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Leone, Leonard, "Center Staging for Operas." Players
Magazine, 27: 148-149, April 1941. Lighting for
opera production in the arena.

Rosenstein, Sophie. "Seven Musts." Theatre Arts,
33:61-62, March 1949. Insists that complicated
Iighting changes not be attempted in the arena.

- Lounsbury, Warren. "Lighting the Center Stage."
Players Magazine, 31: 115, February 1955. Diagrams. Devoted solely to lighting for the arena;
Sample plot provided.

Rosse, Herman. "The Circus Theatre." Theatre Arts,
7:228-243, July 1923. "Illusion" by use of lights
and scrim.

McBride, Robert. "Commercial Center Staging in
Atlanta." Players Magazine, 26: 100-1 01, February
1950. Lighting facilities used by Don Gibson in
Atlanta.
McCleery, Albert. "The Next Step." Theatre Arts,
34:62-63, March 1949. Scrim walls in arena at
Fordham University.
McDowell, John H. "Arena Theatre Under the Stadium." Educational Theatre Journal, 2:292-295, December 1950. Lighting facilites for arena production
at Ohio State University.
Mitchell, George. "Actor-in-the-Round." New York
Times, Sec. 2, p. 2, March 28, 1948. Actor's reaction to arena production; mention of lighting.

- Mullin, Donald. "Lighting the Arena Stage." Tabs,
Vol. 23, No.2, pp. 27-35. June 1965. IIlus. Excellent; dealing specifically with arena lighting; light
plot of the Tufts Arena Theatre in Massachusetts.
"Some
Guidelines for Theatre-in-the
Round." Tabs, Vol. 24, No.3, pp. 12-17. September 1966. Check-list for arena theatre construction
including lighting requirements.
Powers, Harvey M. "The Dilemma of the Arena Theatre." Bucknell University Studies, 3:35-54, 1951.
Arena aesthetics with some mention of lighting.
Robinson, Wayne. "Drama Under the Big Top." Theatre Arts, 40:58-60, December 1956. Lighting control facilities for Playhouse in the Park in Philadelphia.

Roussel, Hubert. "Houston 'Circle'." New York
Times, Sec. 2, p. 3, February 18, 1951. Brief description of Houston's "Circle" Theatre's lighting
equipment designed by Joseph Londin.
- Rubin, Joel E. "Lighting for the Arena Theatre." In
Effrat, John. Blueprint for Summer Theatre, 1954
Supplement. John Richard Press, New York, 1954,
pp. 59-65. Lighting techniques, types of lamps,
and use of color; includes light plots.
Salisbury, Harold E. "Another Dimension: An Experiment in High School Arena Staging." Educational
Theatre Journal, 4: 134-138, May 1952. Lighting
solutions for presenting arena theatre on stage of the
proscenium theatre at the Mark Keppel High School.
Schneider, Alan. "Four in the Round; London, Paris,
Milan, Washington." Theatre Arts, 41: 7 2-7 3, April
1957. Lighting arrangements in different parts of the
world.
Skinner, Ted. "Arena Staging." Dramatics, 24-27,
October-May 1953-54. Series of articles discussing
elements of arena staging (November, lighting equipment, 12,29; December, lighting control, 11,29.)
Sorel, Felica. "Theatre for the Dance." Theatre Arts,
15:869, October 1931. Arena lighting at The Intimate
Theatre at the Dance Center, 105 W. 56th St., New
York City.
Springer, Angus. "Minimum Essentials for Center
Stage." Players Magaz ine, 26: 1 1-1 2, October 1949.
Minimal lighting for arena staging at Southwestern
University in Texas.

Strauss, Robert. "The Arena on Broadway." Theatre
Arts, 34:50-51, October 1950. No lighting text, but
good photograph of the lighting set-up in Washington's
first theatre-in-the-round.
Treichler, Paul F. "The All-Purpose Theatre." Theatre
Arts, 36:74- 7 6, July 1952. No text; interesting
picture of the use of scrim walls in arena at Antioch
College Theatre.
Wilson, Margery. "Children's Theatre in the Round."
Educational Theatre Journal, 2: 104-1 07, May 1950.
Lighting of arena stage at the Lake Charles Junior
Theatre.
Yeaton, Kelly. "The Arena Goes Professional." Players Magazine, 27:7-9, October 1950. Criticism of
professional theatre arena lighting.

UNPUBLISHED MASTERS THESES
Loughrie, Donald. An Investigation of the Physical
Plants of Selected Arena Theatres in the U.S. M.A.
Thesis, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio, 1958. Lighting grids, instruments, plans,
and controls of sixteen arena theatres.
Rothgeb, John R. A Design for Portable Lowbudget Arena Lighting for the Educational Theatre.
M.A. Thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 1954. Complete lighting design for a theoretical installation.
Rudenshield, Harry. An Analytic Survey and an
Eclectic Synthesis of Current Practices in Arena
Theatre. M.A. Thesis, University of Nebraska, lincoln, Nebraska, 1961. Good survey of common arena
lighting techniques.

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