Brooks Mcnamara

Biographic Data

ID3586483
NAMEBrooks Mcnamara
GIVEN NAMESBrooks
FAMILY NAMEMcnamara
SIGNATUREMCNAMARA B
AFFILIATIONSEmeritus Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts/NYU.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX1

  • American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000 (review)

    Brooks McnamaraARTICLETheatre Journal2003

    Thomas S. Hischak's American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000, is essentially what the title implies, though the book makes no attempt [End Page 569] to move outside New York City.In the preface the editor tells us:"All Broadway non- musical productions are included, as well as virtually all Off-Broadway entries and a representative selection of Off-Off-Broadway offerings. Each season (June 1 to May 31) is covered chronological…

  • Broadway: A Theatre Historian's Perspective

    Brooks McnamaraARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2001

    Theatre is a mixed bag of high, low, pop, and media. Scholars pay attention to just about everything—except Broadway. But what is Broadway? A district, a state of mind, a money-making machine, a style of theatre

  • Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy

    John Dougan, Annemarie Bean et al.ARTICLEAmerican Music2001

  • Day of Jubilee: The Great Age of Public Celebrations in New York, 1788- 1909

    Frank Cogliano, Brooks Mcnamara et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Day of Jubilee: The Great Age of Public Celebrations in New York 1788–1909. By Brooks McNamara. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997. xxii, 209 pp. and Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic. By Len Travers. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. x, 278 pp. Get access Frank Cogliano Frank Cogliano University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other …

  • Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic

    Joshua Lupkin, Len Travers et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1997Cited by: 1

  • The Drama Review; Thirty Years of Commentary on the Avant-Garde

    Christopher Baugh, Brooks Mcnamara et al.ARTICLEDance Research1987

  • Talking

    Brooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1987

  • The Medicine Show Log: Reconstructing a Traditional American Entertainment

    Brooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1984

  • TDR: Memoirs of the Mouthpiece, 1955-1983

    Brooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1983

  • Western Popular Theatre

    Brooks Mcnamara, Danila Mayer et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1979Cited by: 2

  • Theatres, Spaces, Environments: Eighteen Projects

    Carol Rosen, Brooks Mcnamara et al.ARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1977

  • Step Right up: An Illustrated History of the American Medicine Show

    Bonnie Marranca, Bonnie G Marranca et al.ARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1977

  • Stuart Sherman's Third Spectacle

    Open AccessBrooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1976

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  • The Scenography of Popular Entertainment

    Open AccessBrooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1974

    There have been few attempts to seriously examine the architecture and design of traditional popular entertainments. For the most part, popular forms have not been thought to involve a high level of design or systematic organization of performance space. Yet, over the years, there. has emerged a distinctive scenography of popular entertainment. It has borrowed from conventional theatre, festivals, and folk performance. Essentially, however, it co…

  • Spartakiade

    Open AccessJohn E Bonn, Nathaniel Buchwald et al.ARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1973

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  • Vessel: The Scenography of Meredith Monk

    Open AccessBrooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1972

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  • Paterson Strike Pageant

    Open AccessBrooks Mcnamara, Jessie Ashley et al.ARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1971Cited by: 1

    On June 7, 1913, the Industrial Workers of the World presented the Paterson Strike Pageant at Madison Square Garden. It was a powerful and innovative use of the pageant form: On a huge stage, more than 200 feet long and capable of holding more than 1,000 performers, workers from silk factories at Paterson, New Jersey, recreated the central events of their strike, which was led by the IWW. The strike had begun in February. By June, two workers had…

  • The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century

    Open AccessDonald N Koster, Brooks McnamaraARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1970

  • The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century

    Julian Mates, Brooks McnamaraARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1970

  • The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century

    George H Quinby, Brooks McnamaraARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1969

  • The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century

    Earle W Newton, Brooks Mcnamara et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1969

  • The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century

    Pat M Ryan, Brooks McnamaraARTICLEJournal of American History1969Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The American Playhouse in the Eighteenth Century. By Brooks McNamara. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. xviii + 174 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $9.95.) Get access Pat M. Ryan Pat M. Ryan State University of New York, Brockport Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 2, September 1969, Pages 350–351, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908132 Pub…

  • Scene Design: 1876-1965 Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg

    Open AccessBrooks McnamaraARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1968

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  • David Douglass and the Beginnings of American Theater Architecture

    Brooks McnamaraARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1967