04074nam 2200649Ia 450 991105292360332120251117005109.0978661246887297815593634629781282468870128246887197815593661821559366184(CKB)2670000000029912(EBL)478874(OCoLC)708327238(SSID)ssj0000431846(PQKBManifestationID)11282425(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431846(PQKBWorkID)10476800(PQKB)11363885(OCoLC)646831348(Perlego)729838(MiAaPQ)EBC478874(EXLCZ)99267000000002991220110719d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe 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'Quinn1st ed.New York Theatre Communications Group20091 online resource (641 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781559363464 1559363460 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ScreenplayDon'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 PoliticsIs 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 IllogicDriving 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; IndexEssential reading for theater professionals and theatergoers alike. With over 150 contributors!TheaterUnited StatesHistory20th centuryTheaterUnited StatesHistory21st centuryTheaterHistoryTheaterHistory792.0973/0904Vogel Paula1888970MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911052923603321The American theatre reader4528876UNINA