With the appearance of small theaters, a new stage began in U.S. theatrical life. On the stages of amateur, semi-professional and professional “small theaters” they began staging the plays of G. Ibsen and I. Shaw, A.P. Chekhov and L.N. Tolstoy, the work on development of national drama and stage art in general was…
Category: History
The emergence of a peculiar genre in American theatrical art – the musical.
The first years of the 20th century were the time when a peculiar genre, the musical, appeared in American theatrical art. Prior to that, the most common form of musical performance had been musical revues (Siegfeld Follies by Florenz Siegfeld), which were entertaining stage acts far removed from the problems of life. In…
Theater arts in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
In the 1920s and 1930s, new names appeared in the theatrical arts of the United States. Among them are E. Rice, M. Anderson, L. Stallings, DG Lawson, P. Green, D. Kelly, S. Howard, S. Berman, K. Odets, etc. The works of these playwrights were staged not only in small theaters, but also on…
New Generation American Playwright Eugene O’Neill
The importance of O’Neill’s work was appreciated by his contemporaries, and it is no accident American theater historians link the emergence of modern theater in the United States with 1920 – the time of the first production of O’Neill’s multi-act play “Over the Horizon. The famous writer Sinclair Lewis commented on the importance…
American theater
The peculiarity of the historical development of the United States at the stage of the post-war restructuring of the world determined the further development of American national culture and theater in particular. The first decades of the XX century were the time of formation of American drama, far behind in its development of…
The First Experience of Show Business in the United States
Throughout the twentieth century, theater people in America checked their experience with Broadway. Off-Broadway (off, “without”) stages appeared, and then off-Broadway stages. The most daring experimentalists, who challenged the very nature of theater and, of course, Broadway, were willing to repeat this “off” more than twice. What are Broadway theaters? First of all,…
