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Theater history in United States

As in the rest of the artistic disciplines, the theater created in the United States was
born as an imitation of the European, especially English, dramatic tradition.
However, he soon acquired a tone of his own that would reach its peak in the
twentieth century, with the Nobel Prize of 1936, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) and
other writers of the stature of Tenesee Williams (1911-1983 ). Today, the United
States is the most important professional theater center in the world, and there is a
proliferation of companies, workshops and theater schools covering all kinds of
genres.

The American theatrical genre par excellence is the musical, which has its
international center in Broadway street of New York. Another very important
theatrical nucleus is the one of the city of Chicago, with a scene of enormous
dynamism and variety. Outside of these nuclei, the theater of the United States is
also very present, not only in other large cities, but also in small rural populations
where the implementation of ambitious works is frequent.

In later works he resorts to symbolism and stage plays, such as The Great God
Brown (1925), Expressionist and Pirandellian piece in his masquerade play, or
Strange Interlude (1927), whose characters alternate what they say and what they
think .

Tennesse Williams (1911-1983) reflects the southern rural mentality through

frustrated and marginalized characters of the lower classes. He often adds some
pathology, as in The Glass Zoo (1944), which symbolizes the fragility of its
protagonists, or A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).

Its fundamental theme is the lack of communication between human beings, which
produces misunderstanding and even tragedies, as in The cat on the roof of hot
zinc (1955).

Arthur Miller (1915) is the playwright of the typical American urban environments,
where the individual is overcome by forces that surpass him. His most famous
work, The Death of a Traveler (1949), reflects the dark face of the obsession with
the triumph of the "American dream."

60 until today

After the Actor's Studio and the beat movement, the theater, especially the
musical, lives a renewed splendor. On Broadway there is a great effervescence
during the 60s. The civil rights movement, social instability and the moral openness
of the time result in works of great success like "Hair", which include nudes and
drug use on stage. Others, such as "West Side Story," beat up new audience
records on Broadway, while Bob Fosse's "A Chorus Line," which honors the
vaudeville, does in Chicago. It is a time of openness, and there is a continuous
transfer between established Broadway industry and off-Broadway, or
experimental theater. In the works openly talk about issues such as homosexuality,
AIDS and drugs. In addition, high-quality assemblies for immigrants begin to take
place: in the 1970s, Frank Chin and Henry Hwang performed successful works for
the Asian community, while Luis Valdez, representative of Teatro Campesino, did
so for the Spanish-American community. At the present time, musicals of the time
are still represented on Broadway, and are considered classics that continue to
count on the favor of the public. At the same time, new montages that cover all
kinds of subjects continue to be born, with the adaptations of cinematographic
works as an example of the most popular trend today.

Theater history in UK

English popolar theater began to be represented in impromptu stages, as the

courtyards of inns, to which a public appeared diverse. But at the beginning of the
Elizabethan cycle there were already places specifically built for theatrical
performances. The most important were built in the vicinity of London, because
within the city the theater was forbidden. Especially outstanding were The Swan,
circular, and The Globe, hexagonal. These forms allowed the greater part of the
public to be distributed in the central courtyard of the building, outdoors, around the
stage that partially occupied what today would be the patio of armchairs.
Representations were made only in benign climate seasons.

The Theater was introduced in England from Europe in the time of the Romans,
and theaters were built all over the country for this purpose. The theater is an
outstanding genre within English literature, its greatest literary figure is precisely a
playwright, William Shakespeare, also deserving to be noted that keeps the
theatrical tradition alive, both in groups of amateurs and in professional theater,
with prestigious companies like The Royal Shakespeare Company and numerous
theaters in London's West End.

In medieval times the mummers' plays, a form of street theater associated with the
dances of Morris, were developed, concentrating on subjects like St. George and
the Dragon and Robin Hood. They were folk tales that recounted the old stories,
and the actors traveled from city to city interpreting these works for the public in
exchange for money and hospitality.

Complex religiously inspired Christian works were performed during religious

festivities. During the reign of Elizabeth I in the late sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries, a London-centered culture that was both courteous and
popular produced great poetry and theater. Perhaps the most famous playwright in
the world, William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote works that are still
performed in theaters all over the world to this day. He was an actor and was
deeply involved in the performance of the theater company performing his plays.
Other important playwrights during this period were Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)
with The Tragic Story of Doctor Faust, Edward II or Tambourlaine; Ben Johnson,
and John Webster.

References

http://www.hiru.eus/literatura/el-teatro-contemporaneo-en-europa-y-en-estados-unidos

http://blog-eeuu.com/teatro-en-estados-unidos

http://literaturauniversalisabellacatolica.blogspot.mx/2011/01/el-teatro-isabelino-en-
inglaterra.html

https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-el-teatro-de-los-estados-unidos-historia-y-
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