This Month In Theatre History
We take a look back at significant moments in theatre history for February.
Category Archives: Theatre History
This Month In Theatre History (January 2014)
What happened in theatre history this month? We’ll tell you.
How Split Britches Joined Lesbian Performance With the Avant-Garde
At the seminal WOW Cafe and beyond, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have inspired generations of theatremakers with their seriously playful hybrid of vaudeville, drag, and postmodern appropriation.
Student Assistant to Jerzy Grotowski Reveals Secrets From Inside the Lab
When the Polish theatre guru came to teach in Irvine in the 1980s, he turned the group into a new experiment in mystery and discipline.
This Month in Theatre History (December 2013)
From the birth of a Ringling Brother to the Neo-Futurists, a look at some larger-than-life happenings in past Decembers.
Eddie Dowling Recalls the Fragile Intensity of the First ‘Glass Menagerie’
The original Tom Wingfield in the 1945 premiere of Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play recalls its rocky, bittersweet road to the Broadway stage.
This Month In Theatre History (November 2013)
A precursor to the L.A. Stage Alliance forms, Charlie Chaplin’s final bow, and more that happened this month in history.
This Month in Theatre History (October 2013)
What happened in theatre history this month? We’ll tell you.
This Month in Theatre History (September 2013)
Theatrical milestones of Septembers past range from the start of van Itallie’s relationship with the Open Theater to the launch of the Arden.
This Month in Theatre History (July/August 2013)
Past Julys and Augusts witnessed birth, death, and the collapse of a theatre.
