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Makeshift Chicago stages : a century of theater and performance /
"This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city's segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance"...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Chicago theater as makeshift performance / Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
- Theater : artistry born of ashes / Stuart J. Hecht. Entertaining people : the 1893 Columbian Exposition Midway Plaisance / Rosemarie K. Bank ; From Marmalade to Gingerbread : the Columbian Exposition, Chicago's 57th Street Artist colony, and the theaters they spawned / Stuart J. Hecht ; All passes--art alone endures : staging the new drama at the fine arts building / Shannon Epplett
- From mainstream to institutionalized / Megan E. Geigner. Pillars of the community : reversing the flow between the Goodman and Community and Immigrant Theater / Megan E. Geigner ; Theatrical geographies of segregation : spatial displacement in Theodore Ward's Big white fog / Aaron Krall ; Lincoln avenue and the off-loop scene : urban renewal and the early years of the Chicago Storefront movement / Cat Gleason ; Object permanence : ImprovOlympic and the legitimacy of improv in Chicago / Travis Stern
- Centering the decentered, itinerant, civic, and home / Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud. Reclaiming space : an oral history of Teatro Vista / Laura A. Lodewyck ; Temple-swapping in the city : the spatial imaginary and performances of place-making in the work of Theaster Gates / LaRonika Marie Thomas ; Staging private homes and the transformations of public lives : the Chicago Home theater festival / Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud in conversation with Irina Zadov, Laley Lippard, Aymar Jean Christian, and Meida McNeal
- Epilogue : Chicago theater amid pandemics / Megan E. Geigner and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud.