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The Best plays of 1951-1952 and the Year Book of the Drama in America / edited by John Chapman. With illustrations.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 A100 952b
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--20th century.
- Drama.
- Theater--United States.
- Theater.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 387 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Best plays of 1951-1952
- Year book of the drama in America
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Toronto : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1952.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The season in New York
- The season in Boston
- The season in Philadelphia
- The season in Chicago
- The season in San Francisco
- The season in Southern California
- Mrs. McThing, by Mary Chase
- The Shrike, by Joseph Kramm
- I am a Camera, by John Van Druten
- The Fourposter, by Jan de Hartog
- Point of no return, by Paul Osborn
- Barefoot in Athens, by Maxwell Anderson
- Venus Observed, by Christopher Fry
- Jane, by S. N. Behrman
- Gigi, by Anita Loos
- Remains to be Seen, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
- The plays and their authors
- Plays produced in New York
- The dance
- Off Broadway
- Statistical summary
- Long runs on Broadway
- New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
- Pulitzer Prize winners
- Previous volumes of Best Plays
- Where and when they were born
- Necrology
- The decades' toll.
- Notes:
- "One way or another ... the stage persists. It is alive, and this book is a report on its present state of health."--Introduction.
- Includes indexes.
- Black cloth boards with white paper labels lettered and ruled in blue on front cover and spine.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 15542170
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