Robert Cohen - Theatre, Brief Version-McGraw-Hill Education (2016)

I-8 Index
“Great White Way” (Broadway), 108, 287
Greek plays
Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 106
Antigone (Sophocles), 13
The Bacchae (Euripides), 194
Les Danaïdes (Purcaree production), 196
The Eumenides (Aeschylus), 240
The Frogs (Aristophanes), 194
Iphigenia (Mitchell production), 307
masks used in 2014 production of, 313
The Odyssey (Homer), 81
Oedipus Tyrannos (Sophocles), 22, 27,
86–87, 197
Oresteia (Aeschylus), 2, 21
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), 96–97, 116
The Suppliants (Aeschylus), 196
The Trojan Women (Euripides), 27, 106
See also ancient drama
Greek theatre
actors of, 194–195
celebratory drama in, 72
City (or Great) Dionysia site, 193, 195–196
costumes of, 116
costuming of, 195
Greek drama as foundation of Western
theatre, 193
music, dancing, and acting in the, 195
origins and evolution of, 193–196
Poetics (Aristotle) on drama and, 194
ruins of Priene, 195
satyr play, 196
setting and audience of, 2
shared history of theatre and games in, 11
tetralogy, 196
theatre buildings, 8
theatron (“seeing place”), name for, 6
trilogy, 196
use of sunlight in, 106–107
See also ancient Greece
Green Room, 49
Greenberg, Richard
crafted language used by, 28
Eastern Standard, 112
Take Me Out, 10
The Greenshow (Utah Shakespeare Festival), 291
Greenwood, Jane, 122
Gregory, André, 231
Greif, Michael, 63, 254
Grey, Joel, 268
Griffin, Andrew F., 147
Groff, Jonathan, 12
Grotowski, Jerzy, 231
Group Theatre (actor group), 41, 45, 220
Guardian magazine, 306, 307
Guardians of the Galaxy (film), 13, 269
Guirgis, Stephen Adly, The Motherf**ker With
the Hat, 274
Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis), 6, 171, 291
Guys and Dolls (film), 245
Guys and Dolls (Loesser), 135, 242, 245
The Guys (Nelson), 71
Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 291
Gypsy (Styne), 247, 248
Hair (1968), 256
Hair (2009 revival), 103, 105, 272
Hair (2014), 258
hairstyles, 120
hairstylists, 142
The Hairy Ape (O’Neill), 226–229, 227
Half Life (2015 production), 132
Hall, Katori, The Mountaintop, 259, 261
Hall, Lee, Billy Elliott, 253
Hall, Peter, 194, 236
Hall, Rebecca, 123
Hamilton, Josh, 78
Hamilton (musical), 246, 254
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
entertainment value of, 314–315
historical accuracy approach to costumes of,
117
Kolyada Theatre (Russia) production of, 314
lines of dialogue from, 61
parody of genres in, 24
Peter Brook’s production of, 153, 304
and relationship to the theatre, 313
Robert Wilson’s adaptation of, 301–302
theme of, 27
Wooster Group production of, 223
Hamlet...The Rest Is Silence (Synetic Theatre
production), 280, 281
Hammerstein, Oscar II
Carousel, 242, 245
Flower Drum Song, 76
The King and I, 245
Oklahoma!, 242, 245, 246, 248
Show Boat, 243
The Sound of Music, 242
South Pacific, 123
Sunny, 243
Hand to God, 284
Handspring Puppet Company, 134
The Hangover (film), 226
Hangzhou Yueju Opera Company, 212
Hannah, John, 99
Hansberry, Lorraine, 74
A Raisin in the Sun, 62, 258
Happiness sound rehearsal, 129, 131
Happy Days (Beckett), 241, 316
Happy End (Brecht), 241
Hard, Alex, 99
Harden, Marcia Gay, 302
Hare, David
as English dramatist, 295
Skylight, 63
Stuff Happens, 272
Harnick, Sheldon, Fiddler on the Roof,
176, 245
Harrington, Wendall K., 135
Harris, Ed, 78, 80, 281
Harris, Julie, 281
Harris, Neil Patrick, 45, 120
Harrower, David, Blackbird, 167
Hart, Lorenz
Babes in Arms, 243
A Connecticut Yankee, 243
Dearest Enemy, 243
musical lyrics of, 243
On Your Toes, 243
Pal Joey, 244
Hart, Moss
Lady in the Dark, 245
You Can’t Take It With You, 4, 115
Haskell Indian Nations University
(Kansas), 262
Hatley, Tim, 97, 109
Hauptmann, Gerhart
The Sunken Bell, 221
symbolist influence on, 221
The Weavers, 218
Havel, Václav, 299
Hawke, Ethan, 123
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter, 63, 76
Hay Fever (Coward), 88
hearing-impaired audience, 267
Hecht, Deborah, 51
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 212
Hedda, or Aspiration Sky High (Hangzhou Yueju
Opera Company production), 212
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell and
Trask), 45, 140, 252, 288
The Heidi Chronicles (Wasserstein), 129, 288
Hellman, Lillian, 74
Hello Dolly!, 247
Henderson, Mark, 90
Henderson, Martin, 90
Henkel, Karen, 154, 271
Henkel, Karin, 298
Henley, Beth, 257
Henry IV, Part II (Shakespeare), 203
Henry V (Shakespeare), 93, 95, 286
Henslowe, Philip, diary of, 91
Heraclitus, 309
Herbert, Victor
Babes in Toyland, 243
Naughty Marietta, 243
Here I Come: Translations; Dancing at
Lughnasa (Friel), 296
Here Lies Love, 284
Hermansen, Phil, 180
Heywood, Thomas A Woman Killed with
Kindness, 307
Hickey, John Benjamin, 268
Hicks, Greg, 197
high concept productions, 157–158
Hill, J. Leubrie, Darktown Follies of 1914, 243
The Hill Town Plays (Thurber), 272–273
The History Boys (Bennett), 100, 101
history play genre, 25
Hit the Deck (Youmans), 243
HMS Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan), 242
Hoffman, Dustin, 41
Holbrook, Hal, 281
Holder, Don
Big Fish lighting by, 114
Bridges of Madison County lighting by, 113
Eastern Standard lighting by, 112
The Lion King lighting by, 115
photo essay on, 112–115
working on Pippin lighting, 112, 113, 114
You Can’t Take It With You lighting by, 115
Holler If Ya Hear Me, 250
Hollywood Bowl, 258
Hollywood Reporter, 254
Holocaust, 163
Homebody/Kabul (Kushner), 75, 263
Homer, The Odyssey, 81
homophobia issues, 267
Honeymoon in Vegas, 288
Hooks, Robert, 258
Hopkins, Laura, 93
Horace (Roman poet), 39
Horton, Gregory, 178
Houdinière, Virginia, 204, 298
House and Garden (Ayckbourn), 237
house managing, 10
Housman, A. E., 94, 259
How Come? (Pinkard), 243
How to Succeed in Business without Really
Trying (musical), 41, 242
How You Talk the Game (Reza), 304
Hudes, Quiara Alegria, Water by the Spoonful,
291