A celebration of the work of contemporary architect David Rockwell, who works at the intersection of architecture and performance This unique insight into the projects and philosophy of renowned architect and Tony Award-winning set designer David Rockwell explores the remarkable range of his work, from restaurants and hotels to museums and Broadway stages. It is the first book to shine a spotlight on the relationship between architecture and performance and features contributions from leading voices and talents in fields as diverse as architecture, lighting design, and the culinary arts. David Rockwell's fascination with theater has long informed his built work. Drama explores the core principles that Rockwell uses to enhance the impact of his architecture, with contributions from experts across the creative world - from record producer Quincy Jones to chef José Andrés. It's both an exciting new insight into the work of an important contemporary architect and a compelling case for the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration.
From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters!
With a foreword by Ken Wilson, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in using the performing arts to help students become more confident and fluent speakers.
According to modernist snoots like writers Virginia Woolf and Dwight MacDonald, “middlebrows” were either paltry purveyors of highbrow culture or social-climbing audiences who mindlessly selected the art they were told was best.3 But ...
This is a story of an economically depressed but proud town finding hope in a gifted teacher and the magic of theater.
Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009 is a series of eight volumes about American theatre and drama, each focusing on a particular decade during the period between 1930 and 2010. It begins with the 1930s, ...
In Bruce Jay Friedman«s Scuba Duba (1967), a man whose wife has left him for a black lover finds himself adrift in a world of sexual freedom, psychiatric mumbo-jumbo and his own racist fantasies, and is unable to cope; in Friedman«s ...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day.
BERNARDA ( To the women who have MAGDALENA . Cursed be all women . just left ) . Go back to your houses and BERNARDA . In this house you'll do what criticize everything you've seen ! I hope I order . You can't run with the story to ...
The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books
Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.