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The Art of Theatre Then and Now Product Detail:
- Author : William Missouri Downs
- Publisher : Cengage Learning
- Release : 01 January 2012
- ISBN : 9781133713494
- Page : 496 pages
- Rating : 4.5/5 from 103 voters
The Art of Theatre Then and Now Book Summary/Review:
THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW, Third Edition, explores issues of cultural diversity and creativity, presents a full day-in-the-life of theatre, and offers comprehensive coverage of theatre history. The authors make timely and relevant connections between theatre and the familiar world of television and film to help students understand how the living art of theatre relates to and influences today's screen entertainment. For flexibility in the way you teach, THE ART OF THEATRE is available in two versions. This full version contains 17 chapters, six of which cover theatre history in both Western and non-Western contexts, and concludes with a chapter on The Musical. THE ART OF THEATRE: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION features 12 chapters and a briefer treatment of theatre's history, and also features a chapter on The Musical. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
The Art of Theatre: Then and Now
- Author : William Missouri Downs,Wright,Erik Ramsey
- Publisher : Cengage Learning
- Release Date : 2016-10-05
- ISBN : 9781337517430
Bringing the fascinating world of theatre to life, THE ART OF THEATRE: THEN AND NOW, 4th Edition, delivers comprehensive yet lively coverage of the history, cultural diversity, creativity, controversy, and even a typical day in the life of theatre -- packaged in seventeen stand-alone chapters that can be studied in any order. The text is packed with useful information that readers can apply to their own lives, including material on copyrights, the National Endowment for the Arts, censorship, and freedom
The Uncapturable
- Author : Rubén Szuchmacher
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
- Release Date : 2020-09-03
- ISBN : 9781350138865
The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on the art of the mise en scène from the perspective of leading Argentinian theatre director Rubén Szuchmacher. It offers a timely and concise, though comprehensive, survey of the role and responsibility of the theatre director from the earliest times to the twenty-first century. Szuchmacher defines theatre as the confluence of four art forms - architecture, visual art, sound and literature - whose works only truly exist in the moment of encounter
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
- Author : Patrick Carnegy
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 2006
- ISBN : UOM:39015066877443
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The Moscow Art Theatre Letters
- Author : Jean Benedetti
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2013-10-08
- ISBN : 9781135861490
Moscow Art Theatre Letters tells the real story of the Moscow Art Theatre, from its origin at the turn of the century through its first forty years. Jean Benedetti presents the historical record first-hand in this collection of the letters of the main protagonists. Many are available in English for the first time--all will come as a revelation to Western readers.
"Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850 "
- Author : Richard Wrigley
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2017-07-05
- ISBN : 9781351575355
Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions maps some of the many complex and vivid connections between art, theatre, and opera in a period of dramatic and challenging historical change, thereby deepening an understanding of familiar (and less familiar) artworks, practices, and critical strategies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period, new types of subject matter were shared, fostering both creative connections and reflection on matters of decorum, legibility, pictorial, and dramatic structure. Correspondances were
Theatre

- Author : Jerry V. Pickering
- Publisher : West Group
- Release Date : 1978
- ISBN : 0829902007
Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre
- Author : and translated by Vera Gottlieb
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2010-06-15
- ISBN : 9781134286904
The Moscow Art Theatre is still recognized as having more impact on modern theatre than any company in the world. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced facsimile edition of a Russian journal from 1914 documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the Moscow Art Theatre, including: *The Seagull, *Three Sisters *Uncle Vanya *Cherry Orchard *Ivanov. Edited by renowned theatre historian Vera Gottlieb, the volume also reproduces - for the first time in an English translation -
Stanislavsky in Focus
- Author : Sharon Marie Carnicke
- Publisher : Taylor & Francis
- Release Date : 2009
- ISBN : 9780415774963
This new edition has been updated to address all of the relevant scholarship to have been published since the work's original publication, and features an expanded glossary, making it of even greater use to teachers, directors, actors and students.
On the Art of the Theatre
- Author : Edward Gordon Craig
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2008-09-25
- ISBN : 9781134058709
First published in 1911, On the Art of the Theatre remains one of the seminal texts of theatre theory and practice. Actor, director, designer and pioneering theorist, Edward Gordon Craig was one of twentieth century theatre’s great modernisers. Here, he is eloquent and entertaining in expounding his views on the theatre; a crucial and prescient contribution that retains its relevance almost a century later. This reissue contains a wealth of new features: a specially written Introduction and notes from editor
The Art of the Theatre
- Author : John R. Crawford
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 1999
- ISBN : 0828113769
The Moscow Art Theatre
- Author : Nick Worrall
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release Date : 2003-08-29
- ISBN : 9781134935871
Unprecedented in its comprehensiveness, The Moscow Art Theatre fills a large gap in our knowledge of Stanislavsky and his theatre. Worrall focuses in particular detail on four of The Moscow Art Theatre's best-known productions: * Tolstoy's Tsar Fedor Ioannovich * Gorky's The Lower Depths * Chekov's The Cherry Orchard * Turgenev's A Month in the Country
Stanislavsky in Focus
- Author : Anonim
- Publisher : Taylor & Francis
- Release Date : 2022-06-25
- ISBN : 0987654321XXX
On the Art of the Theatre

- Author : Edward Gordon Craig
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 1956
- ISBN : 087830570X
The American Repertory Theatre Reference Book
- Author : Marilyn Plotkins
- Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
- Release Date : 2005
- ISBN : 0313289131
A comprehensive reference guide to the history of the American Repertory Theater ( A.R.T.), its programming and the theater artists who shape its distinctive character.
The Art of the Playwright
- Author : William Packard
- Publisher : New York : Paragon House Publishers
- Release Date : 1987
- ISBN : STANFORD:36105002575988