Crash Course Theater: 1 season 2024

What is Theater?

Thespis, Athens, and the Origins of Greek Drama

Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle

Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes

Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody

Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca

Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater

The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama

Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater

Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play

Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen

Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte

The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare

Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days

Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson

Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines

English Theater After Shakespeare

Where Did Theater Go?

The Spanish Golden Age

Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism

Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials

Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana

Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku

All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali

China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera

England's Sentimental Theater

Why So Angry, German Theater?

The Rise of Melodrama

North America Gets a Theater...Riot

Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows

Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism

Realism Gets Even More Real

Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match

Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre

The Horrors of the Grand Guignol

Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance

Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism

Expressionist Theater

Futurism and Constructivism

Little Theater and American Avant Garde

The Harlem Renaissance

Federal Theatre and Group Theatre

Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty

Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre

Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd

Broadway, Seriously

The Birth of Off Broadway

Poor Unfortunate Theater

Into Africa and Wole Soyinka

Broadway Book Musicals