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Books on: russian theater

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Russian Theater from the Empire to the Soviets

Book by Marc Slonim; World Publishing, 1961

Subjects:

Drama--History And Criticism, Opera--Soviet Union, Theater--Soviet Union--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ordered the construction of a theater building later called the Bolshoy Large Theater, and in 1779 the Imperial...special Administration of Theaters was established by imperial...decree specified the sums the Russian Treasury had to pay to: 1...and grand opera; 2 Russian theater; 3 French theater; 4 German...
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Enemies of the People: The Destruction of Soviet Literary, Theater, and Film Arts in the 1930s

Book by Katherine Bliss Eaton; Northwestern University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Censorship--Soviet Union--History, Communism And Intellectuals--Soviet Union, Literature And State--Soviet Union, Motion Pictures--Soviet Union--History, Political Persecution--Soviet Union, Russian Literature--20th Century--Censorship, Russian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Theater--Soviet Union--History

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...now so commonplace in Western theater, which were intended to create...pioneered by Meyerhold and other Russian theater workers from about...and Kharkiv and, like his Russian counterparts, was part of...seas .48 In book design, Russian artists, encouraged by an...
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From Stanislavsky to Gorbachev: The Theater-Studios of Leningrad

Book by Douglas Graham Stenberg; Peter Lang, 1995

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Studio Theater--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--History--20th Century--Interviews

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...the aesthetics of his theater. 1 In his letter of...following translated from Russian: "It is impossible...actors are leaving the theater and changing their profession. The theaters are in a very bad state...money. Thus the small theaters either wear themselves...emigrating." 2 These Russian artists and scholars...School and lectured on theater and art at Colorado...
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Soviet Theaters, 1917-1941

Book by Yosyp Hirniak, Serge Orlovsky, Gabriel Ramensky, Boris Volkov, Peter Yershov, Martha Bradshaw; Research Program on the U.S.S.R., 1954

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Theater--Soviet Union

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...influence on circles outside the theater. Les Kurbas was forced to...was domiciled in the former Russian theater of Sinelnikov. The...influence of the prerevolutionary Russian theater and the Theater of...services of directors of the Russian provincial theater. The Theater...
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Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia

Book by E. Anthony Swift; University of California Press, 2002

Subjects:

Popular Culture--Russia, Theater--Russia--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...heard in the peoples theaters. The expansion of...stage, those educated Russians who began to promote peoples theaters in order to take a...Muscovy had no secular theater performances or professional...drama were a part of Russian folk culture and had...promoted the growth of theater. In the eighteenth...only were the imperial theaters established to serve...

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Journal Articles on: russian theater

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Chekhov and the Moscow Stage Today: Interviews with Leading Russian Theater Directors

Journal article by Elisabeth T. Rich; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 39, 2000

Subjects:

Fomenko, Petr, Kozakov, Mikhail, Mirzoev, Vladimir, Personal profiles, Russia, Tabakov, Oleg, Theater criticism, Theater directors & producers, Viktyuk, Roman, Zhenovach, Sergei

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...passions. There are theaters that supposedly...that the best Russian plays include...in. "Russian theater has never been...the West; the Russian painful, beautiful...the Moscow Art Theaters which defined twentieth-century theater with a number...his approach to theater in the proper context. "Russian culture has always...world outlook for Russians. The legacy that...
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To See It Feelingly: King Lear through Russian Eyes

Journal article by James M. Welsh; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 4, 1976

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Motion picture directors & producers, Russian history, Theater

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...Feelingly: King Lear through Russian Eyes by James M. Welsh King...based upon Boris Pasternaks Russian translation of the play. Photographed...of this tragedy through the theater: Peter Brook had directed...case at the Bolshoi Dramatic Theater in Leningrad.2 Kozintsevs...
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The New Russian Hamlet: without a Hero

Journal article by Anna Shulgat; Slavic and East European Performance, Vol. 27, 2007

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Butusov, Yuri, Krymov, Dmitry, Moscow Art Theatre, Russian literature, Stanislavsky Theater Studio, Theater criticism, Theater directors & producers

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The New Russian Hamlet: without a Hero by Anna Shulgat...Hamlet in jeans." Both directors used the Russian translation by Boris Pasternak. Lyubimov...productions of the 1990s, starring top Russian actors Yevgeny Mironov and Konstantin...
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Hard Travel: American Encounters with the Modern Russian Theatre

Journal article by Valleri J. Hohman; The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Vol. 19, 2007

Subjects:

Modernism, Publications, Russia, Russian Revolution, Russian literature, Sayler, Oliver M, Theater, Travel

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...they worked specifically to define Russian theatre and Russians in general for Americans in terms...model their work on the theatre of the Russians. In The Russian Theatre, Sayler adopts the strategies...a similar manner as he defines the Russian theatte and Russians in general in terms of his American...
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From Stage to Screen: the Impact of the German Theater on Max Ophüls

Journal article by Helmut G. Asper; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2005

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Motion picture directors & producers, Ophuls, Max, Personal profiles, Theater

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...theater. Ophuls grew up in the theater of the Weimar Republic and...author in numerous German theaters for twelve years (1920...included the revolutionary Russian stage and the theorists of Russian theater, especially director Alexander...

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Magazine Articles on: russian theater

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Vladimir Vasiliev: Hauling the Bolshoi into the Twentieth Century - One of the Great Russian Dancers Is Now in Charge of His Home Theater

Magazine article by Paul Ben-Itzak; Dance Magazine, Vol. 70, February 1996

Subjects:

Ballet companies--Russia, Bolshoi Ballet Company--Officials and employees, Choreographers--Attitudes, Grigorovich, Yuri--Public opinion, Vasiliev, Vladimir--Attitudes

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...of the house. The second theater, to be located near the first...the company while the main theater is being renovated, and ultimately...organized a reception at the theater on November 24. Approximately 300 Russian and foreign businesspeople...which was held in oen of the theaters gilded, cupid-adorned ceremonial...
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Western Theater's European Roots

Magazine article by John Elsom; World and I, Vol. 18, March 2003

Subjects:

Theater--History, Theater--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

Western Theaters European Roots. by JOHN ELSOM...the progenitors of Western theater, one must not lose sight...English transliteration of the Russian word for nightingale. In...sang for seven years in a Russian Orthodox choir. In her homeland...after dinner. In Western theater, masks are used as a kind...
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Get Physical: Movement Theater like Jump Broadens the Audience for Dance

Magazine article by Sylviane Gold; Dance Magazine, Vol. 81, October 2007

Subjects:

Dance--Social aspects, Dancing--Social aspects, Jump (Dance)--Performances, Musical theater--Evaluation

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...the popularity of a kind of theater that, while it seems to be...month at the Union Square Theater, it is a complete category...created in Seoul by a Korean theater troupe, the Yegam Theatre...crowd that went to Be and the theaters previous tenant, Slavas Snowshow...flavored mime-fest by the Russian clown Slava Polunin. (The...
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Dark Days for Theater Artaud

Magazine article by Rita Felciano; Dance Magazine, Vol. 76, November 2002

Subjects:

Theater Artaud--Planning, Theaters--Management, Theaters--Planning

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...who also sits on its Interim Theater Committee. "Right now what...which eventually became Theater Artaud, was used to manufacture...twelve years of its existence, Theater Artaud was administered by...visiting artists, among them Russian dissident poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko...Project Artaud has acquired the theaters assets-lighting and sound...
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Enemies: A Russian Love Story; Meyerhold and Stanislavsky, the Two Opposing Titans of Russian Theatre, Are the Seeds for Renewal and Reawakening in Today's Moscow

Magazine article by Lawrence Sacharow; American Theatre, Vol. 21, January 2004

Subjects:

Actors--Training, Actresses--Training, Meierhold, V.E.--Influence, Moscow Art Theater, Stanislavsky, Konstantin--Influence

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...Smeliansky) on the state of Russian theatre today. ANATOLY SMELIANSKY...Chekhov. In Chekhovs time, Russians used to say, "We are waiting...post-Soviet society), Russians are speaking a new language...glasnost: When a famous Russian actor of the Meyerhold Theatre...and Stanislavsky started Russian theatre together. Their...came up with in The Poor Theater. Its very important to understand...

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Newspaper Articles on: russian theater

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Analysis; Russia's Political Theater Reveals Future

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 13, 2007

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Putin, Vladimir, Theater

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

Analysis; Russias Political Theater Reveals Future. Byline: JIM HEINTZ Associated Press Writer MOSCOW - The Russian capital is one of the worlds great cities for theater, but this week the most striking stagecraft...the Kremlin. Over the past two days, Russians have watched the countrys political...
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* Theater Oobleck Presents an Encore Performance of David Isaacson's One-Man Sho

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 21, 2010

Subjects:

Theater

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...Sketchbook X, a mixed-media theater festival featuring 20 world...recipient of the emerging theater award; director and educator...for its support of Chicago theaters. The evening includes a cocktail...Silver Project, American Theater Companys yearlong 25th anniversary...his friend Paul Ree and a Russian woman named Lou Salome whose...
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1st Stage Takes Its Cue; Theater Company Fills Need in Tysons Corner

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 12, 2009

Subjects:

Theater, Theater companies, Winkler, David

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

1st Stage Takes Its Cue; Theater Company Fills Need in Tysons...toward the future. The budding theater company recently presented...voices could thrive. We need a theater that works like a teaching...their initial production, a Russian comedy called The Suicide...
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His Work in Musical Theater

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), December 24, 2010

Subjects:

Musical theater, Sondheim, Stephen

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

...patters, Dutch clog dance, Russian dirge and French can-can...PUBLIC, AND THE GREATEST THEATER STORY EVER TOLD By Kenneth...Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater - two institutions that under...revolutionary and enduring American theater. To tell this fascinating...Patti LuPone is one of the theaters most beloved leading ladies...
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Theater of Young Fuels Western Life; Writer Finds 19th-Century Start, but Teenage Role Grows after War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 20, 2007

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Adolescence, Theater

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

Theater of Young Fuels Western Life; Writer Finds...of spoiled angst found in the diaries of Russian emigre Marie Bashkirtseff (1875), to...Western youth culture affords adolescents a "theater within which to enact" feelings of angst...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: russian theater

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Moscow Art Theater

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

MOSCOW ART THEATER Russian repertory company founded in 1897 by Constantin Stanislavsky...theatrical production and marked the beginning of modern theater. Rebelling against the highly stylized theater of the 19th cent., the founders set out to create...
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Russian Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the first work in colloquial Russian. Western Influence: The Seventeenth...establishment (1662) of the first theater in Russia. Under Peter I the...accelerated; at the same time the Russian alphabet was revised and Russian works began to be published...
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Meyerhold, Vsevolod

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...VSEVOLOD f sye v lut me urholt, 1874 1940?, Russian theatrical director and producer. Meyerhold led the revolt against naturalism in the Russian theater. Working with the Moscow Art Theater , he experimented with his own directing ideas...
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Yaroslavl

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...capital. In 1564 the first modern Russian ships were built at Yaroslavl...cloth factory. It was a major Russian manufacturing city by the 18th...regarded as the founder of the Russian theater, organized his first dramatic...
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Goldfaden, Abraham

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Yiddish playwright and a leading figure in Yiddish theater. In 1876 he combined some of his songs and poems...were initially performed in Jassy, Romania. Russian authorities banned Yiddish theater in 1883, and Goldfaden and his followers founded...

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