Season
- Season 1 2018-02-08
- Season 0 2018-02-02
Episode
- Episode 1: What Is Theater?
- Episode 2: Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama
- Episode 3: Tragedy Lessons from Aristotle
- Episode 4: Greek Comedy, Satyrs, and Aristophanes
- Episode 5: Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody
- Episode 6: Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
- Episode 7: Nostrils, Harmony with the Universe, and Ancient Sanskrit Theater
- Episode 8: The Death and Resurrection of Theater as...Liturgical Drama
- Episode 9: Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater
- Episode 10: Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play
- Episode 11: Just Say Noh. But Also Say Kyogen
- Episode 12: Pee Jokes, the Italian Renaissance, Commedia Dell'Arte
- Episode 13: The English Renaissance and NOT Shakespeare
- Episode 14: Straight Outta Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Early Days
- Episode 15: Shakespeare's Tragedies and an Acting Lesson
- Episode 16: Comedies, Romances, and Shakespeare's Heroines
- Episode 17: English Theater After Shakespeare
- Episode 18: Where Did Theater Go?
- Episode 19: The Spanish Golden Age
- Episode 20: Rules, Rule-Breaking, and French Neoclassicism
- Episode 21: Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials
- Episode 22: Pre-Columbian Theater, Spanish Empire, and Sor Juana
- Episode 23: Japan, Kabuki, and Bunraku
- Episode 24: All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali
- Episode 25: China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera
- Episode 26: England's Sentimental Theater
- Episode 27: Why So Angry, German Theater?
- Episode 28: The Rise of Melodrama
- Episode 29: North America Gets a Theater...Riot
- Episode 30: Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
- Episode 31: Zola, France, Realism, and Naturalism
- Episode 32: Realism Gets Even More Real
- Episode 33: Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match
- Episode 34: Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater
- Episode 35: The Horrors of the Grand Guignol
- Episode 36: Synge, Wilde, Shaw, and the Irish Renaissance
- Episode 37: Dada, Surrealism, and Symbolism
- Episode 38: Expressionist Theater
- Episode 39: Futurism and Constructivism
- Episode 40: Little Theater and American Avant Garde
- Episode 41: The Harlem Renaissance
- Episode 42: Federal Theatre and Group Theater
- Episode 43: Antonin Artaud and the Theater of Cruelty
- Episode 44: Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theater
- Episode 45: Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd
- Episode 46: Broadway, Seriously
- Episode 47: The Birth of Off Broadway
- Episode 48: Poor Unfortunate Theater
- Episode 49: Into Africa and Wole Soyinka
- Episode 50: Broadway Book Musicals
Crash Course Theater and Drama
We're back! This year Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about theater and drama. Are you in drama club? Want to know about the history of theater? Maybe learn some theater history? Have a lot of fun? This is the series for you! Over the next year, we're going to learn about the history and workings of the dramatic arts, together. It's going to be a great time, very low drama. Except it's all drama. Embrace the paradox, folks.
