Lecture Slides and Recordings on Google Drive
Readings and Videos on Google Drive
General
Crash Course, Introduction to Theatre, PBS
The Proscenium Arch, SCC Digital Video Productions
Thrust stage, Theatre Development Fund
Black Box Theatre, Theatre Development Fund
Timeline of Western Theater , Encyclopaedia Britannica
Weinstein, Stage and Audience, p. 22 (PDF)
Theater for a New Audience Opens New Quarters in Brooklyn, NY Times
St. Ann’s Warehouse Unveils a Permanent Home, NY Times
Balme, pp. 14-19 (PDF)
Lighting, Sound, Technology
How Architecture Helped Music Evolve, Ted Talks
Palmer, Light and Projection, pp. 48-55 (PDF)
Stage Lighting, Encyclopaedia Britannica
A Brief Outline of the History of Stage Lighting, Northern University
Huntington, Show Technology Comes of Age (PDF)
Huntington, Bridging Art and State-of-the-Art (PDF)
Architecture (General)
The Emotional Impact of Architecture, Ted Talks (stop at 10:35)
Ching, Design Drawing, pp. 135-137, 146-148, 162-163, 170-171 (PDF)
Ancient Greece and Rome
Theatre at Epidaurus, Discovery Channel
The Greek Theater: Evolution and Influence, University of Pennsylvania
Crash Course, Greek Theatre, PBS
Ancient Greek Theaters, Reed College (read #3 and #4)
Ancient Greek Theaters (Tufts)
Roman Amphitheater, Betapicts (start at 5:45)
Roman Colloseum, PBS (first 20 minutes only)
Wiles, Politics (Greek Theater and Performance) (PDF)
Wiles, Space (Greek Theater and Performance) (PDF)
Medieval European Theatre
Brockett, “Medieval Scenic Design” (pp. 30-33) and “The Audience of Faith” (pp. 56-58)
Early Modern England
Crash Course, Shakespearean Tragedy (stop at 4:30), PBS
Playwright, actor & shareholder, Folger Shakespeare Library (read main page and all links)
Wofford, Introduction to Hamlet, pp. 6-14 (PDF)
Leacroft, Bulls Bears and Actors (PDF)
The Recreation of the Globe, PBS
Historical References in Henry V, Utah Shakespeare
Playing in the Globe, PBS
Leacroft, Classical Rebirth and Perspective Scenery (PDF)
Henry V, RSC (mp4 video link in Google folder)
Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry V (Folger Library) (PDF)
Designing Shakespeare, Folger Library Podcast (webpage)
Japanese Noh
Crash Course, Noh Theatre, PBS
Behind the Scenes of the Noh Theater, JVT-en
Noh, UNESCO (read Stage Structure and Performance Techniques)
Noh Theatre, Introduction, Columbia University
the-Noh.com, Caliber Cast Ltd.
Noh Theatre, Ancient History Encyclopedia
Noh Theatre, PBS
Nô Costume, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art of Impermanence, Asia Society
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Throne of Blood, A. Kurosawa (from 14:00)
Kurozuka (Black Mound) play (PDF)
Kurozuka (video)
Dojoji (play) (PDF)
Dojoji (video)
Wayang Shadow Puppetry
Wayang Reading Pack (Course Drive)
Opera
Italian Renaissance Scenic Design
Giaimo, How a 17th-Century Navel Engineer Revolutionized Set Design
Encylopedia of Diderot, Theater Machines
Video: Festspielhaus Auditorium and Orchestra pit
19th-Century Popular Theatre in the US
Barnum’s American Museum, Bowery Boys History
McNamara, Brooks. “Popular Entertainment.” The Cambridge History of American Theatre, edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999, pp. 378–410. Locate in City Tech Library Database: Cambridge Histories Online. READ ONLY: Orientation, Minstrel Show, Vaudeville, and Burlesque. Locate in City Tech Library. Sign in with your Library ID (# on your student I.D. card. Use that number for both the username and password). On left side of screen, click on “Find eBooks”. Click on “Browse by eBook Collection by Name” then click on first letter of title (“C” for Cambridge Histories Online). Click on source. Once inside this database, search for your article (“Popular Entertainment” and/or author’s name).
History of Minstrelsy in Sheet Music, Brown University
Christy’s Minstrels and Stephen Foster, USF
Minstrel Structure and Iconography, USF
Amos and Andy, YouTube clip
Williams, The American Minstrelsy
Cohen, “Blackface Minstrelsy” (PDF)
History of Broadway
Taylor, Inventing Times Square, pp. 120-129 (PDF)
The Resurrection of 42nd Street, PBS
Spotlight on Broadway, Broadway History and Theatre Architecture
Harlem Renaissance
Thompson, Kathleen. “Harlem Renaissance.” Black Women in America, Second Edition. Ed. Darlene Clark HineNew York: Oxford UP, 2008. Oxford African American Studies Center. [Locate in City Tech Library Database: Oxford African American Studies Center. Go to “Find Articles”, click on “African American Studies” in Humanities section, then search for the database “Oxford African American Studies”. Once inside this database, search for your article. Make sure you read the one written by Thompson.] Read only section: Alongside the Great White Way
Against the Odds: Artists in the Harlem Renaissance, (stop at 19:15)
Harlem in the 1920s, PBS
Crash Course: Langston Hughes, PBS
Harlem: A cinema excursion in the great black metropolis of NYC, Pathe Cinema (Cotton Club with Duke Ellington and the “Walkabout” starts at 2:50)
135th Street Branch NYPL, LGBT Historic Sites Project
Harlem Renaissance Timeline, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Adobe Flash)
“Why the ‘Mule Bone’ Debate Goes On,” Gates Jr., NY Times
Rosalyn Flynn, Mulatto on Broadway
Girls! Girls! Girls!, Harlem Nightclub Dancing (origins of the Broadway “chorus line”)
Federal Theatre Project and Non-Profit Theatre
Federal Theater Project, Library of Congress (a massive archive)
The Show Must Go On: Theater in the Great Depression, Digital Public Library of America (Read Intro and Impact on African American theater)
Birth of The Federal Theatre Project, Library of Congress
Smith, The Play that Electrified Harlem, Library of Congress
The Birth of Off-Broadway, PBS
Study Pack for History of Non-Profit in the U.S.
Not-for-profit Theatre in America, Theatre Communications Group
Naturalism and the Little Theatre Movement
Sierz, Naturalism in Digital Theatre+ (History and Theory)
Doll’s House in Digital Theatre +
The Birth of Off-Broadway, Crash Course, PBS
20th cent. avant garde: symbolism, expressionism, Bauhaus
Weinstein, Stage and Audience, pp. 24-27 (PDF)
Appia, Reform Stage (PDF)
Reactions to Naturalism, Encyclopaedia Britannica
Influence of Appia and Craig, Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre, British Library
Crash Course: Brecht, PBS
Lotte Lenya sings Pirate Jenny, YouTube
Bertolt Brecht, Aims and Practice, Digital Theatre +
Chemers, Epic Theatre: History and Theory, Digital Theatre +
Stunted Trees and Broken Bridges, Digital Theatre +
Friedrich Kiesler’s Work in Theatre: The Inception of an Interdisciplinary Universe, Lesák
Bauhaus: German School of Design, Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kiesler: The Stage Explodes, pp. 3-12 (PDF)
Site Specific, Immersive Theatre
The Rubytown Oracle, SIGNA (2007) (view slideshow also)
Journey to the Twilight Zone, Baker’s Dozen
Site Specific Theatre, Theatre Development Fund
Performative Architecture
Liz Diller Plays with Architecture, Ted Talks
Tschumi_Interview (PDF)
Kolarevic, Towards the Performative, pp. 205-13 (PDF)
Matthews, Cedric Price and the Practices of Indeterminacy (PDF)
Weinstein, Flammand (PDF)