Living Theatre

• Author : Edwin Wilson,Alvin Goldfarb
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2018
• ISBN : 0393602265

• Author : John Tytell
• Publisher : Grove Press
• Release Date : 1995
• ISBN : 0802134866

Provides a biography of the Living Theatre a radical American theatrical group known for violating taboos of culture and government

• Author : Living Theatre (Leicester, England)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1962
• ISBN : UCAL:$B384909

• Author : James Roose-Evans
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-10-08
• ISBN : 9781136092527

`It is a pleasure to read. Well-written, free of cant, impressively wide-ranging. The book is really an introduction to the avant-garde.' - John Lahr

• Author : Edwin Wilson,Alvin Goldfarb
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
• Release Date : 2006-12-13
• ISBN : 0073514136

This anthology of 18 plays offers a convenient and affordable alternative to ordering individual play scripts, with the additional benefit of a general introduction and headnotes.

• Author : Arnold Aronson
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : 0415241391

This book offers the first in-depth look at avant-garde theatre in the United States from the early 1950s to the 1990s looking at its origins and its theoretical foundations through an examination of literature, cinema and art.

• Author : Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release Date : 2008-03-03
• ISBN : 9780786437092

"This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists' lifestyles have influenced the larger American culture since the mid-19th century. The study explores the many ways in which America's experimental artists have impacted upon, and at times transformed, the culture of a modern industrial nation"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : James Martin Harding,Cindy Rosenthal
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 0472069543

Examines the artistry, politics, and legacies of radical theater groups that came to prominence in the US during the period of the late sixties and early seventies. This book considers how radical theaters sought to redefine the relationship between theater and political activism, and how they challenged the foundations of theater itself.

• Author : Marco Pustianaz
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-09-29
• ISBN : 9781000450545

Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of performances and installations by Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Forced Entertainment, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Blast Theory, LIGNA, Doris Salcedo, Graeme Miller, Lenz Rifrazioni, Cristina Rizzo ..., and expanding on the work

• Author : Don B. Wilmeth,Tice L. Miller
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1996-06-13
• ISBN : 0521564441

"This new and updated Guide, with over 2,700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the U.S., plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major U.S. cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Highly illustrated, the Guide is supplemented with

• Author : Beth Osnes,Sam Gill
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2001-01-01
• ISBN : 9780874367959

A groundbreaking, cross-cultural reference work exploring the diversity of expression found in rituals, festivals, and performances, uncovering acting techniques and practices from around the world. * A–Z entries span every region of the world and cover diverse topics from Ireland's Abbey Theatre to China's Zhang Mu (rod-puppet theater) * Beautiful illustrations include masks used in classical Greek dramas, an advertisement for a performance of Punch and Judy, the humorous puppet characters, and photographs of actors, performances, and ceremonies from Monty Python

• Author : Kathleen Cioffi
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-07-04
• ISBN : 9781134374380

The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its origins, in the 1950s, through to its decline in the late 1980s.

• Author : Theodore Shank
• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• Release Date : 2002
• ISBN : 0472085352

An update of this popular history of experimental American theater

• Author : Susan Kattwinkel
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : 0313316716

Brings together essays on direct audience participation in the work of fourteen widely varied theatrical and dance artists, covering performance genres of the past and present, popular entertainment and high art.

• Author : Eric Bentley
• Publisher : Northwestern University Press
• Release Date : 1987
• ISBN : 0810107333

Essays discuss Ibsen, Strindberg, O'Neill, Brecht, Shaw, acting styles, theater controversies, translation, regional drama, and the nature of theater.