caa a22 4500 388058153 CHVBK 20180307125112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0040557400010164 doi S0040557400010164 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0040557400010164 Audiences and Programs: Rare Illustrated Programs from the Théâtre Libre, the Théâtre d'Art, and the Théâtre L'oeuvre [Elektronische Daten] Theatre historians have given surprisingly little attention to theatre playbills and programs as documents of material culture. The modern theatre "magazine” program especially, which began to develop in the 1860s, offers more than primary documents for dates, performers, and scenic artists, visual evidence of a performance, or the dramaturg's notes. For the cultural historian, these are open books, symbolically. Programs of the late twentieth century, packed as they are with advertisements, news of the theatre, photo montages, and litanies of benefactors and "friends,” document that larger performance of which the staged event is but a part, the performance of the imagined community to which, and from which the theatrical event ostensibly speaks. Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1998 Theatre Survey Cambridge University Press 39/2(1998-11), 99-102 0040-5574 39:2<99 1998 39 TSY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557400010164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040557400010164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Survey Cambridge University Press 39/2(1998-11), 99-102 0040-5574 39:2<99 1998 39 TSY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge