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Makeshift Chicago stages : a century of theater and performance / edited by Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Theater.
- Experimental theater--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Experimental theater.
- Theater and society--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Theater and society.
- History.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Chicago Theater as Makeshift Performance / Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
- Part 1. Theater: Artistry Born of Ashes / Stuart J. Hecht
- Entertaining People: The 1893 Columbian Exposition Midway Plaisance / Rosemarie K. Bank
- From Marmalade to Gingerbread: The Columbian Exposition, Chicago's 57th Street Artist Colony, and the Theaters They Spawned / Stuart J. Hecht
- All Passes
- Art Alone Endures: Staging the New Drama at the Fine Arts Building / Shannon Epplett
- Part 2. From Mainstream to Institutionalized / Megan E. Geigner
- Pillars of the Community: Reversing the Flow between the Goodman and Immigrant Theater / Megan E. Geigner
- Theatrical Geographies of Segregation: Spatial Displacement in Theodore Ward's Big White Fog / Aaron Krall
- Lincoln Avenue and the Off-Loop Scene: Urban Renewal and the Early Years of the Chicago Storefront Movement / Cat Gleason
- Object Permanence: ImprovOlympic and the Legitimacy of Improv in Chicago / Travis Stern
- Part 3. Centering the Decentered, Itinerant, Civic, and Home / Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
- Reclaiming Space: An Oral History of Teatro Vista / Laura A. Lodewyck
- Temple-Swapping in the City: The Spatial Imaginary and Performances of Place-Making in the Work of Theaster Gates / LaRonika Marie Thomas
- Staging Private Homes and the Transformations of Public Lives: The Chicago Home Theater Festival / Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud in conversation with Irina Zadov, Laley Lippard, Aymar Jean Christian, and Meida McNeal
- Epilogue: Chicago Theater amid Pandemics / Megan E. Geigner and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Makeshift Chicago stages.
- ISBN:
- 9780810143838
- 0810143836
- Publisher Number:
- 40030640784
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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