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Author: Marilyn Casto
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Imprint: The University Press of Kentucky
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9780813121628
ISBN 10: 0813121620
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 May 2000
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
<p> Winner of the 2000 Book Award given by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. --
Readers will enjoy an entertaining examination of the history of drama in the Bluegrass state through diverse lenses (economical, design, technological, and moral attitudes, to name just a few). -- <i>Vernacular Architecture Newsletter</i></p>
Winner of the 2000 Book Award given by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. --
"""A detailed study of theater buildings and theater life.... Views theater as a place where art, literature, architecture, technology, and values intersect."" -- Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians ""A masterful job of bringing these often long-lost places back to life."" -- Robert M. Craig ""Awarded the Overall Excellence in the Southern Books Competition."" -- ""Casto has done us good service in her array of details. A host of facts has been marshaled in a taut chronology."" -- Filson History Quarterly ""Informative and entertaining."" -- Pamela H. Simpson ""Provides insight into what people considered entertaining and what they deemed essential in the theater-going experience."" -- Kentucky Living ""Readers will enjoy an entertaining examination of the history of drama in the Bluegrass state through diverse lenses (economical, design, technological, and moral attitudes, to name just a few)."" -- Vernacular Architecture Newsletter ""This definitive work successfully traces Kentucky's theatrical heritage from the first know Transylvania student play of 1790 to the early twentieth century."" -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society ""Will appeal to anyone interested in culture as well as lovers of theater and architecture. Well researched, it is full of interesting facts and photographs that will have you look at old theater buildings with new appreciation."" -- Kentucky Monthly ""Winner of the 2000 Book Award given by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians."" --"
<p> Readers will enjoy an entertaining examination of the history of drama in the Bluegrass state through diverse lenses (economical, design, technological, and moral attitudes, to name just a few). -- Vernacular Architecture Newsletter
