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TDR: The Drama Review is an academic journal focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts. [1][2] The journal covers dance, theatre, music, performance art, visual art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals, and performance in politics and everyday life. TDR: The Drama Review was founded in 1955 ...
Proof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn. Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for ...
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the ...
He edited The Drama Review, formerly the Tulane Drama Review, from 1962 to 1969; and again from 1986 to the present. [2] Schechner went on to become one of the founders of the Performance Studies department of the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
López’s performance benefits from not having lines to deliver. The fresh-faced thespian holds the picture together as he at least convincingly embodies the extreme distress that anyone in the ...
Postdramatic theatre. The notion of postdramatic theatre was established by German theatre researcher Hans-Thies Lehmann in his book Postdramatic Theatre, [1] summarising a number of tendencies and stylistic traits occurring in avant-garde theatre since the end of the 1960s. The theatre which Lehmann calls postdramatic is not primarily focused ...
Back in the ’80s, Robert Matthews and the Order were big news (Hollywood, in 1988, even made a hamhanded drama about him, called “Betrayed,” starring Tom Berenger and Debra Winger and ...
Theatre criticism is a genre of arts criticism, and the act of writing or speaking about the performing arts such as a play or opera. Theatre criticism is distinct from drama criticism, as the latter is a division of literary criticism whereas the former is a critique of the theatrical performance. Dramas or plays as long as they stay in the ...