Journal ArticleTheatre Journal · September 2024
Abstract: Two plays focusing on the postincarceration experiences of sex offenders opened in 2018: Life Jacket Theatre Company's America Is Hard to See and Bruce Norris's Downstate . Both plays ask spectators to recognize the humanit ...
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Chapter · August 27, 2024
Musicals communicate in multiple semiotic languages at once—music and lyrics; speech; blocking and dance; and set, costume, lighting, and sound design. Characters exist on the page and on the stage, portrayed by actors whose bodies and voices carry their o ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Musical Theatre · December 1, 2023
This article examines how Stephen Sondheim persistently and profoundly probed the second act of life, especially the years of middle age. I didn’t know it when I began discovering Sondheim’s works as an adolescent, but his lyrical insights prepared me for ...
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Book · June 29, 2023
Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed yet misrecognized: that queerness and musical theatre's relationship extends much deeper than camp fabulosity and reveals, at times, ... ...
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Book · 2023
"The Broadway Body I lied about my height on my résumé the entire time I was a dancer, though in truth I don't think the extra inch ever actually made a difference. ...
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Chapter · August 26, 2022
Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and traditionalism. ...
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Chapter · 2022
The performers, directors, playwrights, designers, and producers profiled in this collection have contributed to the representation of LGBTQ lives and culture in a variety of theatrical venues, both within the queer community and across the ... ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Musical Theatre · January 1, 2019
This special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre examines the role of dance in musical theatre from a variety of perspectives. Given the scholarly turn from textual analysis to performance analysis, even studying musicals without exten-sive dance per se ca ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Musical Theatre · September 1, 2012
Through both her dances and writings Agnes de Mille explored what it means to be American. I argue that, in addition to the explicitly America-themed material de Mille chose, her choreography performs national identity through its use of gesture – ...
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