Mary Nolan (1905-1948), also known as Imogene Bubbles Wilson, was the subject of two infamous court casesone with Frank Tinney and the other with Eddie Mannixin the 1920s. Like many Ziegfeld Follies girls, she had the beginnings of a promising ca...Daugiau...
World theater has exhibited a bewildering array of form, style, tone and subject in the late 20th- and the early 21st centuries, and this range of work has been determined largely by its directors. This book documents this procession of theatre...Daugiau...
With a writer who had never written a play, an actress who had never taken the stage alone, and a director who had never headed a live performance, The Belle of Amherst managed to become an American theater classic. Despite being savaged by critics...Daugiau...
This work is a dynamic, practical, straightforward approach to the creative process of actor training. Combining principles of verbal and nonverbal communication with the basic tenets of Stanislavskis approach to acting, it includes a step-by-step...Daugiau...
A life in the theatre is often well described as a rollercoaster ride, with all the excitement and occasional anguish that come with the highs and lows. The authors journey in the American Theatre has been amplified even further by his experience a...Daugiau...
This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis. Featuring some of the best work from the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando...Daugiau...
The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his fathers footsteps. This biography traces his life and career as a tragic actor, including his childhood; his early acting tours...Daugiau...
Mary Nolan (1905-1948), also known as Imogene Bubbles Wilson, was the subject of two infamous court casesone with Frank Tinney and the other with Eddie Mannixin the 1920s. Like many Ziegfeld Follies girls, she had the beginnings of a promising ca...Daugiau...
Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New Yorks Bowery Theatre. His rivalry with the English tragedian William Charles Macready led...Daugiau...
The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussio...Daugiau...
Merrill traces the history of the costumes that women performers have worn in places variously known as cabaret, music-hall, and nightclub. She uses photographs, postcards, and drawings to illustrate the thinking and description in texts mostly o...Daugiau...
Immersive theater calls upon audience members to become participants, actors and others. It traditionally offers binary rolesthat of oppressor or that of victimand thereby stands the risk of simplifying complex social situations. This book is b...Daugiau...
The Incomparable Hildegarde (19062005) lived a life of glamour and excitement. She began her career as a pianist in Milwaukees silent movie theaters, which led to the Vaudeville stage. By the 1930s, she was singing in the cabarets of Paris and Lond...Daugiau...
Buster Keaton can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, wrote critic Robert Sherwood in 1918. A century later Keaton, with his darkly comic theater of the absurd, speaks...Daugiau...
In a career spanning six decades, Agnes Moorehead (19001974) was perhaps unique among 20th-century American actresses in making her name in four entertainment mediaradio, theater, film and televisionafter age 40. Focusing on 25 of her most represe...Daugiau...
Brazil has one of the most vibrant theater cultures in the world, home to a wide variety of theatrical expression. This collection of 15 interviews includes some of the most prolific creative minds of the present-day Brazilian theater sceneZe Celso,...Daugiau...
Documenting a theater project for incarcerated youth in a New Mexico juvenile detention facility, this book presents the script of a play about prison life, and interweaves the authors creative, self-reflective text (autoethnography). The collaborat...Daugiau...
Some modern-day stars also began their careers on Broadway before appearing in films. This book details the careers of 300 performers who went from stage to screen in all genres of film. A few made only a single movie, others hundreds. Each entry in...Daugiau...
Every ten years since 1634, the Bavarian village of Oberammergau has performed the worlds most famous Passion Play. In 2010, they offered a new interpretation. This collection of essays provides an analysis of the play by scholars who attended. Top...Daugiau...
Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. A variety of approaches and forma...Daugiau...
Harvey, an actor and stage manager in the UK, and Kelleher, a freelance editor and researcher in the UK, provides Harveys diary as stage manager of the avant-garde production of Fernando Arrabals The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria starrin...Daugiau...
