‘Art’ Archives
National Ethiopian Art Theater
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 and dramatic performance by blacks. Organizers and teachers of NEAT included Anne Wolter and Henry Creamer. Theophilus Lewis, an ardent supporter of black theater who was the [...]
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917) Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is an English actor-manager, who was one of the greatest figures of the Victorian theater. He was born in London; the noted caricaturist and writer Max Beerbohm was his half brother. Beerbohm Tree became manager of the Haymarket Theatre in 1887 and of Her Majesty's Theatre, which [...]
Edith Isaacs
Edith Isaacs Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs began her career in theater in 1904 as a critic for Ainslee’s Magazine. By 1918, she became editor of the influential magazine Theatre Arts. It was then that she established herself as one of the most important and influential members of the American theater community. One of Isaacs’s main projects was [...]
Madame X
Madame X Madame X was originally a three-act French courtroom drama, La femme X (1908), by Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912). It was translated into English by John Raphael and was adapted for both the British and the American theater, made into six American motion pictures, and made once into a television drama. The dates of some of the American [...]
Avant-garde Theatre
Avant-garde Theatre The term ‘avant-garde’ (derived from a French militaristic term meaning ‘vanguard’) in avant-garde theatre refers to the pioneering innovation in a progressive, experimentally-based anti-establishment theatre. Avant-garde theatre seeks to artistically and aesthetically surpass existing forms of dramatic performance [...]
Sculpture in England
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 many Celtic and Anglo-Saxon crosses from the 7th to the 11 th centuries survived and many Norman churches have rich carvings. One of the best examples of Gothic Sculpture in England is the west [...]
Caricature in Great Britain
Caricature in Great Britain William Hogarth was the father of both English popular painting and English caricature. In the 18th century his example was followed by Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray and later, George Cruikshank. The Victorian age was too respectable for satire and caricature: the popular comic magazine Punch, founded in 1841, [...]
The Rambert Dance Company
The Rambert Dance Company The Rambert Dance Company is a leading ballet company based in London which specializes in performing modern ballets, and often tours abroad. It was founded in London in 1930 by the ballet dancer and teacher Marie Rambert. The Ballet Rambert is roughly the contemporary of the Royal Ballet, but, because it has remained [...]
Morris Dance
Morris Dance Morris dance is any of various old English country dances, usu. performed outdoors in summer by a group of men who wear special white clothes, often with ribbons and small bells around the knees. Morris dance is said to have originated as a dance of shepherds and is still performed by people who try to preserve the old English [...]
The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet The Royal Ballet is Britain's national ballet company, which includes mnny dancers of international quality, and has its base at Covent Garden (the Royal Opera House) in London. It was founded in 1931, renamed the Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1941 and became the Royal Ballet in 1956, when it merged with the Sadler's Wells Theatre [...]
