CONTEMPORARY Theatre & Performance MULTICULTURALISM/ DIVERSITY • African-American Theatre • Global Theatre
• LGBTQ • Performance
• Asian-American • Performance Art Theatre • Experimental Theatre • Latino Theatre (LATC) AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEATRE
• August Wilson (1945-2005) - Fences (1987)
• Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1988)
• The Piano Lesson (1990) ASIAN-AMERICAN THEATRE
• East/West Players (downtown LA)
• David Henry Huang - M. Butterfly, Bondage, Yellow Face LGBTQ
• Charles Ludlam (19431987) died of AIDS— founded The Ridiculous Theatre Company- The Mystery of Irma Vep (1984) with Everett Quinton
• Tony Kushner- Angels in America (1993)
• Larry Kramer -The Normal Heart (1985)
• Terence McNally - Mothers and Sons (2014)
• Split Britches (WOW Cafe)- Beauty and The Beast (1982), Belle Reprieve (1990), Lesbians Who Kill (1992)
• The Tectonic Theatre Company (The Laramie Project)
• Rent, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Kinky Boots, Fun Home LATINO THEATRE • LATC (Latino Theatre Company- LA Theatre Center)- founded 1985 by Artistic Director, Jose Luis Valenzuela
• Zoot Suit (1979) by Luis Valdez- made into a film (1981)
• based on the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial (1942) and the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51xwySGNYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwINn5DEL1c GLOBAL THEATRE
• Takarazuka Revue (Drag performance in Japan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLy2iOnBnsA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wccu0JjcLw
• Handspring Puppet Company (South Africa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAkQCbuvqg
• Chinese Performance (spectacle) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G94rHwWrZOY PERFORMANCE /ART & Experimental Theatre
• Mabou Mines Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach (1984- BAM) Richard Foreman’s King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe!, New York City (2004) performance artist, actress, activist Rachel Rosenthal
PERFORMANCE ART in Theatre/s • PS122 artists- and the rise of the • Carmelita Tropicana one-person show • Guillermo Pena Gomez • Spalding Gray • Annie Sprinkle • Eric Bogosian • Rachel Rosenthal • Tim Miller (Highways- Santa Monica, CA) • Anna Deveare Smith
• Holly Hughes • Eve Ensler
• John Fleck • Raquel Salinas
• Karen Finley • Jesusa Rodriguez Eric Bogosian https://vimeo.com/143294891
Vaginal Davis https://vimeo.com/40943592
About Jesusa Rodriguez http://www.hemi.nyu.edu/cuaderno/holyterrorsweb/jesusa/index.html OTHER PLAYWRIGHTS- 1980S, 1990S • Sam Shepard
• Christopher Durang
• Terence McNally
• John Patrick Shanley SHIFT IN EXPOSURE FOR WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS? • Annie Baker • Anna Deveare Smith
• Lisa Kron • Suhayla El-Bushra
• Sarah Ruhl • Sarah Kane
• Suzan-Lori Parks • Young Jean Lee
• Lynn Nottage • Amy Herzog
• Ntozake Shange • Alice Tuan
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jan/11/is-2016-the-year-of-the-female-playwright Robert Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zsd-K5aKyI
Caremelita Tropicana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJdvYN_QF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=813L3yWZYKg
The America Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeE7xe_KgTA