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  • No Applause—Just Throw Money

    The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

    de S. D. Trav ...
    This chronicle of vaudeville is "an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment" (Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown ).When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to ... Leer más

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  • 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write

    On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

    de Sarah Ruhl ...
    "Ruhl writes pithy ruminations on language, art, and theater with a roving intelligence and compassion that are refreshingly accessible." —Tomi Obaro, Chicago MagazineThis is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected ... Leer más

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  • Writing The Broadway Musical

    de Aaron Frankel ...
    Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical-book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessential musical writers' how-to. Among the topics:definitions of musical theater; differences between musical books and straight plays and between ... Leer más

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  • Not Since Carrie

    40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops

    The "essential and hilarious" book that highlights almost 200 musicals and examines how they became Broadway's biggest fails ( The New Yorker ).Ken Mandelbaum offers the behind-the-scenes story of the development of almost two hundred musical flops that played Broadway between 1950 and 1990, along with a reevaluative and often revisionist study of their quality.Here they all are, from such ... Leer más

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  • Postdramatic Theatre

    Traducido por Karen Juers-Munby ...
    Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre ... Leer más

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  • Performing Violence

    Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

    New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Leer más

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  • Modern Dramatists

    A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights

    de Kimball King ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Drama
    This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies. ... Leer más

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  • Stage Writers Handbook

    A Complete Business Guide for Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Librettists

    de Dana Singer ...
    •Audience includes those who buy The Daramatists Sourcebook. •May be revised every 2-3 years. (Possibly an on-going project. ... Leer más

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  • Theatre of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition

    The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962

    de Mel Gordon ...
    "Bloodcurdling shrieks, fiendish schemes, deeds of darkness, mayhem and mutilation—we all have a rough idea of what Grand Guignol stands for. But until now it has been hard to find out much more about it than that. According to the American theater historian Mel Gordon, no major history of the theater so much as mentions it, although it is a form of entertainment that held its own on the Paris ... Leer más

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  • The New War Plays

    From Kane to Harris

    de J. Boll ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    How can war be represented on stage? How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and explore their transformation of societies? Springing from the discussion about 'New Wars' in the age of globalisation, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how these 'New Wars' bring forth new plays about war. ... Leer más

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  • Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage

    In History’s Wings

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political ... Leer más

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  • Stop the Show!

    A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater

    The first book to compile all of theater's glorious bloopers--an uproarious homage to the stageStop the Show! is the first book to assemble humorous, frightening and bizarre anecdotes about the history of all that went wrong during live theatrical productions in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. It is the publishing equivalent of TV bloopers for the legitimate stage.This book includes stories from ... Leer más

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