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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Theatre Magazine
Author: Theatre Magazine
Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Theatre
Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
Author: DeAnna M. Toten BeardPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810872668
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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 'little theatres'_groups around the country with artistic aspirations and local commitment that would become the models for the American regional theatre movement later in the century. In the first five years of Theatre Arts Magazine are the keys to understanding the progressive movement for a modern American theatre: the tension between commercial and non-commercial theatre, the yearning for more than realistic scenery, and the call for an 'authentic' American voice in playwriting. Publishing articles, photographs, and drawings by modernist stage designers, Cheney helped popularize the New Stagecraft and elevated the identity of the American scenic designer from a craftsperson to an artist. As progressives around the country read Theatre Arts Magazine, Cheney's assessment of the sins of American commercial theatre and the plan for its salvation eventually became the convictions of a generation. Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine: Promoting a Modern American Theatre, 1916-1921 enriches understanding of a critical period in American history and illuminates major issues of 20th century theatre and drama. Author DeAnna Toten Beard gives a brief history of the magazine, biographical information about Cheney, and an explanation of his philosophy of modernist theatre. Each chapter of the book considers a different topic relevant to Cheney's magazine, and selected articles are enhanced by full notations. This collection will help readers understand the dynamic nature of the discourse on modernism in America in the World War I era and, by extension, may even encourage fresh considerations about our contemporary stage.
Theatre Magazine
Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Theatre Guild Magazine
Author: The Theatre
Author: The Chinese Lady
Author: Lloyd SuhPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822239906
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Scene Design in the American Theatre from 1915 to 1960
Author: Helen N. LarsonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557280657
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Theatre
Author: W. J. ThoroldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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