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America's third largest city until 1890, Brooklyn, New York, had a striking theatrical culture before it became a borough of Greater New York in 1898. As the city gained size and influence, more and more theatres arose, with at least 15 venues ultimately vying for favor. But, for all its productivity, too many theatregoers preferred the discomforts of a ferry and horsecar trip to New York's playhouses instead of supporting the local product. N...

This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan's kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners-resident or transient-during the Meiji period (1868-1912), well before the first substantial non-Japanese book on the subject was...

Samuel L. Leiter is distinguished professor of theatre at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and also teaches at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

A comprehensive survey of the history of kabuki - how it is written, produced, staged and performed, and its place in world theatre. The volume includes one kabuki play in translation as an illustration of kabuki techniques, and covers four areas - history, performance, theatres and plays.

?An important resource for any scholar working on the production history of Shakespeare's plays. . . . Leiter and his five associate editors have compiled from a large number of review sources an overview of the staging history of each play and, with the assistance of almost 80 contributors, summary essays of 502 productions. Each essay is a one-page summary, often by a scholar compiling information from available reviews. Canada, England, and...

This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to:*a chronology, *introductory essay, *appendixes, *an extensive bibliography, *over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms, *brief biographies of the leading artists and writers, *and plot summaries of significant plays. .

The most reliable source for data on productions of the New York stage, both Broadway and Off Broadway, is now complete from 1920 through 1950 with the publication of this third volume devoted to the 1940s. The volumes for 1920-1930 and 1930-1940 have been called invaluable, indispensable, essential, and other superlatives by reviewers, widely utilized by theatre scholars and researchers, consulted by companies producing revivals, and quoted b...

This volume presents a broad picture of the theatrical controversies, developments, and talents of the 1970s. Among the many topics discussed are the avant-garde's stretching of the traditional boundaries, the redefinition of the musical theatre, the expansion of Off Off-Broadway productions, institutionalized and subsidized productions, the economic turnaround of the commercial theatre, and the rise of many talented young actors and director....

This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage (Greenwood Press, 1991), provides exhaustively detailed, yet compact accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight outstanding directors of the English-speaking stage as well as separate, thorough bibliographies and chronologies of each. Samuel L. Leiter selected directors David Belasco, Harley Granvill...

Established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars provide a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki, how it is written, produced, staged, and performed, its place in world theater, and a translation of one play.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Zeami and the No Theatre in the World symposium.

Samuel L. Leiter's Kabuki at the Crossroads is a thorough account of Japan's most famous traditional theatre as it struggled to survive in the maelstrom of post-Occupation Japan's rapidly changing entertainment world.

This comprehensive reference work covers all four forms of traditional Japanese theatre: no, kyogen, bunraku, and kabuki. International tours by each have become commonplace, allowing audiences everywhere to broaden their understanding of theatre's possibilities, and inspiring artists to infuse their works with ideas sparked by Japanese theatre's conventions. Because of the great interest generated by increasing familiarity with these theatre ...

This is the first book to describe the way in which the traditional and modern forms of Japanese theater responded to Japan's defeat in World War II. It includes sixteen essays by thirteen specialists demonstrating the triumphs and tribulations of Japanese theater during the Allied Occupation, 1945 1952.