Category Archives: Book/Media Reviews
Book Review: The Octoroon
The Octoroon: The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition (Broadview Editions) Boucicault, Dion Edited by Sarika Bose Calgary, Canada: Broadview Press, 2014 ISBN: 9781554812110 138 pp. Dion Boucicault’s romantic melodrama, adapted from the 1856 Thomas Mayne Reid novel The Quadroon, opened on December 6, 1859 at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre. In the over […]
Book Review: The Group Theatre
The Group Theatre: Passion, Politics, Performance in the Depression Era Chinoy, Helen Krich Edited by Don B. Wilmeth and Milly S. Barranger New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013 ISBN: 9781137294593 283 pp. The Group Theatre is the posthumous publication and culmination of author Helen Krich Chinoy’s lifelong dedication to the history of this landmark American theatre […]