10 Puppeteers Who Defined the Art Form
Ten pairs of hands, from the bunraku stage to the television studio, that taught the modern world how to believe in a puppet again.
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Art brought to life before an audience. Performing Arts celebrates dance, music, theater, film, and more, honoring the artists and traditions that turn movement, sound, and story into shared experience.
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Ten performers who filled the theaters of the 1940s to 1960s with unaided voice and turned the American musical into Broadway's golden age.
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10 Circus Legends of the Big Top Century
Ten performers and showmen who turned the traveling circus, from the 1870s to the 1970s, into the greatest show on earth, one impossible feat at a time.
10 Comedians Who Defined Silent Comedy
Ten comedians who taught the movies how to be funny, from the pratfalls of the silent screen to the first wisecracks of sound.
10 Playwrights Who Defined the Modern Stage
Ten writers, from a Norwegian parlor to a Lagos courtyard, who taught the modern stage what a play could carry.
10 Directors Who Defined World Cinema
Ten directors who, between the 1940s and the 1980s, made cinema a language the whole world could speak.
10 Actresses Who Defined Hollywood’s Golden Age
Ten women who ruled the screen from the 1930s to the 1950s, turning the studio system's manufactured glamour into an art form, and sometimes into power.