Research Catalog

Title

The American theatre reader : essays and conversations from American theatre magazine / edited by the staff of American theatre magazine ; foreword by Paula Vogel ; preface by Jim O'Quinn.

Publication

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vogel, Paula

Description

xvii, 615 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"On the occasion of American Theatre magazine's 25th anniversary, the editors have selected the best essays and interviews from its pages to provide an intimate look at the people, plays and events that have shaped the American theatre over the past quarter-century. More than 100 artists, critics and theatre professionals are gathered in this one-of-a-kind collection, from the visionaries who conceived of a diverse and thriving national theatre community to the practitioners who have made that dream a reality, The American Theatre Reader captures their wide-ranging stories in a single compelling volume, essential reading for theatre professionals and theatregoers alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

American theatre.

Subjects

• History
• Theater > United States > History > 21st century
• Theater > United States > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Purging the Citadell / W. McNeil Lowery -- How free is too free? / Eric Bentley -- Who's afraid? / Alan Schneider -- For whites only? / Douglas Turner Ward -- On repertory and audiences / Eva Le Gallienne -- Fruitful union / Tyrone Guthrie -- Theatre and its trouble / Lee Breuer -- Puppetry and politics / Peter Schumann -- Critical instinct / Julius Novick -- Becoming a playwright / Adrienne Kennedy -- Soviet diary / Harold Clurman -- What is a Shakespeare? / Peter Brook -- Missing eye / Ross Wetzsteon -- Verona, Mississippi / Robert Coe -- (R)evolution of black theatre / Paul Carter Harrison -- 50 observations on acting / Charles Ludlam -- Actor as object of desire / Don Shewey -- Scenes from a censored life / Athol Fugard -- Facing the music / Harold Prince -- Islands in the mainstream / David Henry Hwang -- Wilson, Danton and me / Richard Thomas -- Living for design : a fragment of a screenplay / Marjorie Bradley Kellogg -- Don't call the post-mod squad / Roger Copeland -- Essential Ming Cho Lee / Mel Gussow -- Ground on which I stand / August Wilson -- Subsidized separatism / Robert Brustein -- Response to Brustein / August Wilson -- Who needs artists? / Robert MacNeil -- Modest proposal / Tony Kushner -- Women's work : white gloves or bare hands? / Tina Howe -- What myths may come / Naomi Iizuka -- Immaterial theatre / W. David Hancock -- Town in a mirror / Don Shewey -- Gone West / Jon Jory -- Place at the table / James Magruder -- Where mystique meets technique / Randy Gener -- Incident at Awassa / David Schein -- Art will out / Jaan Whitehead -- Shape of plays to come / Todd Lincoln -- 36 assumptions about writing plays / Jose Rivera -- Whither (or wither) art? / Zelda Fichandler -- Girls just want to write plays Diana Son --
• On the road to Palestine / Kia Corthron, Tony Kushner, Robert O'Hara, Lisa Schlesinger, Betty Shamieh and Naomi Wallace -- Found in translation / Elsa Davis -- Follies of Chinese dissident politics / Zhang Xian -- Is your play a virgin? / Theresa Rebeck -- Lying game / Zelda Fichlander -- Chekhov : shorter, faster, funnier and uncut / Tom Donaghy -- Thinking about writing about thinking about new plays / Jeffrey M. Jones -- On directing : a modest proposal / Steven Dietz -- Getting Stanislavsky wrong / Charles Marowitz -- Awaken and sing / Steven Sater -- Thanks, but no thanks / Richard Nelson -- Writing about sex / Wallace Shawn -- Eye on the future / Joseph Haj -- Conservations -- Interview by Amy Lippman / Sam Shepard -- Interview by Marsha Norman / Lillian Hellman -- Interview by Studs Terkel / Lorraine Hansberry -- Interview by Mark Lamos / Arthur Miller -- Interview by Ross Wetzsteon / Joseph Papp -- Interview by David Savran / Luis Valdez -- Interview by Arthur Bartow / Gordon Davidson -- Interview by Anna Deavere Smith / Peter Zeisler -- Interview by Timothy Near and Krissy Keefer / Olympia Dukakis -- Interview by John Istel / Jonathan Larson -- Interview by Dale Byam / Wole Soyinka -- Interview by Bevya Rosten / Kate Valk -- Interview by David Savran / Paula Vogel -- In conversation with David J. Diamond / Anne Bogart and Kristin Linklater -- Interview by Frank Rich / Stephen Sondheim -- Interview by David Savran / Adam Guettel -- Interview by Robert Coe / John Patrick Shanley -- In conservation with David Byron / F. Murray Abraham, Olympia Dukakis, Floyd King, Marian Seldes, Fiona Shaw and Gary Sinise -- Interview by David Rooks / William S. Yellow Robe Jr. -- Interview by Suzan-Lori Parks / August Wilson -- Interview by Charles L. Mee / Will Power -- Interview by Rob Weinert-Kendt / Bill Rauch --
• In conversation with Joan Channick / Steven Chaikelson, Debbie Chinn, Criss Henderson, Melanie Joseph, Edward A. Martenson and Susan Medak -- In conversation with Sara Hart / Gina Gionfriddo, Rolin Jones and Adam Rapp.

ISBN

• 9781559363464 (alk. paper)
• 1559363460 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009009563

OCLC

• 261176545
• SCSB-12774347

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library