10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VARIETY THEATRE»
Discover the use of
variety theatre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
variety theatre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Britain Had Talent: A History of
Variety Theatre
Encompassing singers, comedians, dancers, magicians, ventriloquists and diverse specialty acts, this vibrant book draws on a series of new interviews with variety veterans.
2
Twentieth Century
Theatre: A Sourcebook
Futurism exalts the Variety Theatre because: 1 The Variety Theatre born as we
are from electricity, is lucky in having no tradition, no masters, no dogma, and it is
fed by swift actuality. 2 The Variety Theatre is absolutely practical, because it ...
3
Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of
variety ...
Hitchcock's Varieties, Mozart Hall, Canterbury Theatre, Bob Butler's Theatre
Comique (also known as Butler's Varieties) and Tony Pastor's Variety Theatre in
Manhattan, New York. Green Street Varieties in Albany, New York. Tom Carr's ...
Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, 2004
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UE WC WG WOY Variety theatre, vaudeville * Theatrical productions consisting ...
J. Mills, Colin Ball, 2006
5
British Avant-Garde
Theatre
Variety theatre and popular entertainment Though influenced by a great variety of
figures and movements from Continental Europe and America, each play
mentioned above represents a direct challenge to Aristotelian linearity. However,
as ...
6
The Edwardian
Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage
In an epoch when commentators from so many political backgrounds drew
inspiration from the rural and the ancient, the variety theatre represented a site
where the denizens of the modern city could fight back. Music hall had always
focussed ...
Michael Richard Booth, Joel H. Kaplan, 1996
7
Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century
Theatre
While it is plainly a French word, it is all but universally accepted as an American
form of entertainment, a bill of acts performed in a VARIETY theatre and popular
from the 1890s until about 1930. The likeliest origin of the term would seem the ...
8
Theatre Histories: An Introduction
Other kinds of variety theatre in the U. S. included dime museums (which
continued the traditions of Barnum's American Museum into the 18905), medicine
shows (variety acts used to sell patent medicines), and concert saloons (which ...
9
German Expressionist
Theatre: The Actor and the Stage
Edschmid, Uber den Expressionismus in der Literatur und die neue Dichtung, 49.
Portner, Literaturrevolution 1910-1925, 2:6. F. T. Marinetti, “The Variety Theatre,”
Lacerba 1 October, 1913, reprinted in Futurist Manifistos, ed. Umbro Apollonio ...
10
The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism ...
We delight in frequenting the musichall or variety theatre, smoking concert, circus
, cabaret and night club, which offer today the only theatrical entertainment
worthy of the true Futurist spirit. Futurism exalts the variety theatre because, born
as it ...
Maggie B. Gale, John F. Deeney, 2012
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VARIETY THEATRE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
variety theatre is used in the context of the following news items.
Once-dazzling Variety Theatre set for rebirth as new Lorain Avenue …
The Variety Theatre opened Thanksgiving Day 1927 with Clara Bow starring in "Hula." Over the years, vaudeville acts, movies and a host of heavy metal bands ... «freshwatercleveland, Mar 15»
