Today’s celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of fin-de-siecle London’s fashionable stage culture—particularly the women—transformed theatre’s connection
The vanished world of India’s late-colonial theatre provides the backdrop for the autobiographies in this book. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here trans
‘Moliere on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Moliere’s plays, analyzing the performance of his works in both his own time and in ours. Written by a professional stag
In addition to providing the first English translation of the anticolonial Marathi classic ‘Kichaka-Vadha’, this volume is the only edition of the play, in any language, to provide an extensive histor
"Focusing on Jews and Gentiles who defied the Nazis by resisting decrees and orders, protesting Nazi genocidal policies, or rescuing Jews, Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize
Focusing on Glasgow’s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia,later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city’s mosticonic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainme
There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances under which theatre for children and youth—birth through twenties—is generated and perceived. Offeri
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of dramas such as Augustus Thomas's Arizona (1900), Owen Wister and Kirke La Sh
Christin Essin documents theatre's backstage history through the cultural roles played by designers during the modern development of their profession. Featuring work by Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simons
This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world. As the French found innovative w
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – o
Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These thrusts have brought managers and parents into conflict with legislators who have attempted to
Clifford Odets. Arthur Miller. Paddy Chayefsky. Neil Simon. Jules Feiffer. Wendy Wasserstein. Tony Kushner. These leading American playwrights do not just happen to be Jewish: they are Jewish playwrig
Foley (English, St. Thomas U., Canada) argues that theatrical forms known as striptease and beauty contests are so deeply connected in historical, social, and performance terms that they are in effect
Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crudest Irish stereotypes - violent, drunken men and ignorant, masculine women - that served to position the Irish immigrant in America as the a
"Taking into account the ephemeral nature of performance, this book develops innovative approaches to the reconstruction of historical staging practices through the lens of Spanish classical theater.
Drawing upon Broadway musicals ranging from Irene (1919) to Gypsy (1959), American Cinderellas on the Broadway Stage considers how Cinderella Broadway musicals from the 1920s through the 1950s adapted
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Da
