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The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1940-1950
The most reliable source for data on productions of the New York stage, both Broadway and Off Broadway, is now complete from 1920 through 1950 with the publication of this third volume devoted to the 1940s. The volumes for 1920-1930 and 1930-1940 have been called invaluable, indispensable, essential, and other superlatives by reviewers, widely utilized by theatre scholars and researchers, consulted by companies producing revivals, and quoted by Playbill magazine in answering readers' queries. The continuing series represents a remarkable achievement for theatre historian Samuel Leiter, who singlehandedly has set out to provide such detailed coverage of New York theatre in the twentieth centu...
A Kabuki Reader
A comprehensive survey of the history of kabuki - how it is written, produced, staged and performed, and its place in world theatre. The volume includes one kabuki play in translation as an illustration of kabuki techniques, and covers four areas - history, performance, theatres and plays.
The Man Who Saved Kabuki
As part of its program to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1999), who served as personal aide and interpreter to MacArthur during the Occupation, was appalled by the censorship policies and anticipated the extinction of a great theatrical art. He used his position in the Occupation administration and his knowledge of Japanese theatre in his tireless campaign to save kabuki. Largely through Bowers's efforts, censorship of kabuki had for the most part been e...
Frozen Moments
A collection of fifteen essays written over nearly four decades by one of America's best-known scholars of Japan's kabuki theatre. Illustrated with numerous photographs, prints, and line drawings, it includes an overview of kabuki and its impact on world theatre, interviews with and biographical accounts of famous actors, discussions of kabuki acting and staging techniques, an examination of kabuki violence, accounts of English-language kabuki productions, studies of theatrical architecture, a survey of amateur kabuki in rural communities, and a comparison of kabuki with the eighteenth-century English theatre. Each essay has been revised, some considerably, and two previously unpublished essays have been provided.
Theatre's Leiter Side, 2013-2014 Part I May-November
This two-volume book is the second in the Theatre's Leiter Side series anthologizing hundreds of reviews of New York theatre by Samuel L. Leiter originally posted on his Theatre's Leiter Side blog. After a long, prolific career during which he was recognized both as a world-renowned writer on Western theatre and traditional Japanese theatre, especially kabuki, Dr. Leiter began reviewing plays in his early 70s, following his having been named a Drama Desk Awards nominator, a position he held for two years. The present book collects his 300 reviews for the 2013-2014 New York season. This makes it the most extensive treatment of that season-which featured such hits as All the Way, Beautiful-The Carole King Show, Aladdin, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder-in any single source. Its coverage is so thorough it is being published in two chronologically organized volumes, the first for reviews from May to November 2013, the second for December 2013 to April 2014, when the awards season ended. Making the book even more significant are the hundreds of program covers it reprints, representing perhaps 90 percent of the Broadway and Off-Broadway shows described.
Masterpieces of Kabuki
Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki’s dramaturgy flourished prior to the onset of Western dramatic influence. Major playwrights, chronological periods of playwriting, and a variety of play types (history, domestic, and dance dramas) and performance styles are represented. All but one are in the current repertory and regularly staged. The volume includes introductions to each play and a new general introduction highlighting kabuki’s historical development and relating the plays to their performan...
Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 2
Kabuki Plays On Stage represents a monumental achievement in Japanese theatre studies, being the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in twenty-five years. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Volume 1 consists of thirteen plays that showcase early kabuki's scintillating and boisterous styles of performance and illustrates the contrasting dramatic techniques cultivated by actors in Edo (Tokyo) and Kamigata (Osaka and Kyoto). The twelve plays translated in Volume 2 cover a brief period, but one that saw important developments in kabuki architecture, acting, dance, and the man...
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical forms—nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki—supplemented with individual historical essays on each form. This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to: a chronology; introductory essay; appendixes; an extensive bibliography; over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms; brief biographies of the leading artists and writers; and plot summaries of significant plays. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Japanese theatre.
Theatre's Leiter Side, 2013-2014 Part II December-April
This two-volume book is the second in the Theatre's Leiter Side series anthologizing hundreds of reviews of New York theatre by Samuel L. Leiter originally posted on his Theatre's Leiter Side blog. After a long, prolific career during which he was recognized both as a world-renowned writer on Western theatre and traditional Japanese theatre, especially kabuki, Dr. Leiter began reviewing plays in his early 70s, following his having been named a Drama Desk Awards nominator, a position he held for two years. The present book collects his 300 reviews for the 2013-2014 New York season. This makes it the most extensive treatment of that season-which featured such hits as All the Way, Beautiful-The Carole King Show, Aladdin, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder-in any single source. Its coverage is so thorough it is being published in two chronologically organized volumes, the first for reviews from May to November 2013, the second for December 2013 to April 2014, when the awards season ended. Making the book even more significant are the hundreds of program covers it reprints, representing perhaps 90 percent of the Broadway and Off-Broadway shows described.
From Belasco to Brook
This multifaceted study, the companion volume to Leiter's From Stanislavsky to Barrault: Representative Directors of the European Stage (Greenwood Press, 1991), provides exhaustively detailed, yet compact accounts of the careers and accomplishments of eight outstanding directors of the English-speaking stage as well as separate, thorough bibliographies and chronologies of each. Samuel L. Leiter selected directors David Belasco, Harley Granville-Barker, George Abbott, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Margaret Webster, Elia Kazan, Joan Littlewood, and Peter Brook as exemplars of the broad spectrum of directorial art as it has developed in the twentieth century; his cogent introduction identifies salient as...
