Great North American Stage Directors Volume 1

David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Margaret Webster

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2024
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-04513-2 (ISBN)

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This volume assesses the contributions of David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, and Margaret Webster, whose careers shaped the artistic and specialist identity of the Broadway director. Their work spans almost a century and captures the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape of 20th-century America. While their aesthetic styles differed greatly, they were united in their mastery of theatre craft and their impact on theatrical collaboration. The essays in this volume explore how these directors established and exploited Broadway as the epicentre of theatre in the United States, blended the role of producer and director, and managed the tensions between commercial success and artistic ambition.

The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work of twenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.

Cheryl Black is Curators Distinguished Professor Emerita of theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.

List of Figures
Series Introductions, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Forerunners and Groundbreakers in the Art of Theatrical Directing, Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, USA)

David Belasco
1. The Belasco Brand: Directing the Modern Theatrical Experience, Christin Essin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
2. The Cultural Imaginings of a Theatrical Impresario: David Belasco in Context, Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, USA)

Arthur Hopkins
3. Arthur Hopkins’s First Act: Before the Crash (1913–29), Arthur Feinsod (Indiana State University, USA)
4. Arthur Hopkins’s Second Act: After the Crash (1928–48), Ronald Wainscott (Indiana University, USA)

Margaret Webster
5. “She Must Be Fierce”: Margaret Webster’s Groundbreaking Broadway Career, Wendy Vierow (New York University, USA)
6. Not the Moor, but the Figure of the Moor: A Case Study of the Racial, Political, and Personal Stakes of Margaret Webster’s Othello (1943) and The Tempest (1945), Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Skidmore College, USA)

Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Great Stage Directors
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Professor James Peck
Zusatzinfo	13 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-350-04513-6 / 1350045136
ISBN-13	978-1-350-04513-2 / 9781350045132
Zustand	Neuware