Russian culture and theatrical performance in America, 1891-1933
By: Valleri J. Hohman
Series: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230113688
Subjects: Theater; Russians; Russian Americans; Intellectual life; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Russian influences; Civilization; History
Description: "Between the 1890s and the 1930s, advancements in communication and travel encouraged widespread international cultural exchange, and Americans increasingly came into contact with Russian culture and theatrical performance. A number of factors, including emigration from Russia, world war, revolutionary activities in both Russia and the United States, and developments in modernism in the American theatre influenced the way those performances were received by American artists and audiences. Examining the work of impresarios, financiers, and the press as well as the artists themselves, Hohman demonstrates how a variety of Russian theatrical styles were introduced and incorporated into American theatre and dance"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: RUSSIANS IN AMERICA: THE EARLY YEARS . "Russian" in America; title: Jacob Gordin in America; title: The First Russian Touring Artists in America; title: PART II: THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE. Otto H. Kahn: Establishing Russian Performance in America; title: Morris Gest: Bringing Russian Art to the Masses; title: PART III: REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE FROM RUSSIA TO AMERICA. Experimentation in the Soviet Theatre; title: The Habima in America; title: Experiments in Style in the 1920s Yiddish Theatres; title: The Artef and Workers' Theatre in the US.