Crash Course Theater and Drama Poster

Crash Course Theater and Drama

★ N/A 2018 1 Seasons

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.

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Episode 1

Episode 1

What Is Theater?

Episode 2

Episode 2

Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama

Episode 3

Episode 3

Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle

Episode 4

Episode 4

Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes

Episode 5

Episode 5

Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody

Episode 6

Episode 6

Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca

Episode 7

Episode 7

Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater

Episode 8

Episode 8

The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama

Episode 9

Episode 9

Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater

Episode 10

Episode 10

Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play

Episode 11

Episode 11

Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen

Episode 12

Episode 12

Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte

Episode 13

Episode 13

The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare

Episode 14

Episode 14

Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days

Episode 15

Episode 15

Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson

Episode 16

Episode 16

Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines

Episode 17

Episode 17

English Theater After Shakespeare

Episode 18

Episode 18

Where Did Theater Go?

Episode 19

Episode 19

The Spanish Golden Age

Episode 20

Episode 20

Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism

Episode 21

Episode 21

Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials

Episode 22

Episode 22

Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana

Episode 23

Episode 23

Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku

Episode 24

Episode 24

All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali

Episode 25

Episode 25

China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera

Episode 26

Episode 26

England's Sentimental Theater

Episode 27

Episode 27

Why So Angry, German Theater?

Episode 28

Episode 28

The Rise of Melodrama

Episode 29

Episode 29

North America Gets a Theater...Riot

Episode 30

Episode 30

Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows

Episode 31

Episode 31

Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism

Episode 32

Episode 32

Realism Gets Even More Real

Episode 33

Episode 33

Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match

Episode 34

Episode 34

Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater

Episode 35

Episode 35

The Horrors of the Grand Guignol

Episode 36

Episode 36

Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance

Episode 37

Episode 37

Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism

Episode 38

Episode 38

Expressionist Theater

Episode 39

Episode 39

Futurism and Constructivism

Episode 40

Episode 40

Little Theater and American Avant Garde

Episode 41

Episode 41

The Harlem Renaissance

Episode 42

Episode 42

Federal Theatre and Group Theater

Episode 43

Episode 43

Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty

Episode 44

Episode 44

Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater

Episode 45

Episode 45

Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd

Episode 46

Episode 46

Broadway, Seriously

Episode 47

Episode 47

The Birth of Off Broadway

Episode 48

Episode 48

Poor Unfortunate Theater

Episode 49

Episode 49

Into Africa and Wole Soyinka

Episode 50

Episode 50

Broadway Book Musicals

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