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Oscar Gross Brockett (March 18, 1923 – November 7, 2010) was president of the American Theatre Association. An American Theater historian, he was Dean of the ...
At this theatre : 100 years of Broadway shows, stories and stars (2002) online; Brockett, Oscar G., and Robert R. Findlay. "Century of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870." (1973). online; Brown, Gene. Show time: a chronology of Broadway and the theatre from its beginnings to the present (1997) online ...
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment, and theatrical or performative elements in other activities. The history of theatre is primarily concerned ...
On the night of January 5, 1935, some members of the group participated in a benefit performance for the New Theatre Magazine. Written by Clifford Odets and directed by Odets and Sanford Meisner, the one-act play Waiting for Lefty was performed at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City and became a theatrical legend. [8]
He is best known for creating The Laramie Project (2000) with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He has directed extensively on Broadway and Internationally, and is the author of numerous plays, including Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations.
Alexander Tairov and the 1930 World Tour of the Kamerny Theatre. Brockett, Oscar Gross, ed. Studies in Theatre and Drama; Essays in Honor of Hubert C. Heffner. The Hague: Mouton, 1972, pp. 177-194. Marshall, Herbert. The Pictorial History of the Russian Theatre. New York: Crown Publishers, 1977. Roose-Evans, James.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre — 1946 to 1947: Shrine Civic Auditorium — 1948: The Academy Award Theater — 1949 to 1951: RKO Pantages Theatre — 1952: RKO Pantages Theatre and NBC International Theatre — 1953 to 1956: RKO Pantages Theatre and NBC Century Theatre — 1957 to 1959: RKO Pantages Theatre — 1960 to 1967: Santa Monica Civic ...
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...