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In the News (Mon 7 Jul 08)

  
  Drama
Drama editor Rhonda Cluff gives her impression of a 1999 remake of the 1925 movie based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World.
Immortal Beloved is an intelligent drama that retells the tragic romantic life of Ludwig von Beethoven.
This review looks at how the structure of the coming-of-age drama compares with the storytelling guidelines espoused by some independent filmmakers.
www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/drama   (358 words)

  
  Drama - Encyclopedia Dramatica
drama was considered a genre of literature intended for the theatre.
Drama results when matters are made into a bigger deal than need be, and it is used to draw and keep much-wanted attention.
Drama is often started by the Angel of Death.
www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Drama   (175 words)

  
 Drama and Dramatic Arts - MSN Encarta
Although works of drama, called plays, are also often read in this manner, they are created primarily to be presented in public by a group of performers, each of whom pretends to be one of the characters in the story the play is telling.
However, almost all dramas use all of these elements to some extent, telling a story by means of the interactions of characters, who express their thoughts through language within a particular visual setting.
This is the case in the poetic dramas of English romantic authors of the early 19th century and in much of what is called high comedy or comedy of manners, which dates back to the 17th century in England.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552006/Drama_and_Dramatic_Arts.html   (1449 words)

  
 Drama
Drama as an art form is a far-reaching discipline providing a humanistic approach to today's societal problems and issues.
Students earning the Bachelor of Arts in drama are prepared to seek employment in the theatre industry, apply for advanced degrees in a specific area of theatre (e.g., MFA in acting or design) or transfer the skills gained through the program to broader career opportunities.
Drama students are also encouraged to apply for undergraduate research, leadership and/or fellowship grants available through the Mary Gates Endowment.
www.washington.edu /students/gencat/academic/drama.html   (3069 words)

  
 Drama
This syllabus is designed for students to experience, understand, enjoy and value drama as a social, collaborative and creative art form and as an expression of culture through making, performing and critically studying drama and theatre.
drama and the theatre as a community activity, a profession and an industry.
The syllabus and other supporting material for Drama 11-12 are available from the Board of Studies.
www.schools.nsw.edu.au /learning/yr11_12/arts/drama/index.php   (208 words)

  
 Stanford Drama
Stanford Drama produces a full season of theater during the Stanford academic year, in a variety of performance spaces.
Stanford Drama is proud of its place in the theatrical education community, producing both theatre professionals and world-class theorists and educators.
Read the Department of Drama's official blog to get a feel for the program from the perspective of one of our students.
www.stanford.edu /dept/drama   (126 words)

  
 Drama @ Theatre Theory
Merriam-Webster: movies of the drama genre are a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue.
The themes of drama arise from life problems and interpersonal relationships, especially those of marriage and family.
Drama (and dramatic) is the heart of the matter: no drama = no theatre.
afronord.tripod.com /thr/drama.html   (3451 words)

  
 DRAMA
Survey of the rise of theatre from the early liturgical drama through the High Middle Ages to the Reformation and the great flowering of secular drama in Elizabethan England and the Golden Age of Spain.
Survey of the drama, theatre, and theatre culture from the French Revolution into the beginnings of Modernism; social and political aspects of theatre, rise of Romanticism, melodrama, and variety entertainment through the 19th century to the artistic revolution that paved the way for modern theatre.
DRAMA 494 Special Studies in Theatre and Drama (5, max.
www.washington.edu /students/crscat/drama.html   (2914 words)

  
 American Drama
We are including the index of the back issues of the journal, and we are also planning to include interviews and essays and items published as part of the PLAYWRIGHT'S FORUM section of the journal.
We are of course hoping to lure you to subscribe to American Drama and to ask your University or local public library to subscribe.
Let me know of other aspects of the lively world of American drama that you would like to see highlighted on our websites.
www.uc.edu /americandrama   (220 words)

  
 Drama Films
Courtroom legal dramas, which include dramatic tension in the courtroom setting, maneuverings between trial opponents (lawyers, prosecutors, and clients), surprise witnesses, and the psychological breakdown of key participants, were exemplified in films such as the following:
Jonathan Demme's AIDS drama, Philadelphia (1993) examined discrimination against AIDS and the legal defense of an AIDS sufferer (Tom Hanks) who was fired.
Conversely, the award-winning, potent story of a corrupt politician was dramatized in Robert Rossen's All the King's Men (1949) with Broderick Crawford as the rising politician.
www.filmsite.org /dramafilms.html   (1703 words)

  
 HBO: Drama - Character Bio - Entourage
You may know Johnny "Drama" Chase from his appearances on such programs as Melrose Place, Viking Quest and Pacific Blue.
Always looking to get "back in the game", Drama is happy to audition for just about any role.
An avid cook, Drama also manages to find time to work on his golf game whenever possible.
www.hbo.com /entourage/cast/character/drama.html   (119 words)

  
 Drama (The University of Manchester)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Manchester has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research into Performance, Applied Theatre and Screen Studies.We have some of the country's leading researchers and practitioners of drama who publish regularly and seek to promote a research culture at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
We have some of the country's leading researchers and practitioners of drama who publish regularly and seek to promote a research culture at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Manchester's Drama Subject Area has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research into Performance, Applied Theatre and Screen Studies.
www.arts.manchester.ac.uk /subjectareas/drama   (232 words)

  
 drama - TV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From executive producer Peter Ocko comes a new medical drama about two elite neurosurgeons who have different takes on how to treat their patients.
One of the most innovative, thrilling and acclaimed drama series on television, 24, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, will retain its unique and pioneering format in the sixth season.
Blending drama and dry humour, the series follows Nicky as...
www.tv.com /index.php?type=42&action=get_items_for_tag&qs=drama   (668 words)

  
 Posts from the Drama Category at TV Squad
About two years ago, I set out to list the hottest women on TV who are over 40, over 50, and over 60.
Just before the strike announcement, NBC made a deal for a new drama titled Kings, which is described as "a contemporary soap loosely based on the story of King David, the Biblical king of Israel." There's really something funny about that description.
As if we didn't already have some incredible things to giveaway here already, here's one that just passed over the TV Squad desk late last night, and it couldn't possibly wait until next week.
www.tvsquad.com /category/drama   (2535 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - Arts and Drama Homepage
James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to leading authors about their best known novels..
BBC Radio Drama is looking for talented writers.
There's drama ranging from the experimental to the Classics.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/arts   (0 words)

  
 Tempcity (tm) Drama NYC (tm) Temp Agency New York City NYC Temp Agencies NY Temporary Employment Agency (Powered by ...
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www.possellc.com /dramanyc   (1301 words)

  
 drama - Definitions from Dictionary.com
A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play: the drama of the prisoner's escape and recapture.
The quality or condition of being dramatic: a summit meeting full of drama.
drama (gen. dramatos) "play, action, deed," from dran "to do, act, perform." Dramatic "appropriate to drama" is from 1725.
dictionary.reference.com /browse/drama   (325 words)

  
 Curricular Resources in Drama and Theatre
Here are a number of links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to Drama and Theatre.
A huge meta-list of links to Arts resources with a search engine that can focus on specific types of art, for example their drama database.
Or, click here if you wish to return directly to the CLN menu which will give you access to educational resources in all of our subjects.
www.cln.org /subjects/drama_cur.html   (328 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Drama - DVD: By Theme, By Genre, Love & Romance, Family Life, Television, Classics, Boxed Sets & More   (Site not responding. Last check: )
You'll be riveted by our selection of top-selling drama DVDs, including The Notebook and The Shawshank Redemption.
For an intriguing setting of Christ's birth as a flesh-and-blood drama actually set in Israel two millenia ago, watch The Nativity Story.
Choose from comedy; drama; thrills and chills; foreign-language; documentaries and TV, and more.
www.amazon.com /Drama-DVD/b?ie=UTF8&node=163379   (544 words)

  
 English Verse Drama, 1300-1900. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
The bibliographic basis of English Verse Drama is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, CUP 1969-72 (NCBEL).
The database aims to encompass the complete published corpus of verse dramas of writers listed in NCBEL who were active before 1900.
A verse drama is generally defined as a work acted on or intended for the stage which is either wholly in verse or includes significant verse content.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /evd.html   (524 words)

  
 ProTeacher! Drama lesson plans for elementary school teachers in grades K-6 including theatre, fingerplays activities, ...
Drama lesson plans for elementary school teachers in grades K-6 including theatre, fingerplays activities, programs and thematic units, Storytelling and acting skills curriculum, classroom and teaching ideas
Drama Club Heres some things you might think about: Parent permission slips with emergency contact information, and specifying whether or not the child will be picked up or walk home after meetings.
Drama Workshop: Ideas For Teaching Drama - A collection of thematic teaching ideas: animals, Christmas, communication, machines, space, story work, the sea, and others
www.proteacher.com /080010.shtml   (692 words)

  
 NPR LAUNCHES UNPRECEDENTED RADIO DRAMA
This exciting new series will consist of 26 hour-long programs showcasing a collection of speculative fiction that look beyond the present to the social and technological possibilities of the new millennium.
The scale of this project has been compared to a large-scale movie production, as there has seldom been a radio drama series with so many episodes and actors.
Each of the 26 episodes is hosted by the award winning author, Harlan Ellison and are based on works by well-known writers, such as Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, and Jack London.
www.npr.org /about/press/000323.drama.html   (389 words)

  
 Definition of drama - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Etymology: Late Latin dramat-, drama, from Greek, deed, drama, from dran to do, act
3 a : a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces b : dramatic state, effect, or quality drama of the courtroom proceedings>
Learn more about "drama" and related topics at Britannica.com
www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=drama   (129 words)

  
 Alabama State Outdoor Musical Drama: Incident at Looney's Tavern
The Incident at Looney's Tavern is a historically factual musical drama staged in a 1500-seat amphitheatre in Winston County.
The drama is the unique story of Christopher Sheats, a young Winston County Alabama school teacher, thrown into American history's most turbulent era, the Civil War.
It is the true saga of Alabama's hill people and their struggle against the South's secession when all around them the battle cry was secession and war.
www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-symbols/alabama/outdoor-musical-drama.html   (420 words)

  
 MEDIEVAL ENGLISH DRAMA
The Drama of the Medieval Church 2 vols.
Drama and Art: An Introduction to the Use of Evidence from the Visual Arts for the Study of Early Drama.
The Staging of Religious Drama in Europe in the Later Middle Ages: Texts and Documents in English Translation.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/playbib.htm   (1010 words)

  
 The Drama in Education Site
This website is meant to be a useful resource for both teachers and students and "jumping-off" point to interesting theatre and drama sites on the web.
If you would like to volunteer any information or resources like lesson plans, good plays to produce and direct, dates of upcoming plays, festivals and events, etc., please email me with your input and ideas.
Resources relating to extra-curricular drama and information about upcoming theatre events in the schools and in the province
www.michaelcoady.com /drama_education   (222 words)

  
 Drama
This handout identifies common questions about drama, discusses the elements of drama that are most often discussed in theater classes, provides a few strategies for planning and writing an effective paper, and identifies various resources for research in theater history and dramatic criticism.
In the context of a play in a theatre, tension often means that the audience is expecting something to happen between the characters on stage.
For instructors in academic departments, whether the classes are about theatrical literature, theater history, performance studies, acting, or technical aspects of a production, writing about drama often means finding reasons why and how the plays we watch are filled with tension and excitement.
www.unc.edu /depts/wcweb/handouts/drama.html   (1772 words)

  
 Drama movies - Coming soon - MSN Movies
Drama movies - Coming soon - MSN Movies
In this historical drama from Mexico, "Damian Delgado" plays Topilzin, a writer...
Set during a future European war, in Flanders, the local young men leave as...
movies.msn.com /movies/genre.aspx?genre=Drama   (195 words)

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