Angels in the American theater : patrons, patronage, and philanthropy / edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Schanke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schanke, Robert A., 1940-

Series:

Theater in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts sponsorship--United States.

Performing arts sponsorship.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Composed of sixteen essays and fifteen illustrations, Angels in the American Theater examines the significant roles that angels-financial investors and backers-have played in shaping and developing theater in the United States. Angels in the American Theater employs both a historical and a chronological format and focuses on individual patrons, foundations, and corporations.

Contents:

Introduction: "He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune" / Robert A. Schanke 1

Part 1 Individual Angels

1 Modern Cosmopolitan: Otto H. Kahn and the American Stage / Theresa M. Collins 21

2 Copper Heiresses Take the Stage: Alice and Irene Lewisohn / Melanie Blood 38

3 Wheedled, Bullied, or Cajoled: Banking on Eva Le Gallienne / Robert A. Schanke 54

4 Queen of Off Broadway: Lucille Lorcel / Alexis Greene 71

5 Patronage and Playwriting: Richard B. and Jeanne Donovan Fisher's Support of Charles Mee / Jennifer Schlueter 88

6 Everyone's an Angel / Dan Friedman 104

7 An Alternative Theater Angel: Grant Goodman / David A. Crespy 120

8 Producer, Benefactor, and Playhouse Maker: David Geffen / John R. Poole 136

9 The Art of Good Business: Peter Donnelly / Barry B. Witham 153

Part 2 Institutional Angels

10 The Founding of Theater Arts Philanthropy in America: W. McNeil Lowry and the Ford Foundation, 1957-65 / Sheila McNerney Anderson 173

11 Funding "MaMa": The MacArthur Foundation and Ellen Stewart / Bruce Kirle 190

12 A Community of Angels for Actors Theatre of Louisville / Jeffrey Ullom 208

13 Raising the Curtain: Rockefeller Support for the American Theater / Stephen D. Berwind 225

14 Funding the Theatrical Future: The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust / Jeffrey Eric Jenkins 242

15 Modern Medicis: Disney on Broadway / Kathy L. Privatt 259

16 Static in the Signal: Clear Channel Communications and Theater in the United States / Anthony J. Vickery 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index.

ISBN:

0809327473

9780809327478

OCLC:

70265600

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