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

I-12 Index
Mitchell, John Cameron, Hedwig and the Angry
Inch, 45, 140, 252, 288
Mitchell, Katie
The Cat in the Hat directed by, 307, 308
Chekhov productions by, 307
The Director’s Craft by, 307
The Forbidden Zone production, 308, 309
Greek classics productions by, 307
high concept productions by, 157
Iphigenia production by, 307
Miss Julie production, 307
The Phoenician Women directed by, 306–307
roots in Stanislavsky’s acting system, 307
as theatrical luminary, 306–309
A Woman Killed with Kindness directed by,
307
Mitchell, Maude, 217
Mnouchkine, Ariane
Les Éphémères (Ephemeral Things), 145
high concept productions by, 157
Mogle, Dean, 120
Molière, Jean-Baptiste
The Bourgeois Gentleman, 27, 117, 241
comédie ballets written by, 241
Dom Juan, 204, 298
Louis XIV patronage of, 204
The Misanthrope, 58
The Rehearsal at Versailles, 145
roles played by, 11
Royal era theatre and genius of, 204, 204
The School for Wives, 175–186
Tartuffe, 157, 278
Theatre of Paris founded by, 8
The Versailles Rehearsal, 145, 314
Molina, Alfred, 12
Molloy (Beckett), 233
Molloy, Dearbhla, 122
Monroe, Marilyn, 41
Monsters of Grace (Wilson), 302
Montserrat, Everest Canto de, 145
Monzaemon, Chikamatsu, 213
Moody, Nikki, 121
Moore, Jason, 153
Morgan, Judson Pearce, 171
Morgan, Peter, The Audience, 288
Los Moros y Los Cristianos (The Moors and the
Christians), 260
Morton, Jelly Roll, 249
Morven, Cristie, 123
Moscow Art Theatre, 41, 44, 146, 218, 222, 293
Moses, Daniel David, 296
Mother Courage (Brecht), 29, 40, 47, 76, 96, 134
The Motherf**ker With the Hat (Guirgis), 274
Motley (three women costume designers),
119, 120
Motown: The Musical, 250
Mouawad, Wajdi, 296
The Mountaintop (Hall), 259, 261
movement
as actor’s instrument, 47, 53–54, 56, 169
business of actor’s small-scale, 168–169
staging (blocking) and directed stage actions
(business), 56
movement art
Blue Man Group, 278, 280
Stomp (Cresswell and McNichols), 279–280
Tubes (Wink, Goldman, and Stanton), 280
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, A Magic Flute
production by Peter Brook, 305
Mrozek, Slawomir, 232
Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shaw), 218
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare),
106, 168
Mudmen hunting ritual (South Pacific), 189
Mugavero, Betsy, 176, 177, 183, 185
Mühe, Ulrich, 275
Mullally, Megan, 26
Mumford, Peter, 109
Murphy, Michael, Sin, a Cardinal Deposed, 272
Murray, Diedre, 250
music
Ben Jonson’s musical masques (dancedramas),
241
choral entrance of The Eumenides
( Aeschylus), 240
early extravaganzas shows with dancing and,
242
elements of tragedy, 28
Greek theatre use of dancing, acting, and, 195
Renaissance plays and use of, 240
used in Shakespearean plays, 240–241
Sondheim’s “pointillist” style of, 249
sound effects and, 127, 128
theatre history role of, 240–242
The Music Man, 150
musical comedy genre, 25, 243
musical drama genre, 243
musical theatre
Big River performance for the hearingimpaired,
268
Broadway musical, 242–245
contemporary, 246–254
early role of music in theatre, 240–242
film versions of musicals, 245
genre of, 27
musical comedy genre of, 243
Mutu, Tam, 200
My Children! My Africa! (Fugard), 298
My Fair Lady (film), 245
My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe), 242, 245
My Mother Has 4 Noses (Brooke), 3
My Name is Rachel Corrie, 272
The Mysteries (Kulick production), 198
The Mysteries (Rivera), 260, 262
mystery plays, 199
Naiambana, Patrice, 34
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 271
National Festival for People With Disabilities,
267
National Theatre (Cluj, Romania), 8, 300
National Theatre Live, 296
National Theatre (London), 74–75, 76, 125, 137,
194, 197, 231, 236, 295, 296, 308
National Theatre of Craiova, 196
National Theatre of Scotland, 272, 274
National Theatre of the Deaf (Connecticut), 267
Native American theatre, 262, 265
Native Voices theatre company (California),
262, 265
naturalism theatre, 219–220
Natyasastra (treatise on theatre) [Bharata Muni],
206
Naughty Marietta (Herbert), 243
Naulin, John, 135
Needham, Matthew, 26
Negro Ensemble Company, 258
Nelson, Anne, The Guys, 71
Nelson, Richard, Franney’s Way, 130
Nero, Emperor, 197
Neuauser, Danton and Karin, 273
New World Stages, 153
New York City Center, 97, 223
New York Classical Theatre, 285, 285, 286
New York Public Theatre, 63, 284, 291
New York Shakespeare Festival, 40, 269
New York theatre
Broadway, 1, 287–288
Broadway musicals, 242–245
off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway, 288–290
the wait for theatre reviews, 316–317
New York Times, 316
New Yorker, 244
Newman, Paul, 41
Newsies (musical), 2, 250
Next to Normal (Yorkey), 242, 252,
253–254, 254
Ngaujah, Sahr, 252
Niblo’s Garden (New York City), 242
Nicholaw, Casey, 153
Nichols, Mike, 75, 174
Nigerian masquerade, 14
The Night Alive (McPherson), 296
Nixon, Cynthia, 69
No Exit (Sartre), 231–232
No (Japanese theatre), origins and description
of, 209–211
No Man’s Land (Pinter), 49
No, No, Nanette (Youmans), 243
Noises Off (Frayn), 313
nonprofit theatres, 291
nontraditional casting, 267, 269
The Normal Heart (Kramer), 266, 268
The Norman Conquests (Ayckbourn), 237
Norman, Marsha, 257
Bridges of Madison County, 113, 124
Norris, Bruce, Clybourne Park, 62, 288, 291
North American Shakespeare festivals, 292
Not I (Beckett), 3
Nottage, Lynn, 74
Crumbs from the Table of Joy, 159
Pulitzer Prize won by, 258
Ruined, 159, 259, 273, 291
Novoselov, Denis, 314
Nowra, Louis, The Emperor of Sydney, 298
Ntshona, Winston, 300
Nübling, Sebastian, 154, 166
Nuemann, Bert, The Insulted and Injured, 109
Nunn, Trevor, 252
Oakley, Annie, 245
Oberammergau Passion Play, 198
O’Byrne, Brian F., 122
O’Casey, Sean, 296
The Octoroon (Boucicault), 265
An Octoroon (Jacobs-Jensen), 265
Odéon Theatre (Paris), 298, 314
Odets, Clifford
Awake and Sing, 220
Waiting for Lefty, 17, 276
The Odyssey (Homer), 81
Oedipus (Aristotle), 22, 23
Oedipus Tyrannos (Sophocles), 22, 27, 86–87,
197
Of Thee I Sing (Gershwin and Gershwin),
242, 244
Off-Broadway Public Theatre, 291
off-Broadway theatres, 288–289
off-off-Broadway, 289–290
Offenbach, Jacques
La Belle Hélène, 243
Orpheus in the Underworld, 243
La Périchole, 243