Bøger af Samuel Leiter

?An important resource for any scholar working on the production history of Shakespeare's plays. . . . Leiter and his five associate editors have compiled from a large number of review sources an overview of the staging history of each play and, with the assistance of almost 80 contributors, summary essays of 502 productions. Each essay is a one-page summary, often by a scholar compiling information from available reviews. Canada, England, and the US originated most of the productions, but records of productions in 22 other countries make this work more than a token representation of its title. Since the book consists of several levels of documentation, it can be used for a number of purposes: the record of a single production; the history of production of one play; or (with the help of the indexes) the development of a wide number of directors, performing artists, critics, and production companies. Because each entry has a complete list of sources, the book can be used as a helpful bibliography for locating reviews of productions....?-Choice

The most reliable source for data on productions of the New York stage, both Broadway and Off Broadway, is now complete from 1920 through 1950 with the publication of this third volume devoted to the 1940s. The volumes for 1920-1930 and 1930-1940 have been called invaluable, indispensable, essential, and other superlatives by reviewers, widely utilized by theatre scholars and researchers, consulted by companies producing revivals, and quoted by Playbill magazine in answering readers' queries. The continuing series represents a remarkable achievement for theatre historian Samuel Leiter, who singlehandedly has set out to provide such detailed coverage of New York theatre in the twentieth century.Like its predecessor volumes, The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1940-1950 provides a description of every legitimate production--play, musical, revue, or revival; English-language or foreign-language, domestic or import--staged in the New York professional theatre and reviewed by the press during the decade: in this case, nearly 1150 productions. Each listing begins with genre designation and subject categorization and proceeds to writing and production credits, theatre, opening dates, and run. The narrative text that follows, provides, along with plot summary, a lively account of background, anecdotal commentary from biographies and autobiographies, and critical responses to play and production with reference to and quotes from reviews. Ten appendixes offer listings of plays chronologically and in categories as well as play sources, awards, information on theatres, institutional theatres, foreign companies, reviewers, and various statistics. A selected bibliography and indexes of proper names and titles complete the work. The volume introduction is itself a history of New York theatre in the period of World War II and its aftermath. It deals with the hazardous business of theatre, both commercial and nonprofit, with the critical establishment of the day, with the increasing professionalism of Off Broadway, with ethnic theatre and visiting companies, and provides a fascinating overview of production highlights. Although the 1940s is not regarded as a landmark era in American theatre, it did see first productions of such classics as Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's breakthrough musical Oklahoma! This volume and the predecessor volumes of this encyclopedia series are indispensable reference tools.

Provides accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight directors, taken as exemplars of the spectrum of directorial art of the English-speaking stage as it has developed in the 20th century. Their styles and techniques range from commercial to classic to avant-garde.

The entries are arranged alphabetically, and the volume's appendices include a chronological table of kabuki history, a list of all major or formal play titles, a list of all variant or popular titles, genealogical charts, and a list of all major actors' stage nicknames (yago) currently in use.

A collection of profiles of six directors of the European stage, covering the spectrum of directoral art as it developed in the 20th century. Discussed are their career, conceptions of theatre art and directing and working methods, as well as repertory and major productions.