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Books on: russian theatre

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The Russian Theatre

Book by Oliver M. Sayler; Brentanos, 1922

Subjects:

Theater--Soviet Union

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

THE RUSSIAN THEATRE The Russian Theatre By Oliver M. Sayler Author of RUSSIA WHITE OR RED...establish contact between it and a situation which has brought the Russian theatre emphatically into the foreground of our dramatic vision...
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The New Spirit in the Russian Theatre, 1917-28: And a Sketch of the Russian Kinema and Radio, 1919-28, Showing the New Communal Relationship between the Three

Book by Huntly Carter; Brentanos Ltd., 1929

Subjects:

Motion Pictures, Radio, Theater--Soviet Union

Collections: Entire Library

THE NEW SPIRIT IN THE RUSSIAN THEATRE THE AGE OF CONSTRUCTIVE-SYNTHESIS IN THE NEW RUSSIAN THEATRE A vertical construction...Appendix 7. THE NEW SPIRIT IN THE RUSSIAN THEATRE 1917-28. AND A SKETCH...
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Reference Guide to Russian Literature

Book by Neil Cornwell, Nicole Christian; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998

Subjects:

Russian Literature--Bio-Bibliogaphy--Dictionaries, Russian Literature--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Reference Guide to Russian Literature includes entries on more than 250 Russian writers and some 300 important works of Russian literature.
The Reference Guide to Russian Literature is introduced by survey articles, written by scholars in the field, that put the writers and works entries into the ...
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Reference Guide to Russian Literature includes entries on more than 250 Russian writers and some 300 important works of Russian literature.
The Reference Guide to Russian Literature is introduced by survey articles, written by scholars in the field, that put the writers and works entries into the contexts of history and genre. Appendices include a general bibliography of anthologies and critical studies of Russian literature, followed by a Title Index.
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Women and Russian Culture: Projections and Self- Perceptions

Book by Rosalind Marsh; Berghahn Books, 1998

Subjects:

Russia--Intellectual Life, Russian Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Russian Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Russian Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This collection of essays by leading western and Russian specialists contains new insights and updates previous research into the role of women in Russian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Masterpieces of the Russian Drama - Vol. 1

Book by George Rapall Noyes; Dover Publications, 1960

Subjects:

Russia--Drama, Russian Drama--Translations Into English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Boston, 1924 ; Sayler, The Russian Theatre New York, 1922 ; Carter...and The New Spirit in the Russian Theatre, 1917-28 New York, 1929...1928 ; Znosko-Borovsky, The Russian Theatre in Russian: Prague, 1925...

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Journal Articles on: russian theatre

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Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter. the Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theatre

Journal article by Nicholas Rzhevsky; Comparative Drama, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theatre (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Wirtschafter. the Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theatre. by Nicholas Rzhevsky...considerable light on the formation of Russian society in the eighteenth century...theater both reflects and shapes Russian social history at a crucial moment...
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The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

Journal article by Diane Oenning Thompson; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 33, 2003

Subjects:

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Briggs traces the development of the pre-revolutionary Russian theatre, from its origins in the eighteenth century to its...206). Those interested in the post-revolutionary Russian theatre, including the post-Soviet scene, will find solid...
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Ian Carruthers and Takahashi Yasunari. the Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi

Journal article by Loren Edelson; Comparative Drama, Vol. 39, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Betsuyaku Minoru, Suzuki, like other directors of the "small theatre movement," grew increasingly interested in prioritizing the...actors, at times, appear to embody techniques that smack of the Russian directors methodology. Most telling is an anecdote in which...
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Helka Maniken, S. E. Wilmer, and W. B. Worthen, Eds. Theatre, History, and National Identities

Journal article by Stratos E. Constantinidis; Comparative Drama, 2002

Subjects:

Theatre, History, and National Identities (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies at the University of...theaters had with the imperial Russian and British governments in...was introduced by the Habima Theatre (initially called the "Biblical...Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870) because...
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The Madison Square Theatre: Stage Practice and Technology in Transition

Journal article by J.A. Sokalski; Theatre History Studies, 2001

Subjects:

Architecture, American--1880, MacKaye, Steele--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Madison Square Theatre--History, New York, New York--History, Stage lighting--History, Stage machinery--History, Theaters--1880

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...practices at this theatre. The two plays were: A Russian Honeymoon, by...running of this theatre, the photographs...found in The Russian Honeymoon, and...productions of The Russian Honeymoon, and...1883-1939; From the Theatre and Music Collection...

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Magazine Articles on: russian theatre

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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

Collections: Entire Library

...the Two Opposing Titans of Russian Theatre, Are the Seeds for Renewal and...Smeliansky) on the state of Russian theatre today. ANATOLY SMELIANSKY...connection to the real roots of Russian theatre, because Meyerhold and Stanislavsky...
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Russian Redressing

Magazine article by Janice Paran; American Theatre, Vol. 12, July 1995

Subjects:

Dramatists--Works, Ostrovsky, Alexander--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...from childhood; theatre types; her struggle...the 19th-century Russian stage hardly counts...David Mamet into Russian, Monte muses, might...of the American theatre, and there is some...greatest of all Russian playwrights." Instead...her Bentley modem theatre collection, which...
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Egloff Riffs Russian

Magazine article by Elizabeth Bennett; American Theatre, Vol. 13, March 1996

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dramatists--Works, Egloff, Elizabeth--Works, Turgenev, Ivan--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Egloff riffs Russian by Elizabeth Bennett...recently at New Yorks Roundabout Theatre and Washington, D.C.s Arena...adaptations being produced at theatres across the country. "As Americans...Stage and the Yale Repertory Theatre.
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Who Needs Moscow? A Guru of Russian Playwriting Holds Court in Distant Ekaterinburg

Magazine article by Murph Henderson; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

Subjects:

Dramatists--Appreciation, Dramatists--Works, Kolyada, Nikolai--Appreciation, Kolyada, Nikolai--Works, Playwrights--Appreciation, Playwrights--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...Moscow? A Guru of Russian Playwriting Holds...Before shows at his theatre, patrons eat his...on contemporary Russian theatre," Loevsky tells...Oleg Bogaev, whose Russian National Postal...Washington, D.C.s Studio Theatre, and Vassily Sigarev...
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Anatoly Smeliansky

Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 11, September 1994

Subjects:

Moscow Art Theater--Officials and employees, Smeliansky, Anatoly--Attitudes, Theatre Communications Group--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...Revolution in the Mirror of Russian Theatre," inspiring the listeners with...in the theatre, because for Russians theatre is the place for togetherness...believe you!" On metaphor: Russian theatre lost its virginity, but its...

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Newspaper Articles on: russian theatre

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Culture: High Spirit, but the Swan Dies; Producer Ellen Kent Has Teamed Up with Russian Classical Ballet Theatre to Bring Lavish Productions of Swan Lake and Coppelia to Sunderland Empire, as She Tells Tamzin Lewis

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 13, 2007

Subjects:

Ballet, Ballets

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

...Kent Has Teamed Up with Russian Classical Ballet Theatre to Bring Lavish Productions...last year reshaping the Russian Classical Ballet Theatre, naturally has a vodka...of forming a new look Russian Classical Ballet Theatre, using top dancers...
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FOUND HELEN'S RUSSIAN RELATIVES; HELEN'S Dame Helen Mirren Thought They Died in the Gulag. but Now the MoS Has Traced the Fascinating Story of Her Surviving Family - and, Amazingly, They Share Her Passion for the Theatre

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 15, 2006

Subjects:

Actors, Actresses, Mirren, Helen

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

...Passion for the Theatre. Byline: WILL...Although written in Russian and therefore incomprehensible...unfiled papers on the Russian nobility made the...proving that the theatre is in Mirrens blood...a typist for the Russian writer Maxim Gorky...often went to the theatre, said Zimina. They...
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How We Reinvented Chekhov; the Great Russian Dramatist Died 100 Years Ago This Week and His Plays Have Never Been More Popular. That, Says Our Theatre Critic, Is Because We Have Recast Chekhov as an English Country Gentlemen Instead of the Blazing Social Reformer He Was

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 12, 2004

Subjects:

Chekhov, Anton

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

...Reinvented Chekhov; the Great Russian Dramatist Died 100 Years Ago...More Popular. That, Says Our Theatre Critic, Is Because We Have...JONGH ANTON Chekhov, the Russian doctor who wrote plays and...often come to bury the original Russian and recreate him as an honorary...
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PERSPECTIVE: Derren Brown - He's Just Mind Boggling; He's Wowed TV Audiences with Live Seances and Russian Roulette and Now He's Coming to a Theatre near You. Emma Pinch Caught Up with Derren Brown

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 28, 2005

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

PERSPECTIVE: Derren Brown - Hes Just Mind Boggling; Hes Wowed TV Audiences with Live Seances and Russian Roulette and Now Hes Coming to a Theatre near You. Emma Pinch Caught Up with Derren Brown. Byline: Emma Pinch Derren Brown has a secret...
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IT'S PLAYTIME; This Is a Caption, This Is a Caption , This Is a Caption ; Unhappy Families: The Moody Cast of Is This about Sex? ; American Burlesque Star Julie Atlas Muz Is the Star of Gorgeous Morons at the New Theatre ; Atlas Muz in Gorgeous Morons ; School Daze: The Pupils in the History Boys

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 28, 2007

Subjects:

Dublin Theatre Festival

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

...College. Heres hoping nobodydrops dead on stage. o OReilly Theatre, Belvedere College, tickets currency25-currency30 (Oct. 10...Vanya was first producedby the Gate in 1998. Set in a decaying Russian estate run by Vanya and hisniece Sonya, the arrival of Vanyas...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: russian theatre

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Russian Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...as Falconet and Vigee Le Brun, came to St. Petersburg while Russian artists started to receive their training abroad. Portrait...including Thomas de Thoman (1754 1813), who built the Bolshoi Theatre. The Greek revival style also came into vogue, and is revealed...
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Karsavina, Tamara

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...ma r K rsa vyin , 1885 1978, Russian prima ballerina. Karsavina was trained in the Imperial Theatre School and the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, making her...include her reminiscences, Theatre Street (1931, 2d ed. 1981...
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ThÉÂtre Libre

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...and of contemporary German, Scandinavian, and Russian masters were produced. The Theatre Libre became a model for experimental theaters...States. See S. M. Waxman, Antoine and the Theatre-Libre (1926). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Plisetskaya, Maya

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

PLISETSKAYA, MAYA ma ya plesets kaya, 1925 , Russian dancer. Pliesetskaya became a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on graduating from its school in 1943. She soon gained recognition as one of the worlds foremost ballerinas, combining...
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Roerich, Nicholas Konstantin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...ROERICH, NICHOLAS KONSTANTIN ne kolous k nst ntyen ror ikh, 1874 1947, Russian artist, scene designer, and archaeologist. He was connected with the Moscow Art Theatre and the Diaghilev ballet. His stage sets for Stravinskys Sacre du printemps...

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