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The play that changed my life : America's foremost playwrights on the plays that influenced them / edited by Ben Hodges ; introduction by Paula Vogel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Dramatists, American.
- Authors, American.
- Books and reading.
- Authors, American--20th century--Books and reading.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Playwriting.
- Authorship.
- Drama--Technique.
- Drama.
- Drama--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- At head of title: American Theatre Wing presents
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books : American Theatre Wing, 2009.
- Summary:
- What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen gifted playwrights respond in this revealing and personal book about their experiences with the transformative power of theatre. Contributors include David Auburn, Jon Robin Baitz, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Horton Foote, Charles Fuller, A R. Gurney, Beth Henley, Tina Howe, David Henry Hwang, David Ives, Donald Margulies, Lynn Nottage, Susan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, John Patrick Stanley, Diana Son, Regina Taylor, and Doug Wright.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781557837400
- 1557837406
- OCLC:
- 310398817
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