City Stages : Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City / Michael McKinnie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKinnie, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Klausner, David N.

Scholars Portal.

Series:

Cultural spaces.

Cultural studies series (Toronto, Ont.)

Cultural Spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Ontario--Toronto--History.

Theater.

Theaters--Social aspects--Ontario--Toronto--History.

Theaters.

Theater--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.

Theater and society--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century.

Theater and society.

Herefordshire (England)--History--Sources.

Herefordshire (England).

Worcestershire (England)--History--Sources.

Worcestershire (England).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies - their sites and practices - in Toronto's urban environment, Michael McKinnie focuses on the ways in which the theatre has adapted to changes in civic ideology, environment, and economy. Over the past four decades, theatre in Toronto has been increasingly implicated in the civic self-fashioning of the city and preoccupied with the consequences of the changing urban political economy. City Stages investigates a number of key questions that relate to this pattern. How has theatre been used to justify certain forms of urban development in Toronto? How have local real estate markets influenced the ways in which theatre companies acquire and use performance space? How does the analysis of theatre as an urban phenomenon complicate Canadian theatre historiography? McKinnie uses the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts as case studies and considers theatrical companies such as Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Workshop Productions, Buddies in Bad Times, and Necessary Angel in his analysis. City Stages combines primary archival research with the scholarly literature emerging from both the humanities and social sciences. The result is a comprehensive and empirical examination of the relationship between the theatrical arts and the urban spaces that house them.

Contents:

Towards an urban analysis of theatre in Toronto

Urban national, suburban transnational : civic theatres and the urban development of Toronto's downtowns

Good times, inc. : constructing a civic play economy in the entertainment district

Space administration : locating an urban history of theatre passe muraille

A troubled home : spatializing the demise of Toronto workshop productions

Movin' on up : spatial scarcity, cultural equity, and the geography of theatrical legitimacy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-169) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9781442669444

1442669446

9781442615977

1442615974

9781442684195

1442684194

OCLC:

427681228