In this first-ever complete chronicle of 20th century British theatre, Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon trace the history of the plays and people who made it happen. Informal and informative, "A Century of Theatre" highlights theatre events for each year, as well as providing a review of the events that year which changed drama history.
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In celebrating four hundrend years of the London stage, Brian Masters brings to life the great actors of the past and recreates their impact in performance, from Thomas Betterton to David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Mrs. Siddons, Henry Livings, to this century with John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. He says that the work of great actors does not die with them, but is re-experienced in the performances of today's actors.
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Perhaps most notable for its discovery of two significant American playwrights -- Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell -- and for its role in developing an American tradition of non-commercial theater, the Provincetown Players collective has long been appreciated for its meaningful contributions to American drama. An outgrowth of the Greenwich Village community of politically minded artists and intellectuals, the group became convinced that theater ...

Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art. <BR> ...

Introduced by award-winning writer Bonnie Greer with a unique bibliography by Susan Croft, Curator, London Theatre Museum. Includes: Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan; "Made in England" by Parv Bancil; "Brother to Brother" by Michael McMillan; "Calcutta Kosher" by Shelly Silas and "Under Their Influence" by Wayne Buchanan.
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England's Royal National Theatre celebrates its 25th Anniversary on the South Bank this year. During this time over 400 productions have been seen in rehearsal through the eyes of some of the world's leading photographers. The 200-plus black and white photographs in this book capture the essence of theatre-in-progress, actors and directors at work behind closed doors, and shows the development of some of the great names of our stage.
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The mask is not to be carelessly assumed or lightly put off. Primitive man knows that there must be initiation & a certain ceremony. If he puts on a false face without the proper incantation, there will be no power in it. It is the purpose of the following pages to try to bridge by just a little the gap that lies between the primitive man who puts a sort of idol on his face, and the Greek tragedian; between the Duk-Duk dancer who regulates ...

The first of a monumental three-volume history of theatre from the classical to the Renaissance. ...

This volume is a joint publication of the Brecht Yearbook and the Berlin journal Theater der Zeit Arbeitsbuch in anticipation of the Brecht centenary in 1998. The large-format edition is richly illustrated and includes original contributions in English and German by writers Nadine Gordimer, Gunther Grass, Elfriede Jelinek, Volker Braun, Gerhard Zwerenz, and Christoph Hein.In addition, there are interviews with or statements by international ...

1883. This volume contains critical essays written by Brandes about Ibsen and Bjornson. The first essay on the Norwegian playwright Ibsen, who is generally acknowledged as the founder of modern prose drama, was translated by Jessie Muir; features an introduction by William Archer; and Contains: First Impression (1867); Second Impression (1882); and Third Impression (1898). His essay on Bjornson, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 ...