Brooks McNamara
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brooks Barry McNamara was an American theater historian, professor, and contributing editor of The Drama Review. Life McNamara was born in Peoria, Illinois. Upon graduation from Knox College, he pursued a Master of Arts degree at the University of Iowa. Following military service, McNamara earned his PhD in theater arts at Tulane University where Richard Schechner was a professor and editor of the Tulane Drama Review . After earning his PhD, McNamara taught theater history in the Drama Department at the University of Delaware, between 1966 and 1968. At Tulane, Schechner had crystallized a set of principles to describe environmental theater. McNamara illustrated many of them in his set design for his Delaware academic colleague, William Bruehl's production of Faustus.
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Published Works
- Inside the minstrel mask : readings in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy (2001) (103)
- Step Right Up (1976) (29)
- Scenography of Popular Entertainment (1974) (23)
- The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil's Own Nights (2002) (22)
- The American playhouse in the eighteenth century (1969) (16)
- The Indian Medicine Show. (1971) (8)
- The Shuberts of Broadway : a history drawn from the collections of the Shubert Archive (1992) (6)
- An Interview with Percy Press and a Portfolio of Buskers (1975) (5)
- Broadway: A Theatre Historian's Perspective (2001) (5)
- TDR: Memoirs of the Mouthpiece, 1955-1983 (1983) (4)
- American popular entertainments : jokes, monologues, bits, and sketches (1983) (4)
- Theatres, spaces, environments: Eighteen projects (1975) (3)
- Gower Champion: Dance and American Musical Theatre (1999) (3)
- The Medicine Show Log: Reconstructing a Traditional American Entertainment (1984) (2)
- Day of jubilee : the great age of public celebrations in New York, 1788-1909 : illustrated from the collections of the Museum of the city of New York (1997) (2)
- Paterson Strike Pageant (1971) (2)
- Robert Hunter and Androboros (1964) (1)
- Group III: Developing and Improving Artistic Leadership (1968) (1)
- The Stratford Jubilee: Dram to Garrick's Vanity (1962) (1)
- Stuart Sherman's Third Spectacle (1976) (1)
- Plays from the contemporary American theater (2002) (1)
- IV. The Southwark and John Street (1969) (0)
- David Douglass and the Beginnings of American Theater Architecture (1967) (0)
- I. The Amateur Period (1969) (0)
- Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic@@@Day of Jubilee: The Great Age of Public Celebrations in New York, 1788-1909 (1997) (0)
- II. Professional Beginnings (1969) (0)
- American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000 (review) (2003) (0)
- VI. The Theaters of Thomas Wade West (1969) (0)
- Scene Design: 1876-1965 Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg (1968) (0)
- VIII. The Park and The proposed Richmond Theater (1969) (0)
- A Dim View (1966) (0)
- V. Town and country theaters after the Revolution (1969) (0)
- Vessel: The Scenography of Meredith Monk. An Interview (1972) (0)
- Step Right up: An Illustrated History of the American Medicine Show (1977) (0)
- III. The rise of David Douglass (1969) (0)
- VII. Chestnut Street, Federal Street, and the Haymarket (1969) (0)
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