Cheney, Sheldon (Warren)

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 494 words | Copyright

Cheney, Sheldon [Warren] (1886–1980), author. Born in Berkeley, California, he studied at the University of California and with Professor George Pierce Baker at Harvard before founding Theatre Arts magazine in 1916, where he remained as editor until 1921. Among his books were The New Movement in the Theatre (1914), The Art Theatre (1917), The Open‐Air Theatre (1918), Stage Decoration (1927), and The Theatre—Three Thousand Years of Drama, Acting and Stagecraft (1929).

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