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1) Fosse
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"We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce;'s moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin,...
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Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song dance skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama all fully described by the author. In the modem era the Japanese...
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"Shakespeare's Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to persecution, proves that the drama off-stage was just as intense as any portrayed on it. The stories include those of: An ancient Greek writer of tragedies who dies when an eagle drops a tortoise on his head. A sixteenth-century English playwright who...
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First published in 1933, "Acting: The First Six Lessons" is the classic work on what would later become known as Method acting by Richard Boleslavsky. Born in Russia in 1889, Boleslavsky began his acting career by studying under Konstantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre where he learned about the "system". After World War I, Boleslavsky both directed and acted in films in Poland and Germany before settling in New York, where he founded the...
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This is the third volume of extracts from the British theatrical newspaper "The Era", regarded as the "bible" of the theatrical and music hall world. Dealing with the years 1870 to 1880, it chronicles the hilarious, bizarre and occasionally tragic aspects of life on and off the stage. W.S. Gilbert is driven to distraction by an organ grinder, music halls are taken to task for promoting smutty songs, scene-stealing animals delight audiences and exasperate...
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Alan L. Boegehold, Professor of Classics, teaches Latin and Greek at Brown University. Within recent years he has published Agora 28. The Lawcourts at Athens; Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology, with Adele Scafuro; and In Simple Clothes, translations into English of eleven poems by Constantine Cavafy.
A boldly innovative study of nonverbal communication in the poetry and prose of Hellenic antiquity
When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper...
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A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment
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 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. Its stars were America's first stars in the modern sense, and it utterly...
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Sharkey is the natural artist, performing his magic for nothing but love.-Wolcott Gibbs, the New Yorker
Sharkey tells the compelling story of an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the twentieth century-from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond. Readers follow Sharkey and his flippered colleagues as they travel the world with stops at...
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For over forty-years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theater, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his famous production of The Trojan Women, which subsequently toured around the world. An intergral part of his work has been the development and teaching of his rigorous and controversial training system, the Suzuki method, whose principals have also been highly influential...
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In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for counterculture in the city, playing host to a litany of performances, screenings, parties, exhibitions, and all manner of queer fuckery. But hosting a city in their house took its toll and eventually William and Jordan...
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El libro Decirse público: entre la mediación teatral y el efecto estético aborda aspectos de la relación entre teatro y público en nuestros días, desde distintas perspectivas. Para ello, aborda la relación entre arte teatral y vida pública, generando formas de pensar las prácticas artísticas frente a las cuestiones urgentes que aquejan a nuestras sociedades contemporáneas.
Los textos presentados en el libro revelan la relación entre teatro...
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In 1969, the Village Voice described Minneapolis as "America's second theater city after New York." In the forty-plus years since, the theatrical offerings of Minneapolis and St. Paul have only grown-everything from world-renowned venues to independent stages and innovative festivals-and the Twin Cities hold a prominent place in the national theater scene today. In Offstage Voices, author Peg Guilfoyle provides an in-depth look at this vibrant world...
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Theater on the Cape began in 1916 when a group of artists and writers in Provincetown mounted a production of a one-act play, Bound East for Cardiff, by a little-known playwright, Eugene O'Neill. They staged the play in a rickety old theater on a wharf in what was then little more than a sleepy fishing village. From that artists' colony--and others like it across the Cape and Islands--it grew into the constantly expanding theater universe it is today....
14) At This Theatre
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Theatregoers' favorite history of Broadway is back in an updated and expanded 2010 edition including more than 500 color production photos, vintage archival photos, and Playbill covers from all forty currently operating Broadway theatres. Thirty-eight of the original chapters have been expanded to cover all the shows that have opened in the ten years since the popular 2000 edition, with two new chapters added to include Broadway theatres recently...
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Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of 'psychological' individualism for his social class. Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992" Ruth Padel, recently Visiting Professor in the Modern Greek Program at Princeton University, has taught classics at the University of Oxford and the University of London. She is the author of two books of poems and of Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness.
Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of...
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À Paris, entre la fin du xixe siècle et le début des années 1930, le cinéma, le disque et la radio triomphent. Dans ce monde du divertissement de plus en plus dominé par l'artifice, le médiatisé et le « reproduit », le théâtre s'affirme comme l'une des ultimes enclaves de vérité, à cause, notamment, de la présence de « vrais » acteurs rencontrant un « vrai » public. Pourtant, ses artisans n'en recourent pas moins aux mêmes technologies...
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Tomando como idea esencial en la obra garciamarquiana las nociones del realismo mágico y del movimiento cinematográfico "neorrealismo italiano", que circunscribe los años anteriores y posteriores al fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), el texto Gabriel García Márquez y el cine ¿Una buena amistad? Intenta orientar y facilitar al lector más desprevenido hacia una diferenciación elemental y esencial entre los conceptos de filme-crónica...
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Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the 'home company' for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald. In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company's journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment,...
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J. Thomas Rimer, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature,
Theatre, and Art at the University of Pittsburgh, has written widely on Japanese culture. Yamazaki Masakazu, Professor Emeritus at Osaka University, is an award-winning playwright whose collected works have been translated into several languages.
This annotated translation is the first systematic rendering into any Western language of the nine major treatises on the art of the Japanese...
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