Add to ORKGIn the 1880s and 1890s small towns all over the country began erecting opera houses to hold performances put on by traveling troupes and local talent. The Warren Opera House in Friend, Nebraska, and the Columbian Opera House in Fairfield, Nebraska, facilitated the development of the arts culture in these small towns. The Best Show in Town: A Study of Friend, Nebraska and Fairfield, Nebraska Opera Houses looks at the towns before the opera houses, follows them as they acquired and built the opera houses, highlights a number of performances, investigates how the houses gained an audience, tracks the development of local arts and society, and gives reasons for the eventual demise of the opera house. Around the turn of the century, the opera ho...
Includes bibliographical references.The purpose of this historical study is to examine the Theatre o...
In 1888, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent praised Denver, Colorado, as “a metropolis, a center of ref...
Beginning in the mid 19th Century, intercontinental railroad service made it possible for theatrical...
In the 1880s and 1890s small towns all over the country began erecting opera houses to hold performa...
As the last frontier approached an end, nearly every town of any distinction on the Plains boasted a...
During the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontie...
Americans in the years immediately preceding the twentieth century clung to a naivete reminiscent of...
This study expands the body of knowledge of nineteenth-century American theatre, specifically, provi...
Post-War of 1812 New York City was hardly prime territory for a musically elaborate, European theatr...
THE CULTURAL LIFE OF DAVID CITY: 1874-1887. The historic prologue to the establishment of an opera h...
This study traces the creation of theatrical structures and producing organizations in Lancaster, Pe...
It is the purpose of this study to provide a written history of legitimate theatre in St. Joseph, Mi...
The cultural development of any community is an important part of a larger social history which has ...
Through this project I sought to examine early opera as well as opera in America today and educate t...
Kentucky emerged as a prime site for theatrical activity in the early nineteenth century. Most towns...
Includes bibliographical references.The purpose of this historical study is to examine the Theatre o...
In 1888, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent praised Denver, Colorado, as “a metropolis, a center of ref...
Beginning in the mid 19th Century, intercontinental railroad service made it possible for theatrical...
In the 1880s and 1890s small towns all over the country began erecting opera houses to hold performa...
As the last frontier approached an end, nearly every town of any distinction on the Plains boasted a...
During the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontie...
Americans in the years immediately preceding the twentieth century clung to a naivete reminiscent of...
This study expands the body of knowledge of nineteenth-century American theatre, specifically, provi...
Post-War of 1812 New York City was hardly prime territory for a musically elaborate, European theatr...
THE CULTURAL LIFE OF DAVID CITY: 1874-1887. The historic prologue to the establishment of an opera h...
This study traces the creation of theatrical structures and producing organizations in Lancaster, Pe...
It is the purpose of this study to provide a written history of legitimate theatre in St. Joseph, Mi...
The cultural development of any community is an important part of a larger social history which has ...
Through this project I sought to examine early opera as well as opera in America today and educate t...
Kentucky emerged as a prime site for theatrical activity in the early nineteenth century. Most towns...
Includes bibliographical references.The purpose of this historical study is to examine the Theatre o...
In 1888, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent praised Denver, Colorado, as “a metropolis, a center of ref...
Beginning in the mid 19th Century, intercontinental railroad service made it possible for theatrical...