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Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.

Placing playwright Samuel Beckett's work in important historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts, this book contains essays that demonstrate the playwright's impact on theater, performance, and visual arts during the latter half of the twentieth century.

Pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theatre, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness Faedra Chatard Carpenter explores how artists have challenged notions of racial identity.

How simulated experiences--from living history to emergency preparedness drills--create meaning in performance

Sheds light on the critical role that women artists have played in the evolution of the American avant-garde

American history as theater, and theater as the heart of American life

A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world

Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people.

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

Meditations on those entities the audience does not see--and their profound significance in the theater

Examines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new forms.

'Sails of the Herring Fleet' traces director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were virtually unknown and has remained a leading interpreter of Becket's work over four decades.

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.

A guide to the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, commenting on his work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, this book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism.

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

Examines one of the most radical and enduring changes introduced during the Civil Rights era - multiracial and cross-racial casting practices in American theatre. Multiracial casting is explored first through its history, then through its artistic, political, and pragmatic dimensions. It then focuses on case studies from the dominant genres of contemporary American theatre.

Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence--from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns--and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterful

The first philosophical study devoted solely to acting, offering a meditation on the spillover from acting to life