The Most American Thing in New York City: The Historiography of the National Theater of the United States of America

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2010 English Publisher:MIT Press - JournalsJournal:TDR/The Drama Review, volume 54, pages 155-174 (issn: 1054-2043, eissn: 1531-4715,

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Authors: Jessica Del Vecchio;

doi: 10.1162/dram_a_00030

The Most American Thing in New York City: The Historiography of the National Theater of the United States of America

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New York City-based NTUSA uses a census-based creation process to develop vaudevillian spectacles that investigate the construction of local and national histories. Their performances expose tensions between art as a commercial enterprise and a community-building effort, testing the boundary between esoteric avantgarde and purely entertaining, popular performance.

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