EndedDramaHistory
Crash Course Theater
2018–2019 · YouTube · 15 min · 1 season
Latest episode
S01E50 · Broadway Book Musicals
Fri, 1 Mar, 11:00 pm
About
We're back! This year Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about theater and drama. Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! Over the next year, we're going to learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together. It's going to be a great time, very low drama. Except it's all drama. Embrace the paradox, folks.
Episodes
- E01
What is Theater?
Fri, 9 Feb· 15 min - E02
Thespis, Athens, and the Origins of Greek Drama
Fri, 16 Feb· 15 min - E03
Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
Fri, 23 Feb· 15 min - E04
Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
Fri, 2 Mar· 15 min - E05
Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
Fri, 9 Mar· 15 min - E06
Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
Fri, 16 Mar· 15 min - E07
Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
Fri, 23 Mar· 15 min - E08
The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
Fri, 6 Apr· 15 min - E09
Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
Fri, 13 Apr· 15 min - E10
Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
Fri, 20 Apr· 15 min - E11
Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
Fri, 27 Apr· 15 min - E12
Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
Fri, 4 May· 15 min - E13
The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
Fri, 11 May· 15 min - E14
Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
Fri, 18 May· 15 min - E15
Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
Fri, 25 May· 15 min - E16
Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
Fri, 1 June· 15 min - E17
English Theater After Shakespeare
Fri, 8 June· 15 min - E18
Where Did Theater Go?
Fri, 15 June· 15 min - E19
The Spanish Golden Age
Fri, 29 June· 15 min - E20
Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
Fri, 6 July· 15 min - E21
Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
Fri, 13 July· 15 min - E22
Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
Sat, 21 July· 15 min - E23
Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
Fri, 27 July· 15 min - E24
All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
Fri, 3 Aug· 15 min - E25
China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
Fri, 10 Aug· 15 min - E26
England's Sentimental Theater
Fri, 17 Aug· 15 min - E27
Why So Angry, German Theater?
Fri, 24 Aug· 15 min - E28
The Rise of Melodrama
Fri, 7 Sept· 15 min - E29
North America Gets a Theater...Riot
Fri, 14 Sept· 15 min - E30
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
Fri, 21 Sept· 15 min - E31
Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
Fri, 28 Sept· 15 min - E32
Realism Gets Even More Real
Fri, 5 Oct· 15 min - E33
Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
Fri, 12 Oct· 15 min - E34
Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre
Fri, 19 Oct· 15 min - E35
The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
Fri, 2 Nov· 15 min - E36
Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
Fri, 9 Nov· 15 min - E37
Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
Fri, 23 Nov· 15 min - E38
Expressionist Theater
Fri, 30 Nov· 15 min - E39
Futurism and Constructivism
Fri, 7 Dec· 15 min - E40
Little Theater and American Avant Garde
Sat, 15 Dec· 15 min - E41
The Harlem Renaissance
Fri, 21 Dec· 15 min - E42
Federal Theatre and Group Theatre
Fri, 4 Jan· 15 min - E43
Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty
Sun, 13 Jan· 15 min - E44
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre
Fri, 18 Jan· 15 min - E45
Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
Fri, 25 Jan· 15 min - E46
Broadway, Seriously
Fri, 1 Feb· 15 min - E47
The Birth of Off Broadway
Fri, 8 Feb· 15 min - E48
Poor Unfortunate Theater
Fri, 15 Feb· 15 min - E49
Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
Fri, 22 Feb· 15 min - E50
Broadway Book Musicals
Fri, 1 Mar· 15 min