American vaudeville transformed comedy, celebrity, censorship, touring, film, and radio into the foundations of modern mass entertainment....
Theatre
From Greek choruses to Broadway scores, music has carried theater’s emotion, rhythm, spectacle, and storytelling power across...
Medieval farces and soties used fools, tricksters, courts, households, and public laughter to expose the fragile performance...
From Old Comedy to viral protest, street theater has used satire, spectacle, and interruption to make power...
Challenging authority with laughter. By Lorraine BoissoneaultWriter, Producer, and Journalist Anti-Roman sentiment may have run rampant through...
“Woe to the land that’s govern’d by a child.” By Dr. David Sterling BrownAssociate Professor of EnglishTrinity...
It wasn’t until King Charles’s declaration in 1662 that women’s parts could be played by women. Introduction...
The fall of the Roman republic has prompted many historical reflections across the ages. Abstract This article...
Exploring what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play....
Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. By James Williford A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses,...
The theater covered such diverse themes as history, romance, revenge, murder, comedy, and tragedy. Introduction Elizabethan theatre,...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...
This kind of theater allowed for more lighting and special effects that could enhance the performances. By...
Exploring visual elements that deepens our comprehension of another world across the footlights and under the proscenium....
In the nineteenth century, enterprising toy makers developed a novel way to bring theater into the home....
The sound quality in ancient times was likely much better than it is today. By Brigit Katz It...
Reconstruction of the Theatre of Dionysus / Utah State University, Creative Commons By Dr. Mark Damen Professor...