Research Catalog

Title

The play that changed my life : America's foremost playwrights on the plays that influenced them / edited by Ben Hodges ; introduction by Paula Vogel.

Publication

New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books : American Theatre Wing, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hodges, Ben (Benjamin A.)
• Vogel, Paula
• American Theatre Wing.

Description

xxi, 173 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This book offers a peek into the theatrical influences of some of the nation's 20th century dramatists. The book is filled with tributes, memories, anecdotes and other insights that connect past to present.

Alternative Title

American Theatre Wing presents

Subjects

• Dramatists, American
• Drama > Technique
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Playwriting
• Biographies
• Authorship
• 1900-1999
• Drama > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Authors, American > Books and reading
• Authors, American > 20th century > Books and reading
• Dramatists, American > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

David Auburn : Little Rock -- Jon Robin Baitz : on reading and seeing plays -- Nilo Cruz : distilled to its essence -- Christopher Durang : the incipient existentialist and the Broadway musical -- Horton Foote : Pasadena and beyond, the New York theatre -- Charles Fuller : memories -- A.R. Gurney : back in Buffalo -- Beth Henley : plays that changed my life -- Tina Howe : "tiens, il est neuf heures" -- David Henry Hwang : two plays, two lives -- David Ives : indelicately unbalanced -- Donald Margulies : a playwright's search for the spiritual father -- Lynn Nottage : succotash on ice -- Sarah Ruhl : the Baltimore waltz and the plays of my childhood -- John Patrick Shanley : standing in the wings -- Diana Son : I will follow -- Regina Taylor : Adrienne Kennedy -- Doug Wright : Bruce and Charles.

Call Number

JFE 10-826

ISBN

• 9781557837400
• 1557837406

LCCN

2009032452

OCLC

310398817

Title

The play that changed my life : America's foremost playwrights on the plays that influenced them / edited by Ben Hodges ; introduction by Paula Vogel.

Imprint

New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books : American Theatre Wing, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Hodges, Ben (Benjamin A.), editor.

Vogel, Paula, writer of introduction.

American Theatre Wing.

Note

At head of title: American Theatre Wing presents

Research Call Number

JFE 10-826

MWER 10-2639