Modern Theatre
Ibsen's play about a woman who chooses to leave her husband after discovering he is more concerned about appearances than her.
A Doll's House
Founding playwright of the realist era
Henrik Ibsen
Theatrical isim that aspired to be a laboratory in which an audience makes the final judgment of a social ill or the nature of relationships.
Realism
Musical (book by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II), adapted from a gritty novel by Edna Ferber, uses music and dancing to carry its complex plot and touches significantly on race relations in America, as with the poignant song "Ol' Man River"?
Show Boat
This producing organization has worldwide recognition for its wildly popular musical productions such as The Lion King, Tarzan, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast.
Disney
The theatre where Chekhov collaborated with Konstantin Stanislavsky.
Moscow Art Theatre
One of the high points of realism is best exemplified by this author
Anton Chekhov
__________works combine various styles without attempting to connect them.
Postmodernisim
Veteran dancer who returned to the stage in 1960 to stage and choreograph Bye Bye Birdie.
Gower Champion
Directed by avant-garde director-designer Julie Taymor, has become the highest-grossing Broadway play of all time.
The Lion King
The subject matter of naturalistic plays is called
Slice of Life
Director that brought realistic acting to realist plots.
Stanislavsky
Early works of _______________ featured angular scenery, piercing sounds, glaring lights, and bold symbols dramaturgically.
Expressionisim
Marc Blitztein's 1938 musical that was canceled an hour before its New York opening by government officials who protested the play's "left-wing propaganda."
The Cradle Will Rock
Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on a book of poems by T. S. Elliott.
Cats
Play was written by an Irish poet and playwright, and follows two elderly men in bowler hats passing time at the base of a tree?
Waiting for Godot
This constructivist broke with Stanislavsky’s style of realist performance to create a nonrealist "biomechanical" style of acting and direction.
Vsevolod Meyerhold.
This Isim had a lasting effect on Modern Western Theatre
Realism
City that remains the international capital of the world's musical theatre
New York
Play by Michael R. Jackson, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is a dizzying, brilliant metadrama that focuses on Usher, a character who is, perhaps not coincidentally, an actual usher on Broadway for The Lion King?
A Strange Loop
Type of character that stands for philosophical ideas or warring internal forces in the human soul rather than representing real human beings.
Symbolic Characters
This theatre attempted to distance the audience by repudiating realistic conventions through a didactic performance style, an acting style that required the actor to "discover" rather than "integrate with" his character, and a stage that called attention to its own artificiality.
Brecht’s theatre of alienation
Isim movement, whose development was independent of realism, based its aesthetics on nature, particularly on humanity’s place in the (Darwinian) environment and tried to create life itself on stage?
Naturalisim
America's first true musical
The Black Crook
A contemporary American musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that attempts to celebrate democracy not only in its politics but in its array of musical influences and performers.
Hamilton