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  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1

    David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Margaret Webster

    Series series Great Stage Directors
    This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft ... Read more

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  • The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922

    by Cheryl Black ...
    An illuminating account of the roles a remarkable group of women played in one of the most influential theatre groups in America, demonstrating their influence on 20th-century dramaturgy and culture.In this fascinating work, Cheryl Black reveals that, in addition to its role in developing an American tradition of non-commercial theatre, Provincetown has another, largely unacknowledged claim to ... Read more

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  • Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s

    Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

    Series series Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009
    The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, ... Read more

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  • Two Little Fairies

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    Illustrated by Geena Heinrich ...
    Imagine a world where everyone loved each other, everyone was happy, and nothing ever went wrong.In her book, Two Little Fairies, author Cheryl Black introduces us to such a world thanks to two special fairies, Emma and Addison. Without warning, the wise ones from the fairy world decide to call the two little fairies away, leaving all to fend for themselves, and make sense of the loss while ... Read more

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  • Conversations with Peter Brook: 1970-2000

    Edited by Margaret Croyden ...
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  • Invitation to the Party

    Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community

    Acknowledged as the nation’s foremost expert on audience development involving America’s growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage diverse communities as participants for arts and culture. By offering strategic collaborations and efforts to develop and sustain nontraditional ... Read more

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    Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the most exciting theatre of our time. ... Read more

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  • Introducing Shakespeare

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    by Nick Groom ...
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    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... Read more

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  • Anger and After (Routledge Revivals)

    A Guide to the New British Drama

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold Wesker. Thoroughly revised in 1969, this book remains important reading for theatre students in ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Second World War

    Memory, Culture, Identity

    Edited by Irena Makaryk, Marissa McHugh ...
    Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image.In wartime, such ... Read more

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