The San Francisco Stage, a History
Author | : Edmond McAdoo Gagey |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Theater |
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Author | : Edmond McAdoo Gagey |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Theater |
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Author | : Edmond McAdoo Gagey |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Edmond MacAdoo Gagey |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Misha Berson |
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Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Performing arts |
ISBN | : 9781881106036 |
Author | : Herbert Blau |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2013-03-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136343261 |
‘One of the great stories of the American theater..., the Workshop not only built an international reputation with its daring choice of plays and nontraditional productions, it also helped launch a movement of regional, or resident, companies that would change forever how Americans thought about and consumed theater.’ – Elin Diamond, from the Introduction Herbert Blau founded, with Jules Irving, the legendary Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, in 1952, starting with ten people in a loft above a judo academy. Over the course of the next 13 years and its hundred or so productions, it introduced American audiences to plays by Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Arden, Fornes, and various unknown others. Most of the productions were accompanied by a stunningly concise and often provocative programme note by Blau. These documents now comprise, within their compelling perspective, a critique of the modern theatre. They vividly reveal what these now canonical works could mean, first time round, and in the context of 1950s and 60s American culture, in the shadow of the Cold War. Programming Theater History curates these notes, with a selection of the Workshop's incrementally artful, alluring programme covers, Blau's recollections, and evocative production photographs, into a narrative of indispensable artefacts and observations. The result is an inspiring testimony by a giant of American performance theory and practice, and a unique reflection of what it is to create theatre history in the present.
Author | : Carolyn Grattan Eichin |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-02-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1948908379 |
Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation’s most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West’s hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. Using the vagaries of the West’s notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. From San Francisco Eastward is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region.
Author | : Jack Tillmany |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738530208 |
You read the sad stories in the papers: another ornate, 1920s, single-screen theatre closes, to be demolished and replaced by a strip mall. That's progress, and in this 20-screen multiplex world, it's happening more and more. Only a handful of the 100 or so neighborhood theatres that once graced these streets are left in San Francisco, but they live on in the photographs featured in this book. The heyday of such venues as the Clay, Noe, Metro, New Mission, Alexandria, Coronet, Fox, Uptown, Coliseum, Surf, El Rey, and Royal was a time when San Franciscans thronged to the movies and vaudeville shows, dressed to the hilt, to see and be seen in majestic art deco palaces. Unfortunately, this era has passed into history despite the dedicated efforts of many neighborhood preservation groups.
Author | : Lawrence Estavan |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0893704644 |
A history of the Italian-American operatic, dramatic, and comedic productions presented in the San Francisco Bay area through the Depression Era, with reminiscences of the leading players and impresarios of the time, reworked and re-edited by Mary A. Burgess from the Federal Writers Project production of 1939.
Author | : Dean Goodman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780939477012 |
Author | : Violet Lercara Chester |
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Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Theater |
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