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Books on: 20th century american theater

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Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama and Theater: An American Reception, 1977-1999

Book by Hellmut Hal Rennert; Peter Lang, 2004

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German Drama--20th Century--Appreciation--United States, German Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Theater--Germany--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Data Essays on twentieth-century German drama and theater: an American reception 1977-1999 / edited...references. 1. German drama-20th century-History and criticism. 2. Theater-Germany- History-20th century. 3. German drama...
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American Theater of the 1960s

Book by Zoltán Szilassy; Southern Illinois University Press, 1986

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American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, Experimental Theater--United States, Theater--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Data Szilassy, Zoltan, 1947- American theater of the 1960s Crosscurrents/modern...United States -- History -- 20th century. 2. Experimental theater...States. 3. American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism. I...
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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Humor

Book by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Don L. F. Nilsen; Oryx Press, 2000

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American Wit And Humor--20th Century--Encyclopedias

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...black humor include gallows humor , the American absurd novel, Yankee existentialism, the anti-novel, theater of the absurd , and film noir . Critic...James Donleavy 1958 The Ginger Man . The American public at large has appreciated black...
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Epistolary Responses: The Letter in 20th-Century American Fiction and Criticism

Book by Anne Bower; University of Alabama Press, 1997

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Criticism--United States--History--20th Century, Epistolary Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Fiction, Letters In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...spiritual, economic, and personal wrongs she observes and experiences. Richardson adopted a female voice and a domestic theater of operation, opening up possibilities for cultural critique Armstrong 28 . 2 Through Pamelas letters he sought social change...
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The Simple Stage: Its Origins in the Modern American Theater

Book by Arthur Feinsod; Greenwood Press, 1992

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Drama, Theater--United States--History--20th Century, Theaters--Stage-Setting And Scenery--United States--History--20th Century

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...influenced the American simplifiers directly...the attention of American theater artists during the 1920s when the Americans saw European productions...At home, the American simplifiers were...the nineteenth-century Euro-American...

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Journal Articles on: 20th century american theater

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Paul Laurence Dunbar and Turn-into-the-20th-Century African American Dualism

Journal article by James Smethurst; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

Subjects:

Activists--Comparative analysis, Activists--Works, African American authors--Comparative analysis, African American authors--Works, African American literature--Study and teaching, African American writers--Comparative analysis, African American writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Study and teaching, Du Bois, W.E.B.--Comparative analysis, Du Bois, W.E.B.--Works, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Comparative analysis, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Works, Political activists--Comparative analysis, Political activists--Works, Reformers--Comparative analysis, Reformers--Works, Social reformers--Comparative analysis, Social reformers--Works

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...white (and black) Americans, further setting the...constrains African American artists, and on and...representations of African Americans and African American cultures circulating in the late nineteenth century had existed for decades...
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What Makes "Jazz" the Revolutionary Music of the 20th Century, and Will It Be Revolutionary for the 21st Century?

Journal article by Fred Wei-Han Ho; African American Review, Vol. 29, 1995

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Jazz music--Analysis

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...music of the 20th century, and will...or Asian American. More problematical...and South Americans, and Caribbean...simply said "20th-century...ballets, theater and film...of African American music is...future." 20th-century African American...
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Living with It: The Comic Valedictories of Faulkner and O'neill, "Ah, Wilderness!" and the Reivers

Journal article by Eleanor Heginbotham; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 28, 2000

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Ah, Wilderness! (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors--20th century, Dramatists--20th century, Faulkner, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., O'Neill, Eugene--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Reivers (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...the typical middle class hard working American of the average large small town which...simple people of another day but real American people ... And a comedy! Its damned...love set against the self-consciously American small town virtues, is how little such...
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An American in Ireland: The Representation of the American in Brian Friel's Plays

Journal article by Maria Germanou; Comparative Drama, Vol. 38, 2004

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American identity--20th century AD, American identity--Analysis, American identity--Observations, American identity--Social aspects, Dramatists--20th century AD, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Friel, Brian--Criticism and interpretation, Friel, Brian--Works, Irish drama--20th century AD, Irish drama--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--20th century AD, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works

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...Germanou Twentieth-century Irish theater has been traversed...and knowledge as the American attempts to define...is dismantled as the American occasionally desires...English judge and an American sociologist, Dr...found wanting, and the Americans scientific impartiality...
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American Literary Realism and the Problem of Trompe l'Oeil Painting

Journal article by Anne Trubek; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 34, 2001

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American literature--20th century, Realism in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Trompe l'oeil painting--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge...Gallery." North American Review 33 (October...Construction of American Realism. Chicago...Nineteenth-Century America. New...Rightly Seen." American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism...

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Magazine Articles on: 20th century american theater

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Aunt Ester's Children: A Century on Stage; This Essay, Which Serves as the Preface to King Hedley II (TCG Books), Was Written in the Spring of 2000, before the Playwright Had Begun the Final Two Plays in His 20th-Century Cycle. It First Appeared in the New York Times (April 23, 2000)

Magazine article by August Wilson; American Theatre, Vol. 22, November 2005

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African American dramatists--Works, African American playwrights--Works, African American theater--Criticism and interpretation

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...Esters Children: A Century on Stage; This Essay...Final Two Plays in His 20th-Century Cycle. It...playwright, I am an African American. The tributary streams...art. As an African-American playwright, I have...cultural values of black Americans to a level equal to...particulars of black American culture as the transformation...
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Excerpt from the New 'Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century': Revised Edition of Black History Classic Says Blacks Colored and Shaped America's 20th Century

Magazine article by Lerone Jr. Bennett; Ebony, Vol. 58, July 2003

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Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century (Book)--Excerpts

Collections: History, Entire Library

...African-American Century: revised edition...shaped Americas 20th century. by Lerone...century the African-American Century. A hundred...backwaters of the American mind, rearranging...that African-Americans made their greatest...Douglas Turner Ward in theater, James Baldwin...the turn of the 20th century, to Chicagos...
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Theatre-Made America: 20th-Century America Has Been Created in the Likeness of Theatre Architecture and Scenic Design

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Designing Modern America: Broadway to Main Street (Book)--Book reviews, George Tsypin Opera Factory: Building in the Black Void (Book)--Book reviews, Theaters (Book)--Book reviews

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...Made America: 20th-Century America Has Been...pp, $40 cloth. THEATERS By Craig Morrison...entire gaggle of 20th-century Broadway...altered the face of American theatre and helped...lifestyles of everyday Americans. You cant really...sleek and elegant 20th century, maybe...
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A National Negro Theater That Never Was

Magazine article by Rena Fraden; American Visions, Vol. 9, October 1994

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African American theater--History, Minstrel shows--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...national negro theater that never was...as have African Americans, neither has any...19th and early 20th centuries, operated for...theater for African Americans, however, was...For African-American intellectuals in the early part of the 20th century (and for scholars...
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On the 21st Century

Magazine article by Teresa Eyring; American Theatre, Vol. 24, May-June 2007

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American drama--Economic aspects, American drama--Forecasts and trends, Theater companies--Economic aspects

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On the 21st Century. by Teresa Eyring Standing...some impressive whole. The 20th century was revolutionary for...frontier for theatre in the 20th century had to do with artistry...going strong. Whereas the 20th century realized a web of theatres...

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Newspaper Articles on: 20th century american theater

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American Icon the Goodman Theatre Honors Chicagoan David Mamet by Staging a Series of His Plays. We Take the Occasion to Talk to Local Actors and Directors about the Enigmatic Playwright and His Contributions to American Theater. and Our Own Jack Helbig Reminisces about Being a Student in Mamet's Class at the University of Chicago

Newspaper article by Jack Helbig; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 24, 2006

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American Icon the Goodman Theatre...and His Contributions to American Theater. and Our Own Jack Helbig...writing some of the best American plays of the last three decades of the 20th century. People dont think of...
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Area Stages Offering Free Night of Theater; Want to Introduce Their Acts to Wider Audience

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 12, 2006

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Play), Arena Stage (Theater group), My Fair Lady (Play), Theatre Communications Group

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...women and one American-Iraqi who share...music of the 20th century, at Signature Theater in Arlington...a brand-new theater in Shirlington...areas oldest theaters is in Olney...a Washington theater pioneer and master...
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Getting Their Act Together; Local Theaters Offer Amateurs Lessons in Directing, Other Skills

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 6, 2006

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Theater

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Together; Local Theaters Offer Amateurs...weekends at local theaters under the...influential early-20th-century actor-director...luck in the theater world, confirms...also is a 20th-century American drama class...held at the theaters administrative...
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Visiting with a 20th-Century 'Master'

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 4, 2007

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Coward, Noel

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Visiting with a 20th-Century Master. Byline: Mike Michaelson...literary and musical worlds in the 20th century. These 10 "views" are presented...of the most glamorous legends in American Theater history." David Hyde Pierce, multiple...
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A Heston to Remember; Almost Too Big for the 20th Century

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 19, 2002

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Heston, Charlton

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Almost too big for the 20th century Byline: Richard Dreyfuss...almost too big for the 20th Century, let alone TV. But...mysterioso of the movie theater, Charlton Heston was...could go. The only other American actor so comfortable...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 20th century american theater

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Theater

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...construct theaters on Roman...development of the theater form that...until the 20th cent. began...The Spanish theater developed...England. These theaters offered greater...throughout 18th-century Europe...Nineteenth Centuries The development...Twentieth-Century Theaters...independent theaters were also...the early 20th cent...movements in theater were developing...popular at American universities...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...published until two centuries after his death...infant American theater showed a nationalistic...first professional American novelist, Charles...every aspiring American writer and was...attention by presenting American folk stories...won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing...War and into the 20th cent. continued...The Turn of the Century Trends in American...
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Kazan, Elia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...k zan , zan , 1909 2003, American stage and film director...the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he admitted to...acting style of the mid-20th-century New York theater into American moviemaking. Kazan won best...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...explored American culture with...echoes of the theater of cruelty...decades of the 20th century were also...productions by theater groups such...Ridiculous Theater, e.g...about African Americans emerged as...explored black American life; writers...the next century. Feminist...decades of the 20th cent. Homosexual...
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Directing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Asian drama ; theater ; acting ; scene...directors. During later centuries the stage manager...techniques. The 19th-century interest in realism...greatly influenced 20th-century theater...the 19th and early 20th cent., the American theater was dominated...productions of the late 20th cent. In the Brooks...

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