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Opening of the New Theatre
There was an attempt to bring European style theatre to New York City, but it wasn't built properly and it collapsed after two seasons
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Lamps with filament
Lamps were available with a concentrated filament of sufficiently high with wattage to permit the development of spotlights
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Electric lamps
By this time electric lamps, spotlights, color filters, and dimmers (these helped implement Appia's theories)
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Theatre Guild
Art theatre was established on a commercially stable base by New York City's theatre guild
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Edward Gordon Craig's design
He painted it on watercolor and pastel on paper. This was to depict Act III in "Hamlet" image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gordon_Craig -
Adolphe Appia died
She began with the idea that artistic unity is fundamental, but hard to achieve.
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Stock Market Crash
This had a huge impact of the nation including the theatre industry because the American population could barely afford groceries let alone to go see a theatre production.
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WPA federal theatre project
This was a project created by the US government to help unemployed actors find job security.
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Max Reinhardt died
He was a German director who reinforced Appia's and Craig's influences.
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Edward Gordan Craig died
He began his career as an actor in English Theatre. He was very open about his views even though they were controversial.
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