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The making of the American theatre by Howard Taubman. With a foreword by Richard Rodgers is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The making of the American theatre about?

402 pages 24 cm Traces the rise of the American theatre from Colonial time to the forces that revolutionized the U.S. theatre in the twentieth century Changing and unchanging -- Decorum and morality -- Patriotism and an American flavor -- A problem child -- Actors and "sharp-shooters" -- "Hurrah for republican simplicity!" -- Stars and spectacles -- The pendulum swings -- Realism of a sort -- The players were the thing -- New century, boom times -- Real stagy life -- Operettas and follies -- Pressure for change -- Business as usual -- and different -- Eugene O'Neill -- New voices in the twenties -- Musical theatre in transition -- Twin menaces -- In the commercial mainstream -- Hope out of despair -- The loud, rude and vigorous thirties -- In the war years -- Brave plans -- vain hopes -- A new era -- the musical dominates -- Forgetting the war -- Skidding downhill -- Of violence and fluff -- Quality from abroad -- The musical triumphant -- The rise of off Broadway -- Disarray in th sixties -- Many valleys, few peaks -- Be thankful for imports -- Of acting, directing and designing -- New forces and new hope

Author

Howard Taubman. With a foreword by Richard Rodgers

Publisher

New York, Coward-McCann

Published

1967

Language

EN

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History