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From Aesthetics A-Z
Theater is the oldest hybrid art form . It is traditionally a combination of prose or poetry, music , dance , visual and decorative arts, and with current technological advancements, also film and new media art, all incorporated into live performance. Thus the philosophical study of theater tends to overlap with many of the issues that are indigenous to the other arts. A typical theater performance – for example, a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet – is in a sense enacted literature , and it is also thoroughly mimetic . Ontologically , such a typical case can be easily handled by the type/token distinction: each performance of Hamlet is a token of the type Hamlet , that is, Shakespeare's play, which is the artwork. The performance is an interpretation of the play; this means that the performance token will have properties that exceed its type. Furthermore, a live theater performance is attended by an audience. Insofar as the performance is mimetic, it will normally involve also the…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
The American theater normally denotes a commercial enterprise in which performers mount a stage to entertain an audience. But this definition fails to convey the tremendous variety of entertainments the American stage has hosted nor does it suggest the diverse circumstances under which theater has…
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From St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture
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Theater might seem like an unlikely environment for hip hop, especially if hip hop is viewed as a monolith that exists only within music. However, given the deep influence that African-derived religious traditions have had on hip hop music's development, a stage— especially a Broadway stage—provides…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
building, structure, or space in which dramatic performances take place. In its broadest sense theater can be defined as including everything connected with dramatic art—the play itself, the stage with its scenery and lighting, makeup, costumes, acting, and actors. Theater in ancient Greece…
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From Keywords for Latina/o Studies
Theater and theory are inextricably tied through a common etymology: both are derived from the Greek word theastai (θεάομαι), meaning to gaze at or contemplate. In addition to theory, theater is dramatic literature, that is, both published or unpublished texts and the staging or productions—the…
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From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
In early British North America, theater functioned more as a metaphor and concept than an actual site of enacted drama. The New England colonies and Virginia were explicitly told to shun actors and theaters, and Massachusetts famously prevented any formal theater from being built until nearly the…
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From The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy African American History Answer Book Full text Article ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
The Apollo Theater in Harlem became one of the...
The African Grove Theater was the first known black theatrical company in the United States. It grew out of African Americans’ lack of opportunity to participate in main-stream theater productions. After a number of gatherings were held in Brown’s backyard around 1816, James Henry Brown and James…
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From Aesthetics A-Z
Theater is the oldest hybrid art form . It is traditionally a combination of prose or poetry, music , dance , visual and decorative arts, and with current technological advancements, also film and new media art, all incorporated into live performance. Thus the philosophical study of theater tends to…
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances. A room with tiers of seats used for lectures or demonstrations: an operating theater at a medical school. a. Dramatic literature or its performance; drama: the theater of Shakespeare and…
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From Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed
see also Acting and Actors , Comedy and Comedians , Dancing and Dancers , Drama and Melodrama , Motion Pictures , Shows , Stars , Tragedies “We of the theater live apart from the outside world. We never open our mouths to speak, or our lips to kiss but to further our careers.” Already a star, Andrea…
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Full text Article Living Theater

From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 4
Founded in 1947 by struggling New York artist Julian Beck (1925–1985) and his actress wife, Judith Malina, the Living Theater is a radical theater collective that regards the dramatic stage as a medium for social change. Rejecting the ethos of commercial Broadway, the Living Theater stages edgy, …
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