Kiss Me, Kate, 2013 Taylor University
Kiss Me, Kate
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2013 performance of Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter and Samuel and Bella Spewack.
Kiss Me, Kate follows the story of divorcees Fred and Lilli and their onstage/offstage drama as they rehearse and perform a musical version of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
Speed-The-Plow, 2013 Otterbein University
Speed-The-Plow, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2013-2014 Season
Speed-the-Plow is another of Mamet's business plays, this one exploring the relationship between business and art. Bobby and Charlie are film producers who are considering greenlighting the script for a prison buddy movie that they believe will be a huge blockbuster. Bobby has been reading an apocalyptically spiritual novel that has deep meaning, but Charlie points out that this book would never make a great movie. After the temp, Karen, leaves the office, Charlie bets Bobby that he cannot get her into bed. When she returns, Bobby asks her to read the novel and give him her thoughts later. That …
The Auld Sod: Staging The Diaspora At The 1897 Irish Fair In New York City, 2013 Manhattan College
The Auld Sod: Staging The Diaspora At The 1897 Irish Fair In New York City, Deirdre O’Leary
e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies
The 1897 Irish Fair in New York City is significant for its map exhibit of a topographical map of Ireland, with soil from each county represented. For ten cents, participants could walk across the map and stand again on the soil of Ireland. This article examines the map exhibit as demonstrating diasporic nationalism of the late nineteenth century Irish emigrant, and also reads the exhibit as a contrapuntal political discourse on Irish nationalism, Anglo/American relations, and the position of the Irish immigrant in New York.
Les Misérables, 2013 Otterbein University
Les Misérables, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2013-2014 Season
One of the world’s most iconic and longest-running musicals, Les Misérablestells the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict who spends a lifetime seeking redemption. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France and the aftermath of the French Revolution, this timeless story of intertwined destinies reveals the power of compassion and the quiet evil of indifference to human suffering. As Valjean’s quest for a new life carries him into Paris and to the barricades of the Student Revolution, he is hunted by Inspector Javert and the ghosts of his past. Amidst a battle for the soul of Paris, he …
Blue Jasmine, 2013 Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School
Blue Jasmine, Daniel Ross Goodman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Blue Jasmine (2013), directed by Woody Allen.
Night Sky Program [2013], 2013 University of Southern Maine
Night Sky Program [2013], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre
Programs 2013-2014 Season
A comedic drama by Susan Yankowitz
Directed by Assunta Kent
This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).
Though The Earth Give Way, 2013 Taylor University
Though The Earth Give Way
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2013 performance of Though the Earth Give Way by William Gebby, commissioned and presented by the Taylor Theatre Touring Company.
Though the Earth Give Way is a reimagined telling of the story of King Hezikiah and his resistance of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C.. The story is found in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 18-20 and Psalm 46.
The Fight Master, Fall 2013, Vol. 35 Issue 2, 2013 Marshall University
The Fight Master, Fall 2013, Vol. 35 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors
Fight Master Magazine
No abstract provided.
The Stage Through Slanted Eyes: An Examination Of The Current State Of Asian Americans In Theatre, 2013 University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
The Stage Through Slanted Eyes: An Examination Of The Current State Of Asian Americans In Theatre, Sara M. Laflamme
Honors Theses and Capstones
Deep-set racial prejudices and stereotypes in American society greatly impact how Asian Americans are perceived onstage and in everyday life. The Stage Through Slanted Eyes: An Examination of the Current State of Asian Americans in Theatre delves into the history of these prejudices and looks at how a performer's race can impact his or her theatrical career.
Freud's Last Session, 2013 Taylor University
Freud's Last Session
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2013 performance of Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain.
Freud’s Last Session focuses on psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud who has invited Oxford professor C. S. Lewis to his London home. The two men enter debate about the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life – only two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own.
The play was suggested by the best selling book The Question of God by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr..
Horror-Comedy: The Chaotic Spectrum And Cinematic Synthesis, 2013 Oglethorpe University
Horror-Comedy: The Chaotic Spectrum And Cinematic Synthesis, Marisa Manuel
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
No abstract provided.
The History Of Shakespeare In American Education, 1620-1930, 2013 Western Michigan University
The History Of Shakespeare In American Education, 1620-1930, Joseph P. Haughey
Dissertations
This dissertation analyzes Shakespeare’s role in American education from colonial times through the Progressive Era. The history is divided into four overlapping historical periods, each represented in its own chapter and derived from four different sets of primary sources. The first chapter provides a synopsis of Shakespeare’s presence in American education in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and then, through case studies of the records of two nineteenth-century university literary societies – the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University and the Sherwood Rhetorical Society of Kalamazoo College – examines the role extracurricular activity played in first introducing Shakespeare at the …
A History And Analysis Of The Works Of Lynn Ahrens And Stephen Flaherty, 2013 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A History And Analysis Of The Works Of Lynn Ahrens And Stephen Flaherty, Matthew Paul Fisher
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In the history of musical theatre there have been several celebrated composer-lyricist teams. For over thirty years in the modern era the talents of librettist-lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty have been heard on stage, in movies, and on television, both in collaboration with others and together. When they formed their professional partnership in 1983 they made a team that would give modern musical theatre its most unique pairing. Their work is not easy to identify. Their source materials vary greatly from show to show and the musical style is never the same. With their level of output, talents, …
Summer Of Shrew, Part 4: Which End’S Up?, 2013 Linfield College
Summer Of Shrew, Part 4: Which End’S Up?, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Faculty Publications
In the last of a four-part series on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner explores how expanding the range of the titular Shrew to include male characters is actually a return to its original meaning. Pollack-Pelzner focuses on a long-forgotten Renaissance sequel to Shrew (John Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed) that takes the taming of men even further and turns its gender roles upside down.
Little Shop Of Horrors, 2013 Otterbein University
Little Shop Of Horrors, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2013 Summer Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors is a delectable sci-fi horror musical with an electrifying 1960s pop/rock score by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.
Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected assistant at a floral shop who happens upon a strange plant, which he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his crush at the shop. Little does he know that this strange and unusual plant will develop a soulful R&B voice, a potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst for HUMAN BLOOD.
As Audrey II grows bigger and meaner, the carnivorous plant promises limitless fame and fortune to Seymour, as long as he continues …
Boeing Boeing, 2013 Otterbein University
Boeing Boeing, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2013 Summer Theatre
A hit comedy similar in vein to Shakespeare’s comedies of merry misadventures and mistaken identities, Boeing Boeing tells the exploits of French bachelor Bernard and his lovely female flight attendants. Three flight attendants, to be exact, from three different countries: and they all believe they’re engaged to Bernard! In the past, Bernard has been able to juggle these women due to his detailed timetable of his fiancés’ flight schedules. When the situation changes and all of the women end up at his apartment on the same day, Bernard (with help from his bewildered friend Robert) struggles to keep them from …
Almost, Maine, 2013 Otterbein University
Almost, Maine, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2013 Summer Theatre
A woman carries her heart, broken into nineteen pieces, in a small paper bag. A man shrinks to half his former size, after losing hope in love. A couple keep the love they have given each other in large red bags, or compress the mass into the size of a diamond. These playful and surreal experiences are commonplace in the world of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine, where on one deeply cold and magical Midwinter Night, the citizens of Almost -- not organized enough for a town, too populated for a wilderness -- experience the life-altering power of the human …
The Curious Savage, 2013 Taylor University
The Curious Savage
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2013 performance of The Curious Savage by John Patrick.
The Curious Savage is the story of Ethel P. Savage, an elderly lady whose husband has died and left her approximately ten million dollars. When she sets up a memorial fund for average people to pursue their dreams, her three stepchildren commit her to a sanatorium and try to discover where she has hidden the fortune. As the search for the fortune plays out the question becomes who is really crazy, the residents of the sanatorium or Ethel’s stepchildren.
Ms-138: Emile O. Schmidt Collection, 2013 Gettysburg College
Ms-138: Emile O. Schmidt Collection, Chelsea M. Bucklin
All Finding Aids
This collection represents an interesting variety of research materials in the area of theatre arts. The majority of the play books in Series I are from Owl & Nightingale productions directed by Emile Schmidt. Series II contains plays written by Emile Schmidt, and Series III consists of a costume sketch created by Emile Schmidt.
Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our …
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, 2013 Otterbein University
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2012-2013 Season
No abstract provided.