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Pages: 287
Authors: Julia Jarcho
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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It is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater's critical power and places innova
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Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Mary C. Henderson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

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Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) was an acclaimed scenic designer of the Americanheatre. Over five decades his career spanned the flowering of the modernheatre in the U
Spectral Characters
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Sarah Balkin
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-31 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Theater’s materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spe
Performing Women
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Gay Gibson Cima
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Argues that critics have misunderstood the relationship between male playwrights and women's roles because they have neglected the interpretive skills of the ac
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Joel Berkowitz
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Collects leading scholars' insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater. While Yiddish the