The Birth of Off Broadway: Crash Course Theater #47

[@JeffinBville]

As someone who has had his share of nights walking the boards and stage managing everything from Broadway to community theater, I have nothing but praise for this episode.

[@jennieivins]

Still one of my favorite parts of Friday night! Going to be sad when this series is over.

[@ms.rstake_1211]

Mine too.

[@SaiyanHeretic]

“Shakespeare in the park? Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?”

[@RangerRuby]

I have never known so much about Theater, so thanks Crash Course! You guys are the best!

[@awizardintraining]

appreciate off Broadway. another show I did in college was Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, which did very well OB. We were the first people to do an amateur production because our director, Steve Press, was in the original cast

[@BrianHutzellMusic]

I love seeing theatre in small unconventional spaces. When I lived in Chicago, I went to plays and musicals in restaurants, basements, churches, backrooms, storefronts…and even a few very small but dedicated theaters!

[@Elfos64]

Still really hoping they cover Japanese Hero Shows for this series, small performances done in a high traffic public area (such as a mall or beach) and have stunt actors do a little fight scene, usually to promote a tokusatsu TV show.

[@Felishamois]

Crash Course General Western Music Theory (with Jacob Collier?) Crash Course "Indian Music Theory" (??) (a person who knows their stuff, not a lot of resources out there for english-speakers) Crash Course Music Theories (with Herbie Hancock?) Crash Course Written (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Adam Neely? David Hudry?) Crash Course Popular (worldwide, like really) Music History (with Rick Beato?? Hank Green?) this could happen. in the next ten years. it's doable. keep up the great work.

[@kajetansokolnicki5714]

As much as I'd LOVE to see Jacob Collier or Herbie Hancock on CrashCourse, I feel like Adam Neely or Rick Beato would be more appropriate, being not only musicians but also KZbin personalities already. And I don't think that the topic is big enough to justify more than maybe two series (Music Theory + Music History), at least for now.

[@ms.rstake_1211]

This sounds great but I really want the history of maths.

[@Felishamois]

@@ms.rstake_1211 ooh you got me at maths

[@Felishamois]

@@kajetansokolnicki5714 big? It's a fundamental artform with scientific fundamentals and scientifistic ramifications, it's as huge as it gets. You probably mean viewed as important. Yeah, you're probably right. There's not Crash Course History of Literary Movements and Styles in the books I guess is there. I still feel that it's a subject that easily and by nature warrants to be split up like this, probably like maths

[@doodlebean834]

him: lights up! me, whispering: on washington heights, up at the break of dawn

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Still in the Big Apple and learning about work off-Broadway! Love it

[@Vaati1992]

I read most of these plays for a course on African-American playwrights (from the anthology "Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today"). Oh, the memories...

[@SlowToe]

Thanks guys

[@JonBastian]

You never cease to be amazing...

[@MKPiatkowski]

I meant Ellen Stewart once when she was up in Toronto for a conference. She extended an invite to me to come to LaMama but sadly I never took her up on it. I did meet people involved in LaMama Melbourne, which she also founded. What an amazing woman.

[@QuanChiKombat]

Fantastic series

[@senoj.rednaxela]

If you wanna talk about upsetting plays, read How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. The most troubling thing I ever read..

[@miriamhodges5632]

I've been to a Shakespeare in the Park performance in New York. Fantastic. But you do have to show up early.

[@danukil7703]

Please do talk more about the Alternative Theatre in America!

[@jayviescas7703]

I almost called you on Theatre Rhinoceros then remembered it's in San Francisco. Please do a segment on West Coast Theatre movements from defunct, San Francisco Mime Troupe, to still going like Beach Blanket Babylon. PLEASE!

[@alexella9689]

Gosh I miss watching live theater... it's been too long.

[@marisp2588]

Broadway and off Broadway and I'm here waiting on the edge of my seat for the Broadway musical episode

[@janiemkelly]

I love this series! It is so helpful.

[@bookish.calirican]

Wow, i can’t believe I didn’t know about the black arts movement until watching this video! Thank you Crash Course!!

[@kevinm9191]

I live your all your vids!

[@unleashingpotential-psycho9433]

Nice video 🔥🔥🔥

[@thoughts4coffee]

I miss Mike's quips at the end of the credits like he did for the mythology series.

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

*What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ~*

[@projectmanagement2356]

Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

[@totallynotphoenixwright]

Okay, Artaud. Go home, you're in the wrong era.

[@Nikkidanst1]

YOU SAT NEXT TO LOU REED? Now that is awesome

[@ms.rstake_1211]

I'm sorry I'm late. Loved this episode too.

[@mantunes339]

wait! you can't just mention sitting next to lou reed at la mama and move on! details!!!

[@susysanchez8623]

Please make a video about history of industrial design

[@adamlovelace7572]

Sitting next to Lou Reed? Must have been a perfect day.

[@merriellegatlin2714]

Incisive social drama + dancing girls = Chicago

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@archiluis]

Awesome!

[@xerex21212]

I'm so early this is actually Crash Course History . :-D

[@Dayglodaydreams]

"Somebody Blew Up America!"

[@thatboi1275]

The Black arts movement pushes me to continue trying my best in a white driven world. I'm glad things are getting better and more workable but we are still far from equal.

[@IamMissPronounced]

Absolutely!

[@emriver11]

I watched an adaptation of the Connection and if it is anything like the play it is a s l o g to get through.

[@Caterfree10]

POSITIVE USE OF QUEER!!!! I LOVE Y’ALL!!!!!!! 💜💜💜💜💜

[@Ktigersthailandshow]

excuse me what kind of animation program do you use now could i know? i would like to use it

[@qwaqwa1960]

Who, not whom. GAW-dough...

[@payapichkah4872]

Please make a video about zoroastrianism

[@arizmack6341]

Off-Broadway isn’t has crappy as I thought?

[@vrixphillips]

yesssss theatre of the oppressed

[@cmdharris]

Amiri Baraka was not a fan of the Jews :(

[@neilcidial-masrysandagesid7796]

2:20 ~ i have the unfounded belief, that there are high iQ who make rubbish. ~ What i am hearing you suggest would be a brilliant business model for video hosting. What bothers me is sleeper videos. How to allow quality or comprehension shelf space in "the library of science degree that burns or buries all science" we readers covet "fictional foot traffic". I wanted to suggest submitting national standardized testing (@pbsds likes, yes?), being a percentile 99 math or 97 comp, or higher, or 96 A, me 93 read or maybe college 90th percentile or higher, getting storage if video contains math or etymology or critical thinking. Elective low price archiving, and "intellectual royalty residual rights" instead "intellectual property" buy sell trade = inventor gets nothing the next day.

[@neilcidial-masrysandagesid7796]

4:15 ~ excited. Not Excited. Still Excited. ~ Who is that handsome Phil DeFranco Bastard? (We can't all like our dads. Tho some are told via Darpa God and grounds, better start groveling daddy.)

[@ductuslupus87]

Does anyone else think this series is dragging on a bit?

[@fionafiona1146]

It's nearly at contemporary level, that usually dreggs, especially when it is splitting up different branches that occur simultaneously. Its worth it.

[@pandaicebear8601]

Am I early?

[@tomdarco2223]

1

[@theocloffod-suede5354]

3rd

[@inum400]

First

[@kevinm9191]

Nah.

[@inum400]

@@kevinm9191 jah.

[@aperson22222]

"Supportive of queer writers"? The hell? That was rude. And surprising.

[@markj48]

In the late '80s gays decided to reclaim the word 'Queer' from the homophobes.

[@inarationalvein]

I know a lot of people who identify as 'queer', because it identifies them as non-heterosexual/cisgender without forcing them to pin down an exact term for their sexual/romantic orientations and gender identity. As the LGBT+ umbrella expands to include more and more diverse identities, 'queer' has become a more inclusive term of choice for many people.

[@alexella9689]

I identify as queer... though I understand my people of older generations would struggle with that more. I have never had that word used against me as a slur (that I know of)

[@that1geekychick]

Gay also started out as a slur (in terms of referring to homosexuality), and it still gets used as a slur to this day. I've literally never heard queer in a derogatory sense in the wild...just by the queer community and in academic contexts, as it was used in this video. I for one will stop using queer as soon as folks stop shooting down every single umbrella term that gets proposed as an alternative on the grounds that they don't center binary cis people.

[@theunskilledranter6831]

Damn, this channel is super dead

[@Felishamois]

how so

[@theunskilledranter6831]

@@Felishamois this has 10k views

[@Felishamois]

@@theunskilledranter6831 It's always been like that, I guess they hit a "niche" part of this nichey subject. History of Science has usually got 3, 4, 5 times the number of views than its other contemportary subjects (except for the last two??). Fact-checking did slightly better to start with, but these first few episodes have predictably been particularly yawn-inducing and repetitive. Engineering, Theater, and Statistics are nichey apparently. Statistics was doing much worse in number of views on launch. .... still, heh, 10 thousand people is a heck of an amphitheatre The Polymer Explosion: Crash Course Engineering #20 43K views 4 months ago Regression: Crash Course Statistics #32 49K views 4 months ago The Philosopher's Corpse: Crash Course Recess #2 60K views 4 months ago Darwin and Natural Selection: Crash Course History of Science #22 120K views 4 months ago Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism: Crash Course Theater #31 38K views 4 months ago

[@theunskilledranter6831]

@@Felishamois The last video to hit 1 million views was "the epic Gilgamesh", over a year ago. None of their other videos were able to hit above 750k views after the Gilgamesh video.

[@Felishamois]

​@@theunskilledranter6831 Don't the videos just accrue more views as time goes on? Did Gilgamesh balloon during its first few months? Also pretty sure it all comes down to the percieved sexiness and/or direct usefulness of the subject matter, there hasn't been a crowd-pleaser like Gilgamesh and Early Computing in a while apparently (maybe Biology Before Darwin) It looks like these last few subjects have been great and important but just not sexy enough to be clicked on as an impulse by any joe (both these cases' vids are right next to each other) -sexiness sociology : Global Stratification & Poverty: Crash Course Sociology #27 87K views1 year ago mythology : Rama and the Ramayana: Crash Course World Mythology #27 699K views1 year ago -and direct utility film : Dissecting The Camera: Crash Course Film Production #4 93K views1 year ago exam cramming : Studying for Exams: Crash Course Study Skills #7 416K views1 year ago -- also right next to each other : Early Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #1 1.3M views1 year ago Optical Instruments: Crash Course Physics #41 159K views [two videos away from] 2 years ago Crash Course Computer Science Preview 1.3M views1 year ago What Is A Good Life?: Crash Course Philosophy #46 583K views1 year ago and philosophy's always been sexy : Assisted Death & The Value of Life: Crash Course Philosophy #45 513K views2 years ago What Is Justice?: Crash Course Philosophy #40 654K views2 years ago compared to : The Future of Gaming: Crash Course Games #29 127K views2 years ago

[@stormelemental13]

Congratulations, you made the Black Art movement seem both boring and repulsive.

[@chrysalizubeth88]

Eric Taysom Disagree. I was interested and curious to look up more.

[@IamMissPronounced]

I disagree too. This got me interested and looking deeper into the history of it

[@inspireandmotivatealways998]

Nice video 👏