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poster:  "Moscow Theatre Festival  September 1-10 1935"

          

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an 1893 cartoon      see full size 

          

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an animation background      see full size

          

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a Rene Georges Hermann-Paul woodcut

          

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Fritz Hass,  1908      see full size

          

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an 1800s opinion of sinful theater actors:  "The greater proportion,  particularly the comic department,  are positively miserable.  How could you expect a man who is,  night after night,  impersonating a miser,  a libertine,  a knave, or a murderer,  to remain content,  or pure,  or honest?"

          

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open-air theater at the 1964 New York World's Fair

          

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a Maurice Vellekoop illustration

          

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"MACBETH"  a John Gilbert illustration,  1858

          

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an Alice & Martin Provensen illustration,  1968

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an Al Herschfeld caricature of Bette Davis in stage costume,  1952

          

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a 1946 showgirl

          

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backstage after the performance by Thomas Theodor Heine 1901 

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a back-stage view of stormy seas in 1843

          

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a Ruodi Barth 1940s stage design

          

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"Spalding & Rogers' Floating Palace",  an 1852 moveable theater

with over a hundred gas lights, and steam heating      see full size

          

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a David Klein 1958 poster for TWA airline showing the Hollywood amphitheater
                             

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a Ronald Searle sketch

          

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"The stage hero is a very powerful man"      see full size
 a J. Bernard Partridge illustration,  1890

          

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While a 1772 man wearing a mask of live bees trick-rides a horse,

he makes the bees fly and return by firing his pistol 

          

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an example of dark 1970s alternative humor by Frank Springer for National Lampoon Magazine 
"Bravest Dog in the World" 

          

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a Robert Williams 1992 painting of Oscar Wilde's historic appearance

in 1882 Leadville Colorado:  things went badly but Wilde was

such a fun sport,  the town soon loved him      see full size

          

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from an 1848 French news publication,  an accident at the theater      see full size

          

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a Don Freeman illustration

          

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a Kuniyoshi print      see full size

          

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the political theater by Frans Masereel

          

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a Diane Arbus photograph of a 1971 street theater performance

          

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Marvin Friedman's illustration of an exotic dance      see full size

          

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a Gus Bofa illustration of low theater in a tavern

          

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a Wilhelm M. Busch illustration