Crash Course Theater and Drama

PG-13

February 2018

Documentary

We're back! This year Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about theater and drama. Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! Over the next year, we're going to learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together. It's going to be a great time, very low drama. Except it's all drama. Embrace the paradox, folks.

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2018-02-09

Last Air Date:

2019-03-01

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Returning Series

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Mike Rugnetta

1. What Is Theater?

2. Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama

3. Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle

4. Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes

5. Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody

6. Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca

7. Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater

8. The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama

9. Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater

10. Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play

11. Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen

12. Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte

13. The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare

14. Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days

15. Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson

16. Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines

17. English Theater After Shakespeare

18. Where Did Theater Go?

19. The Spanish Golden Age

20. Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism

21. Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials

22. Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana

23. Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku

24. All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali

25. China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera

26. England's Sentimental Theater

27. Why So Angry, German Theater?

28. The Rise of Melodrama

29. North America Gets a Theater...Riot

30. Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows

31. Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism

32. Realism Gets Even More Real

33. Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match

34. Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater

35. The Horrors of the Grand Guignol

36. Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance

37. Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism

38. Expressionist Theater

39. Futurism and Constructivism

40. Little Theater and American Avant Garde

41. The Harlem Renaissance

42. Federal Theatre and Group Theater

43. Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty

44. Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater

45. Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd

46. Broadway, Seriously

47. The Birth of Off Broadway

48. Poor Unfortunate Theater

49. Into Africa and Wole Soyinka

50. Broadway Book Musicals