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Shows for Families. The popular theatrical shows of the 1850s and 1860s were often lewd, and designed for a male audience. The shows presented a variety of entertainment: dancing girls,...
Before the advent of television in the late 1940s, radio was the most popular mass medium in America. During radio's " Golden Age " from 1929 through the end of World War II , radio's comedy-variety, soap opera, and drama programs were a part of the daily lives of most Americans.
Dec 4, 2017 · When it comes to written-for-radio dramatic pieces, tradition says that the earliest radio drama in the US was a show called The Wolf, an adaptation of a stage play by Eugene Walter Based on a play by Charles Somerville that aired out of WGY Schenechtedy in 1924.
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As more television sets began to be sold, a question arose: what sort of programming could fill the networks’ airtime? Because television, like motion pictures, was characterized by moving images and synchronized sound, one natural style to emulate was that of Hollywood films. But movies were expensive, time-consuming productions that required mult...
As more television sets began to be sold, a question arose: what sort of programming could fill the networks’ airtime? Because television, like motion pictures, was characterized by moving images and synchronized sound, one natural style to emulate was that of Hollywood films. But movies were expensive, time-consuming productions that required mult...
Cinema had been a popular form of entertainment in America before World War Two. Cinema audiences had been in decline as television became more popular after the war. Changes in how people could...
Western theatre - American, Drama, Performance: The growth of the early American theatre owed more to its actors than to its dramatists. In the early decades of the 19th century, the finest English actors, notably Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble, visited the United States and provided a stimulus for the local actors ...
In the 1920s, theatre was categorized into two main divisions: "legitimate" or classical theatre, serious and dramatic plays, and musical, comedy, and commercial theatre, which tended to be more upbeat and happy.
