A Theater of Our Own - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Theater of Our Own write by Richard Christiansen. This book was released on 2004. A Theater of Our Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who produced the first stage adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" in 1902-nearly forty years before the movie classic?
How to Start Your Own Theater Company
How to Start Your Own Theater Company - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Start Your Own Theater Company write by Reginald Nelson. This book was released on 2010. How to Start Your Own Theater Company available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and navigating legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre, this journey behind the curtain reveals the nitty-gritty details--such as managing rent, parking, and safety issues; determining tax status and calculating budgets; and finding flexible day jobs--that are often overlooked amid the zeal of artistic pursuit. Inspired by Congo Square's own unique inception, the valuable how-to also speaks directly to the many underserved audiences who want to create their own companies, including African American, Asian American, Latino, physically challenged, and GLBT communities. With lists of Equity offices, legal advisers, and important organizations, this complete resource is sure to help ambitious theater lovers establish and maintain their own successful companies.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago
Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago write by John Mayer. This book was released on 2016-08-11. Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1974, a group of determined, young high school actors started doing plays under the name of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, eventually taking residence in the basement of a church in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago. Thus began their unlikely journey to become one of the most prominent theatre companies in the world. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has changed the face of American Theatre with its innovative approach that blends dynamic ensemble performance, honest, straightforward acting, and bold, thought-provoking stories to create compelling theatre. This is the first book to chronicle this iconic theatre company, offering an account of its early years and development, its work, and the methodologies that have made it one of the most influential ensemble theatres today. Through extensive, in-depth interviews conducted by the author with ensemble members, this book reveals the story of Steppenwolf's miraculous rise from basement to Broadway and beyond. Interviewees include co-founders Jeff Perry, Gary Sinise and Terry Kinney, along a myriad of ensemble, staff, board members and others.
Ensemble
Ensemble - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ensemble write by Mark Larson. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Ensemble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This definitive history brings Chicago’s celebrated theater and comedy scenes to life with stories from some of its biggest stars spanning sixty-five years. Chicago is a bona fide theater town, bursting with vitality that thrills local fans and produces generation after generation of world-renowned actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Now Mark Larson shares the rich theatrical history of Chicago through first-person accounts from the people who made it. Drawing from more than three hundred interviews, Larson weaves a narrative that expresses the spirit of Chicago’s ensemble ethos: the voices of celebrities such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Asner, George Wendt, Michael Shannon, and Tracy Letts comingle with stories from designers, composers, and others who have played a crucial role in making Chicago theater so powerful, influential, and unique. Among many other topics, this book explores the early days of the fabled Compass Players and the legendary Second City in the ‘50s and ‘60s; the rise of acclaimed ensembles like Steppenwolf in the ‘70s; the explosion of storefront and neighborhood companies in the ‘80s; and the enduring global influence of the city as the center of improv training and performance.
The Theater of War
The Theater of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theater of War write by Bryan Doerries. This book was released on 2016-08-23. The Theater of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.
