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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What Is Theater?
- Season 1 Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama
- Season 1 Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
- Season 1 Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
- Season 1 Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
- Season 1 Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
- Season 1 Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
- Season 1 The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
- Season 1 Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
- Season 1 Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
- Season 1 Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
- Season 1 Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
- Season 1 The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
- Season 1 Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
- Season 1 Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
- Season 1 Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
- Season 1 English Theater After Shakespeare
- Season 1 Where Did Theater Go?
- Season 1 The Spanish Golden Age
- Season 1 Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
- Season 1 Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
- Season 1 Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
- Season 1 Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
- Season 1 All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
- Season 1 China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
- Season 1 England's Sentimental Theater
- Season 1 Why So Angry, German Theater?
- Season 1 The Rise of Melodrama
- Season 1 North America Gets a Theater...Riot
- Season 1 Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
- Season 1 Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
- Season 1 Realism Gets Even More Real
- Season 1 Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
- Season 1 Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater
- Season 1 The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
- Season 1 Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
- Season 1 Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
- Season 1 Expressionist Theater
- Season 1 Futurism and Constructivism
- Season 1 Little Theater and American Avant Garde
- Season 1 The Harlem Renaissance
- Season 1 Federal Theatre and Group Theater
- Season 1 Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty
- Season 1 Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
- Season 1 Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
- Season 1 Broadway, Seriously
- Season 1 The Birth of Off Broadway
- Season 1 Poor Unfortunate Theater
- Season 1 Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
- Season 1 Broadway Book Musicals
Crash Course Theater and Drama - Season 1 Episode 41 The Harlem Renaissance
0.00 13 minutes In the 1920s, there was a blossoming of all kinds of art made by African Americans in the New York neighborhood Harlem. Let's call it a renaissance. While all the arts were having a great run, some extremely interesting things were happening in the theater. Writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were writing plays, and black theater companies were drawing larger audiences than ever before.
