Download or read book On the Performance Front written by C. Canning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that US theatre in the 20th century embraced the theories and practices of internationalism as a way to realize a better world and as part of the strategic reform of the theatre into a national expression. Live performance, theatre internationalists argued, could represent and reflect the nation like no other endeavour.