Richard Barr [electronic resource] : the playwright's producer / David A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crespy, David Allison.

Series:

Theater in the Americas.

Theater in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theatrical producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Theatrical producers and directors.

Barr, Richard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Richard Barr: The Playwright's Producer, author David A. Crespy investigates the career of one of the theatre's most vivid luminaries, from his work on the film and radio productions of Orson Welles to his triumphant-and final-production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Explored in detail along the way are the producer's relationship with playwright Edward Albee, whose major plays such as A Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Barr was the first to produce, and his innovative productions of controversial works by playwrights like Samuel Becket

Contents:

Introduction: "you have to hock your house: the story of a producer"

Privilege with a price: Washington, Princeton, and early theatre efforts

Playing with martians: stage and screen with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre

A theatrical warrior: Lieutenant Richard Barr

Learning the director's craft: stock, Broadway, and City Center

Broadway beginnings: Ethyl Waters, Ruth Draper, and theatrical collage

The zoo story: discovering Edward Albee

Producers at work: on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway

Experimenting with Edward Malcolm to all over

Hocking the house: Seascape to Sweeney Todd

Brightening Broadway's lights: Barr's legacy to the American theatre

Afterword / Edward Albee.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-39483-3

0-8093-3141-1

OCLC:

835981087