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6 References. 7 Further reading ... Christopher Bramble, John Milton's Paradise Lost. Ind. 2023. ISBN-13 : 979-8375715025; ... An Outline History of American Drama ...
American Feminist Playwrights (1996) online; Fisher, James. ed. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010 (2 vol. 2011) Krasner, David. American Drama 1945 – 2000: An Introduction (2006) Krasner, David. A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 (2002) online
Expressionism on the American stage: Paul Green and Kurt Weill's Johnny Johnson (1936). Expressionism was a movement in drama and theatre that principally developed in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. It was then popularized in the United States, Spain, China, the U.K., and all around the world.
In the case of a musical being awarded the prize, the composer, lyricist and book writer are generally the recipients. An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while ...
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
The Paper Chase is a 1978 American drama television series based on the 1971 novel of the same title by John Jay Osborn Jr., and a 1973 film adaptation.It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at an unnamed law school, modeled on Harvard Law School.
Lynn Nottage, originally born and raised in Brooklyn, New York wrote the award-winning play, Sweat.Lynn Nottage began working on the play in 2011 by interviewing numerous residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, which at the time was, according to the United States Census Bureau, officially one of the poorest cities in America, [6] with a poverty rate of over 40%. [7]