LEADER 04074nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9911052923603321 005 20251117005109.0 010 $a9786612468872 010 $a9781559363462 010 $a9781282468870 010 $a1282468871 010 $a9781559366182 010 $a1559366184 035 $a(CKB)2670000000029912 035 $a(EBL)478874 035 $a(OCoLC)708327238 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431846 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282425 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431846 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10476800 035 $a(PQKB)11363885 035 $a(OCoLC)646831348 035 $a(Perlego)729838 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC478874 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000029912 100 $a20110719d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe American theatre reader $eessays and conversations from American theatre magazine /$fedited by the staff of American theatre magazine ; foreword by Paula Vogel ; preface by Jim O'Quinn 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cTheatre Communications Group$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (641 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781559363464 311 08$a1559363460 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aDon'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 327 $aIs 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 327 $aDriving 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 330 $aEssential reading for theater professionals and theatergoers alike. With over 150 contributors! 606 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTheater$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792.0973/0904 701 $aVogel$b Paula$01888970 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911052923603321 996 $aThe American theatre reader$94528876 997 $aUNINA