Little Theatre Movement

"Little theatre" redirects here. For theaters named "Little Theatre", see Little Theatre.

As the new medium of cinema was beginning to replace theater as a source of large-scale spectacle, the Little Theatre Movement developed in the United States around 1912. The Little Theatre Movement served to provide experimental centers for the dramatic arts, free from the standard production mechanisms used in prominent commercial theaters.[1] In several large cities, beginning with Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Detroit, companies formed to produce more intimate, non-commercial, non-profit-centered,[2] and reform-minded entertainments.[3]

  1. ^ "Little theatre | American theatrical movement". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  2. ^ "University of Delaware Library: Playwrights, Production, and Performance: American Theater in the 20th Century > Section 10". www.lib.udel.edu. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Bryer 1982, p. 9.