman's work and materials written on this great American entertainer. She dominated the American musical stage as no other performer has, yet she appeared in only fifteen Broadway...

A one-stop, up-to-date source for information on the history of the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity and variety of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient dictionary format. Coverage extends...

Scholarly work on the impact of an active audience on theatrical and dance performance is a relatively new phenomenon, one that until now has manifested itself largely in the form of scattered dialogue on the subject. Audience Participation: Essays on...

Sarah Bernhardt, possibly the greatest actress of the late nineteenth century, was a symbol of French Romantic theatre at its height and of the melodramatic excesses that led to its demise. The theatre of Bernhardt's time was changing rapidly, and Salmon...

Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era...

The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.Book InformationISBN 9780230116863Author F. BurwickFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013959288Author James BoadenFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 794g

This volume represents the first major bibliography on Black theatre and performance in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Canada. Unlike previous bibliographies on the topic, this work gives equal weight to Africa and the African...

This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and...

This book provides a detailed record of the life and career of Lucille Lortel, one of the great producers of Off-Broadway theater. The volume begins with a biography of Lortel and a chronology follows, in which the chief events in her life are presented...

What is it like to pursue a career in acting? Forty working actors comment on auditions, day jobs, agents, rejection, and what drives them to keep going when there is no work. These personal essays have been drawn from interviews with actors at different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313253249Author Julian MatesFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014398123Author Squire 1841-1926 BancroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013539817Author AnonymousFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267338Author Susanne Valerie GranzerFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013642791Author Lewis 1874-1932 MelvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013922596Author Illinois Dept of AgricultureFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 826g

NYTR's 2008 edition contains three new plays, three original commissioned essays, an extended roundtable chat with six leading NYC theater and performance bloggers, and a sit-down give and take with that singular sonic performance onslaught also known as...

This book provides biographical and analytical data on significant historical and contemporary practitioners and theorists of the theatrical design field who have contributed to the development of the art. Beginning with a historical survey on the...

The theatre and drama of the 1920s reflect a synergy of art, glitter, and glitz-a decade of great mainstream playwrights and a flourishing popular and commercial theatre, but it was also a decade in which discontented artists and a variety of people on...

Designed primarily for use by students and theatre generalists, this volume contains biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of over 300 individuals distinguished for their stage directing. It includes both contemporary directors and those who...

The Artef (1925-1940) began as a radical Yiddish workers' theatre and developed into a major American Yiddish theatre company. It was among the acknowledged pillars of the Theatre of Social Consciousness, a movement that redefined the course for the...

In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an important figure in the development of the theatre. While his contribution to music history has been exhaustively documented and analyzed, his theatrical...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313225895Author David RitcheyFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013915475Author Herbert LloydFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 513g

Theatre Workshop: Joan Littlewood and the Making of Modern British Theatre is the first in-depth study of perhaps Britain's most influential twentieth-century theatre company. The book sets the company's aims and achievements in their social, political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274558Author Gesa ZiemerFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Edwin Booth was the foremost Shakespearean actor in late nineteenth-century America, enjoying almost mythic status. This comprehensive analysis and documentation of his career provides an aperture from which to view theatre and society of the period. The...

This is the first published resource on the life and seventy-year theatrical career of award-winning actress Eva Le Gallienne. It traces Le Gallienne's acting debut in 1914, her travels to the United States, and the successes and failures of her New York...

This book seeks to bring to life the prolonged dawning of American drama, to outline America's continued quest for a national drama and theatre, and to provide a survey of the development of dramatic criticism in the United States. For more than a...

This reference traces in fascinating detail the exceptionally long career of Helen Hayes, the First Lady of the American Theatre. In addition to a biography of the actress, which charts the development of her unique talent and the successes and tragedies...

Following an outline history of the monologue as an independent genre in the theater of Latin America, this bibliography incorporates all published and unpublished, staged and unstaged monologue pieces written in Latin America. The bibliographical...

This study takes a look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Drawing on performance studies, it provides...

This book explores repetition in contemporary performance and spectatorship. It offers an impassioned account of the ways in which speech, movement and structures repeat in performances by Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Lone Twin Theatre,...