Drop Dead : Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York / Hillary Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Hillary, author.

Series:

Performance works.

Performance works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen seventies.

Recessions--New York (State)--New York.

Recessions.

Performing arts--Economic aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Performing arts.

Theater--Economic aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Theater.

Performing arts--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Theater--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Winner, 2017 American Theater and Drama Society John W.Frick Book Award Winner, 2017 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History Hillary Miller's Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York offers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city's financial crisis shaped theater and performance.

Contents:

Introduction: City in crisis, performance in Crisis

Planned shrinkage and the new theater : Ellen Stewart, La Mama e.t.c., and Julie Bovasso

TKTS and "lost audience" anxiety : fiscal crisis Times Square

Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps and the "inevitability of interdependency"

The theater of poverty : Everyman in Coney Island

How the public became a public : Joseph Papp's Civic Building

The Brooklyn syndrome : BAM and outer-borough arts

Conclusion. the myth of self-sufficiency.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2013.

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ISBN:

0-8101-3390-3

OCLC:

960977588