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15. Concerning Theory for Performance Studies

Author

Schechner, Richard, Rodgers, Talia, L'Enfant, Claire, Butler, Judith, Carlson, Marvin, Davis, Tracy C., Savran, David, Jackson, Shannon, Jakovljevic, Branislav, Dolan, Jill, Zarrilli, Phillip, Worthen, W.B., Roach, Joseph, and Phelan, Peggy

Published
2009

18. What Do We Do with the Musical Theatre Canon?

Author

Wolf, Stacy, primary, Asare, Masi, additional, Berman, Rob, additional, Eng, Randall, additional, Glover, Eric M., additional, Savran, David, additional, Stitt, Georgia, additional, Webster, Brandon, additional, and Whitfield, Sarah, additional

Published
2021
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26. TDR Comment: Concerning "Theory for Performance Studies"

Author

Schechner, Richard, Beal, Timothy K., Deal, William E., Rodgers, Talia, L'Enfant, Claire, Butler, Judith, Carlson, Marvin, Davis, Tracy C., Savran, David, Jackson, Shannon, Jakovljevic, Branislav, Dolan, Jill, Zarrilli, Phillip, Worthen, W. B., Roach, Joseph, and Phelan, Peggy

Published
2009

36. The canonization of Eugene O'Neill

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Arts, visual and performing, Literature/writing
Abstract

The life and works of renowned playwright Eugene O'Neill who is considered to be the first canonical U.S. playwright and a crusader whose plays helped in legitimizing literary drama is discussed. It is felt that O'Neill's canonization came quickly due to his work that was different from popular theatrical traditions like vaudeville and musical comedy.

Published
2007

38. Rethinking our field: a forum

Author

Savran, David, Munk, Erica, Roach, Joseph, Reinelt, Janelle, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, Carlson, Marvin, Diamond, Elin, and Dolan, Jill

Subjects
Theater and society -- Analysis, Theater -- Study and teaching, Drama -- Study and teaching, Dramatic criticism -- Analysis, Arts and entertainment industries, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

A theatrical researcher discusses the marginalization of theatrical scholars and their isolation from the real world of theater production. Responses from other scholars are presented.

Published
2001

39. The haunted houses of modernity

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Our Town (Play) -- Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists -- Criticism and interpretation, Ghost stories -- Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Ghosts -- Portrayals, Arts, visual and performing, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation, Portrayals
Abstract

Despite having survived a fin-de-siecle anxiety attack, the industrialized world has come more and more to resemble a spook-house. With the emergence of new media and new industrial and social [...]

Published
2000

40. Kushner's children of the revolution: an operatic family drama in the Manner of Miller is the centerpiece of a Guthrie tribute

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Guthrie Theater (Theater group) -- Works -- Evaluation, Tiny Kushner (Play) -- Evaluation, Theater companies -- Works, Arts, visual and performing, Evaluation, Works
Abstract

NEAR THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE STRIKING new Guthrie Theater stand huge steel panels embossed with photographs of seven titans of modern drama: Chekhov, Shaw, O'Neill, Williams, Miller, Hansberry and [...]

Published
2009

42. Class and Culture

Author

Savran, David, Knapp, Raymond, book editor, Morris, Mitchell, book editor, and Wolf, Stacy, book editor

Published
2011
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44. Adam Guettel: will his lushly romantic new musical win him mainstream audiences?

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
The Light in the Piazza (Play) -- Authorship -- Analysis, Musical theater -- Personalities -- Analysis, Composers -- Works -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Travel, Arts, visual and performing, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Analysis, Works, Personalities, Travel, Authorship
Abstract

AN INNOCENT YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN AND HER WEALTHY, protective mother spend a glorious summer in Florence, seduced by Renaissance art, the Tuscan sun and the ragazzi. A handsome stranger sweeps [...]

Published
2004

45. The Funniest German you've probably never heard of: the extravagant work of Herbert Fritsch plunders classic come music-theatre and his country's surreal history

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Die (s)panische Fliege (Play) -- Evaluation, Theatrical producers and directors -- Interviews, Arts, visual and performing
Abstract

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT THAT GERMANS are not funny. Brooding, melancholy, tragic, yes; but comic? Which makes it all the more remarkable that the greatest living director of farce is [...]

Published
2014

47. The world according to Wellman: a political and linguistic outlaw revels in the theatre of excess

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Dramatists -- 20th century AD -- Interviews, Drama -- 20th century AD -- Analysis, Creativity (Linguistics) -- Analysis -- 20th century AD, Realism in literature -- Analysis -- 20th century AD, Arts, visual and performing, Analysis
Abstract

Mac Wellman has a wicked way with words. In 1990, while enjoying a grant from an embattled and queasy National Endowment for the Arts, be wrote Sincerity Forever - a [...]

Published
1999

48. Driving Ms. Vogel

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Women dramatists -- Interviews
Published
1998

49. Tony Kushner considers the longstanding problems of virtue and happiness

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Homosexuality -- Analysis, Dramatists -- Interviews, Theater -- Analysis, Homosexuality and theater -- Analysis, Arts, visual and performing, Analysis
Abstract

When Bill Kushner diligently guided his 14-year-old son Tony through Wagner's 20-hour Ring cycle, he little suspected his prodigious offspring would end up some two decades later writing the theatrical [...]

Published
1994

50. Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights

Author

Savran, David

Subjects
Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights (Play) -- Theater reviews, Theater -- Theater reviews, Arts, visual and performing
Published
1993

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