Theatre Of The Usa Xxth Century

Theatre in the USA- Century XXth
* Main genres: Vaudeville, Musical, Drama, Revue.
Vaudeville:
It is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the USA. Each performance was made up of aseries of separate unrelated acts grouped together on a single show. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, acrobats, illustrated songs,jugglers, one-act plays.
Called “the heart of American show business”, Vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades.
Vaudeville theatres werebuilt between 1900 and 1920.
Musical:
It is a genre where you will hear and see a story told through the performance of singing, speech and dance.
The advance of motion pictures led to many changesin theatre, musicals became popular because the early films had no sound, and thus not compete.
During the post-world War II generation, it reached maturity.

DRAMA:
It enacts some episode orconflict in the lives of the characters, combined with music and dance. It has a happy ending, often a farce.
During the period between the World Wars, drama came to maturity, thanks to the works ofEugene O’ Neill.
During the period of the Great Depression (economic depression) in the thirties, plays took on social roles, identifying with immigrants and the unemployed. In those years the presidentRoosevelt set up The Theatre Project which promoted theatre and provided jobs for actors.
Important playwrights were Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.

REVUE
It is a type of multi-act populartheatrical entertainment, consisting of unconnected songs, sketches, comedy routines, and scantily-clad dancing girls.
It had its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Like much of that era’s popularentertainments, revues often featured material based on sophisticated, irreverent dissections of topical matters, public personae and fads, though the primary attraction was found in the frank display of...