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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vogel, Paula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States--History--20th century.

Theater.

Theater--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (641 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essential reading for theater professionals and theatergoers alike. With over 150 contributors!

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Foreword; The Essays; Purging the Citadel; How Free is Too Free?; Who's Afraid?; For Whites Only?; On Repertory and Audiences; A Fruitful Union; The Theatre and its Trouble; Puppetry and Politics; The Critical Instinct; Becoming a Playwright; The Soviet Diary; What is a Shakespeare?; The Missing Eye; Verona, Mississippi; The (R)evolution of Black Theatre; 50 Observations on Acting; The Actor as Object of Desire; Scenes from a Censored Life; Facing the Music; Islands in the Mainstream; Wilson, Danton and Me; Living for Design: A Fragment of a Screenplay

Don't Call the Post-Mod SquadThe Essential Ming Cho Lee; The Ground on Which I Stand; Subsidized Separatism; A Response to Brustein; Who Needs Artists?; A Modest Proposal; Whomen's Work: White Gloves or Bare Hands?; What Myths May Come; The Immaterial Theatre; Thown in a Mirror; Gone West; A Place at the Table; Where Mystique Meets Technique; Incident at Awassa; Art Will Out; The Shape of Plays to Come; 36 Assumptions About Writing Plays; Whither (or Wither) Art?; Girls Just Want to Write Plays; On the Road to Palestine; Founds in Translation; The Follies of Chinese Dissident Politics

Is Your Play a Virgin?The Lying Game; Chekhov: Shorter, Faster, Funnier and Uncut; Thinking About Writing About Thinking About New Plays; On Directing: A Modest Proposal; Getting Stanislavsky Wrong; Awaken and Sing; Thanks, but No Thanks; Writing About Sex; An Eye on the Future; The Conversations; Rhythm and Truths; Articles of Faith; Make New Sounds; An Afternoon with Arthur Miller; Joseph Papp Gets Big Ideas; Border Tactics; Controversy and Gordon Davidson; A Conversation with Peter Zeisler; Earth Mom; I Have Something to Say; Art, Exile and Reistance; The Gesture of Illogic

Driving Ms. VogelA Critics' Summit; Balancing Acts; Side by Side by Side; Adam Guettel Faces the Music; The Evolution of John Patrick Shanley; How Does Your Garden Grow?; The Real Thing; The Light in August; Hio-Hop Visions of an Ancient World; Bill Rauch's Oregon Trail; The Management Puzzle; Looking Both Ways; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612468872

9781559363462

9781282468870

1282468871

9781559366182

1559366184

OCLC:

708327238