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  • White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour

    William Brown's African and American Theater

    by Marvin McAllister ...
    In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black New Yorkers, who were barred admittance to whites-only venues offering drama, music, and refreshment. Over the following two years, Brown expanded his enterprises, founding a series of theaters that featured African Americans playing a range of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Whiting Up

    Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance

    by Marvin McAllister ...
    In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video “Dangerous.” In this sweeping work, Marvin McAllister explores the enduring tradition of “whiting up,” in which African ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Shakespearean Educations

    Power, Citizenship, and Performance

    by Coppélia Kahn, Heather S. Nathans, Jennifer Mylander, Sandra M. Gustafson, Jonathan Burton, Nan Johnson, Elizabeth Renker, Denise Albanese0, Dayton Haskin1, Marvin McAllister2, Rosemary Kegl3, Theodore Leinwand4 ...
    Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare’s works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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  • Women of Will

    Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays

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  • Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

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  • Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

    George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin

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  • An Ideal Theater

    Founding Visions for a New American Art

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    An Ideal Theater is a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told by the visionaries who goaded it into being. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters and speeches that are each introduced and placed in historical context by the noted writer and arts commentator, Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. This ... Read more

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    by Augusto Boal ...
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    Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him – the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of us. ... Read more

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