Performing Arts · Theatre Practice
A topic within Theatre Practice, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
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Play Production in America
Arthur Edwin Krows · 1916
Surveys how American plays actually reached the stage — casting, rehearsal, touring and the director's authority over a production — to argue that…
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The Exemplary Theatre
Harley Granville-Barker · 1922
Argues a national theatre only works as a disciplined repertory ensemble answering to one directing vision, not a star system built around single…
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Arthur Edwin Krows
Surveys how American plays actually reached the stage — casting, rehearsal, touring and the director's authority over a production — to argue that staging had become a distinct craft separate from playwriting.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Harley Granville-Barker
Argues a national theatre only works as a disciplined repertory ensemble answering to one directing vision, not a star system built around single productions.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Jerzy Grotowski
Argues theatre should strip away every element inessential to the actor-spectator encounter — sets, costumes, lighting, even a fixed text — because an actor's disciplined physical and vocal training, not production spectacle, is what theatre alone can offer.