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John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language and literature. He has worked in personnel administration, record retailing and bibliographic research for a government agency and is on the lecture panel of the National Federation of Music Societies. In...

Book Description1929. Contents: Irish Drama in Quest of a Home; The Theatre Royal Opera House; The Abbey Opens; The Abbey Players on Tour and at Home; The Playboy of the Western World; From the Parting of the Fays to the Death of Synge; John Millington Synge-A Review; Forward!; The Abbey...

An American vagabond, Mike Strom traveled the USA in search of the American Dream. This collection of 18 short stories spans his 40 years as a Bohemian artist. Featuring original stunning artwork by Brydon Stewart.

Book DescriptionHere is a major work by a contemporary American artist at the top of his game. Woodie King, Jr."s new book is an impassioned stand against racism, sexism and classism in theatre and culture. King has been an active producer and director in the trenches for social justice...

Book Description    The Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s relief project of the Roosevelt administration, brought more theater to more people in every corner of America that at any time in U.S. history. The Project had units in every region of the country, including...

Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University.

A  While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing operaa??s restlessness and volatility to...

A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism"s encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural...

A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror...

From 19th century playhouses to the opulence of the 1920s movie palace and the multiplexes of today, The Brooklyn Theatre Index acts as a resource guide to the borough"s performance spaces. Volume II begins with Royal Palace Hall on Manhattan Avenue and ends with Military Hall on York Street.