Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780810143814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 344 str.

Stuart J. Hecht; Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud; Megan E. Geigner

Spis treści

• Introduction: Chicago Theater as Makeshift Performance, Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
• Section I: Theater: Artistry Born of Ashes, Stuart J. Hecht
• 1. Entertaining People: The 1893 Columbian Exposition Midway Plaisance, Rosemarie K. Bank
• 2. From Marmalade to Gingerbread: The Columbian Exposition, Chicago’s 57th Street Artist Colony, and the Theaters it Spawned, Stuart J. Hecht
• 3. All Passes – Art Alone Endures: Staging the New Drama at the Fine Arts Building, Shannon Epplett
• Section II: From Mainstream to Institutionalized, Megan E. Geigner
• 4. Pillars of the Community: Reversing the Flow between the Goodman and Immigrant Theater, Megan E. Geigner
• 5. Theatrical Geographies of Segregation: Spatial Displacement in Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog, Aaron Krall
• 6. Lincoln Avenue and the Off-Loop Scene: Urban Renewal, and the Early Years of the Chicago Storefront Movement, Cat Gleason
• 7. Object Permanence: ImprovOlympic and the Legitimacy of Improv in Chicago, Travis Stern
• Section III: Centering the Decentered, Itinerant, Civic, and Home, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
• 8. Reclaiming Space: An Oral History of Teatro Vista, Laura Lodewyck
• 9. Temple-Swapping in the City: The Spatial Imaginary and Performances of Place-Making in the Work of Theaster Gates, LaRonika Thomas
• 10. Staging Private Homes and the Transformations of Public Lives: A conversation with Irina Zadov, Laley Lippard, Aymar Jean Christian, and Meida McNeal of the Chicago Home Theater Festival, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
• Epilogue: Chicago Theater amidst Pandemics, Megan E. Geigner and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud