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The Cambridge companion to American theatre since 1945 / edited by Julia Listengarten, Stephen Di Benedetto.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to theatre and performance.
- Cambridge companions to theatre and performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--United States--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--United States--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.
- Contents:
- Broadway post-1945 to 1960 : shifting perspectives / Susan C.W. Abbotson
- Bridging the gap : Broadway and the experimental from the 1960s to 2020 / Cindy Rosenthal
- What's inside? Collaborative relationships at the heart of the American musical / Laura MacDonald
- Shaping Broadway and off-Broadway plays through collaborative playwrights, directors, designers, and companies / Jessica Silsby Brater
- Money matters : dismantling the narrative of the rise of regional theatre / Elizabeth A. Osborne
- When and where they enter : black and brown voices in American theatres / Faedra Chatard Carpenter
- El jardin m�agico : commissions, collaboration, and new play development in American regional theatre / David A. Crespy
- Experimental collectives of the sixties and their legacies / Timothy Youker
- Post-avant-garde theatre / Arnold Aronson
- Populist provocations & commercial cavalcades : popular entertainment and the rise of mass mediated performance / Chase Bringardner.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781108572101
- 1108572103
- 9781108570268
- 1108570267
- 9781108648134
- 1108648134
- OCLC:
- 1242018294
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