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| Wrote Hearts of Oak in 1879. 1880 manager of the Madison Square Theatre and later Lyceum. |
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| Founded by Ellen Stewart in 1961 and has been instrumental in introducing new playwrights and directors. Torch Song Trilogy |
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| A Group of businesspeople who controlled theatre in the United States, was toppled in 1915 by Lee Shubert |
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| Son of Ellen Terry. Actor, director, manager, designer, author and theorist. Played Hamlet in the Olympic Theatre in 1897. wrote the book On the Art of the Theatre |
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| Influential French theatre director, producer, actor and dramatist of the 20th century. Greatly influeneced the development of theatre through the training of the actor. |
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| : organized in 1970, originally under the artistic direction of Lee Breuer amd is well known for staging the plays of Samuel Beckett. Highly visual style and has developed many theatre pieces using imagery and techniques from popular culture, including cartoons. |
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| During the depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which organized government-subsidized agencies to put the unemployed back to work. Headed by Hallie Flanagan Davis and was around four 4 years. |
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| 1916- Bound East for Cardiff.. 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Beyond the Horizon. Long Day's Journey into Night. Experimented with expressionism in The Hairy Ape. Only American Playwright to win Nobel Prize in literature. Considered to be the father of modern American Theatre due to brutally realistic nature of most of his plays |
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| was political and was meant to instigate social change |
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| first used in France just after the turn of the 20th century to describe a style of painting. Developed in Germany around 1905 as a movement in art and literature in which the representation of reality is distorted to communicate inner feelings. |
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| In charge of the Federal Theatre Project |
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| originated in Switzerland in 1916 with a series of manifestos written by Tristan Tzara, short-lived movement that never really caught on, though (like futurism) it influenced other, later avant-garde movements. A reaction to the insanity of WWI and its proponents argued that it mirrored the madness of the world. |
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| A Raisin in the Sun, Fences |
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| the most renowned of the absurdist playwrights. His dramas deal with the dullness of routine, the futility of human action and the inability of humans to communicate; and the plots, language, and characters themselves seem absurd. Waiting for Godot epitomizes the absurdist form |
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| a noncommercial company which prodcued plays in the Broadway district. It was dedicated to introducing socially relevant drama. Politically, the company leaned toward the left wing, and its memebers hoped to motivate political and social action through theatre. |
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| Developed a series of exercises and techniques for the actor, which had the following broad aims: make outward behavior natural and convincing, develop a strong sense of ensemble playing with other performers in a scene, etc. |
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| directed all black version of Macbeth set in haiti |
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| The Magnificent Cuckold 1922, antirealistic experiemnts. Multimedia in stage productions, expose the devices of theatre, biomechanics, contructivist sets |
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| : An artistic and social movement that orignated in Italy in the early 20th century, leading creator is Filippo Marnietti |
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| a philosophy most clearly articulated by two Frenchmen: Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Believe there is little meaning in existence, that God does not exist, and that humanity is therefore alone in an irrational universe. |
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| emereged out of the dada movement. The major exponent of surrealism was the French writer Andre Breton, but the tern itself had been used with the play TheBreats of Tiresias and the ballet Parade. Argued that the subconscious was the highest plane of reality and attempted to re-create its workings dramatically. |
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| often used documentary materials, and he believed that a director could make whatever changes seemed necessary in a text. Also explored ways of changing the tradtitional actor-audience relationship |
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| Located in Dublin, Ireland founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory and was taken over by the Irish National Dramatic Society and became the Irish National Theatre in 1903 |
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| worked under Otto Brahm for a while. The Miracle first directed by Reinhardt in 1911 |
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| Founding members George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell. First Theatre to present Eugene O'Neil's plays. Produced the designs of Robert Edmond Jones "new stagecraft" |
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| An Ideal Husband 1992, The Importance of Being Ernest comedies of manners |
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| under the artistic direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, it gained international renown in the 1980s, is noted for "deconstructing" well-known texts. Presented highly theatrical, highly physical versions of O'Neill's The Hairy Ape |
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| The Neighborhood Playhouse |
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| A Stanislavski-oriented program under the direction of Sanford Meisner, who had been an actor w. the Group Theatre in the 1930s |
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| opened in 1949 with Mother Courage and was Brecht's work |
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| Became chairman of the Freie Buhne in 1889 and became the director for the deutsches theatre in 1894. Basically made Henrik Ibsen famous. |
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| Born Benjamin Franklin Wedekind he launched the success of satirical writing in Germany. Spring Awakening 1891 and the "Lulu" Plays (The Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box) |
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| designed the scene for Macbeth in 1921 |
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| Swiss designer and theorist. Proposed his view of banishing painted backdrops and advocated three-dimensional settings. Came up with antirealistic staging. multidirectional colored lighting to move in harmony with the performance |
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| The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, Cherry Orchard |
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| Mother Courage and Her Children |
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| the play with which Brecht opened the Berliner Ensemble, Mother Courage and Her Children, is probably his most famous work, and it reflects many of his ideas about epic theatre. |
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