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Negotiating the Entertainment Business: Theatrical Brokers around 1900
Global Theatre History · Publication · Theatre History · Transnational History

Negotiating the Entertainment Business: Theatrical Brokers around 1900

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Special focus issue of the Popular Entertainment Studies Journal, Vol 6, No 2 (2015) Guest Editor: Nic Leonhardt (Munich) “Between the artist who seeks for an engagement and the manager always on the look out for an extraordinary ‛novelty,’”, write Hughes Le Roux and Jules Garnier in Acrobats and Mountebanks (1890), “a third person necessarily…… Continue reading Negotiating the Entertainment Business: Theatrical Brokers around 1900

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New Paper out: “Re-routing the World Tour of the Boosra Mahin Siamese Theatre Troupe (1900)”

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published in Theatre Research International, Volume 40 / Issue 02 / July 2015, pp 140-155 “Bangkok, Singapore, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, St Petersburg – some thirty performers of the Boosra Mahin Siamese Theatrical Troupe toured the world in 1900. Daily newspapers enthusiastically reported on the unprecedented shows of the performers ‘from the land of the white…… Continue reading New Paper out: “Re-routing the World Tour of the Boosra Mahin Siamese Theatre Troupe (1900)”

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Cultural Brokers: Interdisciplinary & International Symposium

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This symposium, curated by Nic Leonhardt, Theatre Studies, LMU Munich, aims at providing a forum for scholars from theatre and performance studies, American studies, history of law and economy from Europe, the U.S., and Australia for reconsidering the under-researched field of the new profession of cultural/ artistic brokers between 1850-1930, their practices, impact, and nomenclature.…… Continue reading Cultural Brokers: Interdisciplinary & International Symposium