Discusses panoramas, a quasi artistic-theatrical genre that flourished throughout the nineteenth century and which were, in their own right, a dramatic genre which captured and held the attention of an audience through a combination of broad narrative line, graphic description, telling verisimilitude of action, and infectious comic intrusions.…

Compares findings of what is happening in Russian theatre today with what was being done in the 30's. Particularly discusses the work of Georgi Tovstonogov, Director of the Gorki Theatre in Leningrad, and Yuri Liubimov, Director of the Taganka Theatre in Moscow. (RB)

Focuses on the traditional comic acting style that prevailed in England from 1820 to 1840 by examining the acting of the commedienne whose sixty-year career spanned the first half of the century. (MH)

The conference reported here was attended by educators and theater professionals from 24 countries, grouped into five discussion sections. Summaries of the proceedings of the discussion groups, each followed by postscripts by individual participants who wished to amplify portions of the summary, are presented. The discussion groups and the editors…

For the first time in the history of Japanese theatre, a training program has been developed to prepare young men outside the kabuki families for careers in this very rigorous and demanding form of theatre. (Author)

An examination of the nature and scope of theater training offered in Australian universities, professional schools and workshops. (RB)

Introductory courses in acting and directing should be combined. (CH)

Views the tendency of actors to take on the attitudes of the characters they play as an example of dissonance reduction and investigates dissonance arousal and retardation in terms of the actor and his perception of his performance. (MH)

Cites 217 projects representing 39 institutions in the United States. (Author/RB)

Cites 157 projects representing 29 institutions in the United States. (Author/RD)

A speech delivered before open meeting of Yale School of Drama (New Haven, Conn., January 15, 1969) and published in Yale Alumni Magazine," April 1969; interview conducted July 14, 1969, and published in yale/theatre," Winter 1969. (Editor/RD)