Caricature in Great Britain
William Hogarthwas the father of both English popular painting andEnglish caricature. In the 18th century his example was followed…
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Sculpture in England
Much medieval sculpture was in the churches, and was destroyed at the Reformation and by the Puritans in the 17th century, but man…
Avant-garde Theatre
The term avant-garde (derived from a French militaristic term meaning vanguard) in avant-garde theatre refers to the pioneering in…
Madame X
Madame X was originally a three-actFrench courtroom drama,La femme X(1908), byAlexandre Bisson(18481912). It was translated into E…
Edith Isaacs
Edith Juliet Rich Isaacsbegan her career in theater in 1904 as a critic for Ainslees Magazine. By 1918, she became editor of the i…
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is an English actor-manager, who was one of the greatest figures of theVictorian theater. He was born in…
National Ethiopian Art Theater ART National Ethiopian Art Theater
The National Ethiopian Art Theater (NEAT) in New York was a short-lived little theater group and school that promoted playwriting …
Choreography
Originally referring todance notation, by the beginning of the twentieth century the term came to mean the art of making dances as…
Organic Art
Despite its seemingly trendy and up-to-the-minute image, the comparison of a work of art to an organism dates back to classical an…
Improvisation
Improvisation has become an indispensable tool inpostwar theatre. It is accepted as a valuable method for actors to explore both t…
