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| Author | : Billy J. Harbin |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Actors |
| ISBN | : 9780472068586 |
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
| Author | : Ken Furtado |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780810826892 |
Documenting the explosion of contemporary gay and lesbian theater, this bibliography provides a single reference for American gay and lesbian plays, playwrights, and companies, containing listings for more than 700 plays whose primary characters or themes are gay or lesbian. In addition to authors, titles, and synopses, the entries include information about acts, characters, settings, and music. Appendices provide data on how the plays can be obtained, a list of theaters that produce works with gay/lesbian themes, names and addresses of playwrights and agents, a list of related references, and a matrix for the quick location of plays that meet certain criteria. Indispensable for repertory companies, producers, directors, actors, and scholars.
| Author | : Alan Sinfield |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780300081022 |
This intriguing, authoritative book tracks stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day and examines scores of British and American plays and playwrights, including works by Wilde, Maugham, Coward, Hellman, O'Neill, Le Roi Jones, and Joe Orton.
| Author | : Ben Hodges |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 547 |
| Release | : 2003-09-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 147684836X |
(Applause Books). Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century, sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays, three are completely out of print. Included are The God of Venegeance (1918) by Sholom Ash, the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an English-language audience; Lillian Hellman's classic The Children's Hour (1933), initially banned in London and passed over for the Pulitzer Prize because of its subject matter; and Oscar Wilde (1938) by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, a major award-winning success that starred Robert Morley. More recent plays include Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band (1968), the first hit "out" gay play that was the most realistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gays on stage up to that time; Martin Sherman's Bent (1978), which daringly focused on the love between two Nazi concentration camp inmates and starred Richard Gere; William Hoffman's As Is (1985), which was one of the first plays to deal with the AIDS crisis and earned three Tony Award nominations; and Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994), which starred Nathan Lane and won the Tony Award for Best Play. The other plays are Edouard Bourdet's The Captive (1926), Ruth and Augustus Goetz's The Immoralist (1954) and Frank Marcus' The Killing of Sister George (1967). Forbidden Acts includes a broad range of theatrical genres: drama, tragedy, romance, comedy and farce. They remain vibrant and relevant today as a testament of art's ability to persevere in the face of oppression.
| Author | : Jordan Schildcrout |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2014-10-09 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0472052322 |
The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy. Murder Most Queer works to expose the forces that create the homophobic paradigm that imagines sexual and gender nonconformity as dangerous and destructive and to show how theater artists—and for the most part LGBT theater artists—have rewritten and radically altered the significance of the homicidal homosexual. Jordan Schildcrout argues that these figures, far from being simple reiterations of a homophobic archetype, are complex and challenging characters who enact trenchant fantasies of empowerment, replacing the shame and stigma of the abject with the defiance and freedom of the outlaw, giving voice to rage and resistance. These bold characters also probe the darker anxieties and fears that can affect queer lives and relationships. Instead of sentencing them to the prison of negative representations, this book analyzes the meanings in their acts of murder, confronting the real fears and desires condensed in those dramatic acts.
| Author | : Benjamin A. Hodges |
| Publisher | : Alyson Books |
| Total Pages | : 612 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781593500443 |
With a foreword by Harvey Fierstein and a new introduction toThe Boys in the Bandby Mart Crowley, twentieth century theatre is seen as a powerful force in bringing gay and lesbian characters and themes out of the closet and into the spotlight. These dramatic selections share themes of oppression countered by love, fear, anger, and humor–not only gay or lesbian, but universally human. Included are Harvey Fierstein'sTorch Song Trilogy, Tererrence McNally'sThe Ritz, Lanford Wilson'sFifth of July, Paula Vogel'sThe Baltimore Waltz, and many more. Ben Hodgesis an actor, director, theatre and independent film producer, and was executive director of Fat Chance Productions and the Ground Floor Theatre. He is editor ofForbidden Acts: Pioneering Gayand Lesbian Plays from the Twentieth Century, and co-editor ofTheCommercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals.
| Author | : David Savran |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780472068364 |
An eclectic collection of essays on theater and its decline as highbrow culture, under the influence of theme parks and blockbuster movies
| Author | : Kim Marra |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780472067497 |
Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
| Author | : Eric Lane |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books |
| Total Pages | : 568 |
| Release | : 1995-11 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
This exciting collection of contemporary plays explores a wide range of concerns facing gay men and lesbians. Presenting 17 one-act and full-length works by a new generation of American playwrights, this groundbreaking book reflects the diversity of voices emerging in today's theater.
| Author | : Stacy Ellen Wolf |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780472067725 |
The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand
