Showtime in Cleveland - 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 Showtime in Cleveland write by John Vacha. This book was released on 2001. Showtime in Cleveland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work takes the reader from the city's first professional theatrical presentation in 1820, through the heyday of vaudeville, to the grand reopening of the newly renovated Allen Theatre in 1999 and the return of touring Broadway shows to Cleveland. In 1820 Cleveland was able to draw a visit from a troupe of professional actors. With no theater in which to perform, the troupe made do with Mowrey's Tavern on Public Square, where a standing-room-only audience saw The Purse; or the Benevolent Tar. It was five years before another professional company would visit. As the city grew, theater blossomed and vaudeville flourished. In the early 1920s, five magnificent theaters opened at Playhouse Square - the State and the Palace, for mixed programs of vaudeville and movies; the Hanna Theater and Ohio, for legitimate Broadway-style theater, and the Allen, for movies. Cleveland was also in the vanguard of the little theater movement with the establishment of the Cleveland Play House and the interracial Karamu Theatre. After a period of decline in the 1960s and 1970s, live theater was reborn in Playhouse Square, which is now the second-largest performing arts complex in the country, and a
America’s First Regional Theatre
America’s First Regional Theatre - 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 America’s First Regional Theatre write by J. Ullom. This book was released on 2014-05-14. America’s First Regional Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cleveland Play House has mirrored the achievements and struggles of both the city of Cleveland and the American theatre over the past one hundred years. This book challenges the established history (often put forward by the theatre itself) and long-held assumptions concerning the creation of the institution and its legacy.
Black Theater, City Life
Black Theater, City Life - 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 Black Theater, City Life write by Macelle Mahala. This book was released on 2022-08-15. Black Theater, City Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration. Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities.
Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39
Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39 - 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 Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39 write by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Historic Movie Theaters of Downtown Cleveland
Historic Movie Theaters of Downtown Cleveland - 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 Historic Movie Theaters of Downtown Cleveland write by Alan F. Dutka. This book was released on 2016-07-04. Historic Movie Theaters of Downtown Cleveland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first movie theaters in Cleveland consisted of converted storefronts with sawed-off telephone poles substituting for chairs and bedsheets acting as screens. In 1905, Clevelanders marveled at moving images at Rafferty's Monkey House while dodging real monkeys and raccoons that wandered freely through the bar. By the early 1920s, a collection of marvelous movie palaces like the Stillman Theater lined Euclid Avenue, but they survived for just two generations. Clevelanders united to save the State, Ohio and Allen Theaters, among others, as wrecking balls converged for demolition. Those that remain compose one of the nation's largest performing arts centers. Alan F. Dutka shares the remarkable histories of Cleveland's downtown movie theaters and their reemergence as community landmarks.
