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Theatre Guild, The   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Performing arts, Music
Length:
378 words
America's most durable, influential, and prestigious theatre organization, it played an instrumental part in the American theatre and was responsible for some classic Broadway musicals as ... More
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
197 words

American art theatre that emerged from the *Washington Square Players in 1918, reconstituted as fully professional through the efforts of ...

Theater Guild

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The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
336 words

New York theatre company known in the 1920s for productions of innovative European dramas and new American plays. An outgrowth

Theatre Guild

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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
399 words
New York, theatre production company, evolved out of the work of the Washington Square Players for the presentation of non-commercial plays, American and foreign, to a subscription ... More
Theatre Guild, The

Theatre Guild, The   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to American Literature (6 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Literature
Length:
142 words

was founded by former members of the Washington Square Players (1918). Originally a little-theater group, it specialized in the production of contemporary work, producing most of ...

Theatre Guild, The

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The Oxford Companion to American Theatre (3 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
506 words

The most exciting and responsible producing organization of the 1920s and 1930s, it began as an outgrowth of the defunct

Theatre Guild

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Mark Fearnow

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
245 words

American art theatre that emerged from the Washington Square Players in 1918. The Players were reconstituted as the Guild through the efforts of ...

Theatre Guild, The

Theatre Guild, The   Reference library

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Music
Length:
425 words
Founded in New York in 1919 by Lawrence Langner (b. 30 May 1890, Swansea, Wales, d. 26 December 1962), The Theatre Guild’s intention was to stage non-commercial plays of both American and ... More

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