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The Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made
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A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA's Federal Theater Project. Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the...
Cities of Hope
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For the past 20 years, Edmond and Corrigan's work has drawn an intense reaction and interest that only has an Australian counterpart in the reception of Walter Burley Griffin in...
The Boys from Syracuse: The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire
The sons of a religious fanatic, the Shubert brothers from Syracuse--Sam, Lee, and J. J.--"seemed unlikely casting for the most ruthless titans in the history of American theatre," notes biographer...
The Theatres Trust Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950
This descriptive gazetter looks, town by town, at all surviving theatres built between 1750 and 1950. It makes assesments of their quality, architecturally and theatrically and also assesses the potential...
Stanislavski: His Life and Art: A Biography
"This is the most complete description yet available in English of Stanislavski's real life in art" (New York Times) Jean Benedetti's critical biography of Konstantin Stanislavski, one of the towering...
Contemporary British Theatre
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Contemporary British Theatre surveys the complex and dynamic theatre of the eighties and early nineties reflecting a country that is multicultural, multiethnic and multinational. The contributors - artists, scholars and...
Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in
Acting the Right Part is a cultural history of huaju (modern Chinese drama) from 1966 to 1996. Xiaomei Chen situates her study both in the context of Chinese literary and...