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Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
Deanna M. Toten Beard
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Description for Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a "renaissance" in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of "little theatres"—groups around the country with artistic aspirations and local commitment that would become the models for the American regional theatre movement later in the century. In the first five years of Theatre Arts Magazine are the keys to understanding the progressive movement for a modern American theatre: the tension between commercial ... Read more
In the early decades of the 20th century, Sheldon Cheney was the American theatre's zealous missionary for modernism. In 1916, Cheney founded Theatre Arts Magazine in Detroit with the intent to foster and support a "renaissance" in America. Through this publication, Cheney gave voice to scores of "little theatres"—groups around the country with artistic aspirations and local commitment that would become the models for the American regional theatre movement later in the century. In the first five years of Theatre Arts Magazine are the keys to understanding the progressive movement for a modern American theatre: the tension between commercial ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810872660
SKU
V9780810872660
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About Deanna M. Toten Beard
DeAnna M. Toten Beard is associate professor and head of graduate studies in the Department of Theatre Arts at Baylor University.
Reviews for Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine
A fine addition to the Scarecrow list.... The volume is valuable for the unique way Toten Beard (Baylor Univ.) gives voice to first-person, pro-modernist perspectives on needed reforms of live theater and performance during this period in history.... Recommended.
CHOICE, August 2010
The book is useful for understanding the changing dynamics of theater arts in the early twentieth ... Read more
CHOICE, August 2010
The book is useful for understanding the changing dynamics of theater arts in the early twentieth ... Read more