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Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521668071 |
A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.
Author | : David Savran |
Publisher | : Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1559367105 |
Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.
Author | : Christopher Innes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408134810 |
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each chapter provides: · a biographical introduction to the playwright's work; · a survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays; · a discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception; · a bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony, Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh, illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of contemporary American playwriting.
Author | : Christopher Bigsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1108419585 |
Introduces nine exciting and talented playwrights who have emerged in twenty-first century America, exploring issues of race, gender and society.
Author | : Allan Lewis |
Publisher | : New York : Crown Publishers |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathryn Ann Berney |
Publisher | : Saint James Press |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This pioneering work profiles nearly 200 U.S. playwrights, both living and deceased, and is part of St. James Press' Contemporary Literature Series. "Contemporary American Dramatists" provides invaluable critical, biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 200 of the most important American dramatists since the end of World War II.
Author | : Jackson R. Bryer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
On the evening of January 29, 1948, a new musical, 'Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!', opened at New York's New Adelphi Theatre, marking the Broadway debut of a young playwriting team, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, who were responsible for the show's book. Forty-six years later, Lawrence and Lee are reworking their most recent play, Whisper In The Mind, for a potential New York production, but the intervening decades have seen major changes in the landscape of the American theatre. Many of these changes are discussed and debated in this collection of interviews and are exemplified in the careers of the dramatists included.
Author | : Philip C. Kolin |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This work offers interviews with 27 American playwrights whose work has shaped the American stage since 1945. Organised into four periods, the collection includes conversations with a variety of playwrights whose work has contributed to Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and regional drama.
Author | : Susan Miller |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350084832 |
Based at Shepherd University, in West Virginia, the Contemporary American Theater Festival is nationally and internationally recognized as a home for playwrights and the development and production of new plays. The Festival makes it a priority to celebrate and produce playwrights with strong, distinct voices, with a core value to tell diverse stories. This anthology of work provides plays that speak to one of the most compelling virtues of artists everywhere – freedom of speech. A necessary volume of women playwrights' work, ranging from a two-time Obie Award-winning author to emerging writers just beginning their careers, it represents a group of women who vary in age, race and sexual orientation and offers an invitation to artistic leaders, scholars and students to embrace gritty, thought-provoking new dramatic work. Edited by The Festival's Producing Directors Peggy McKowen and Ed Herendeen, this anthology features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Each of the five powerful plays is followed by an informative and discursive playwright interview conducted by Sharon J. Anderson that contextualizes and develops the works within the wider context of the annual festival. The plays include: Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W Gregory Dead and Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson 20th Century Blues by Susan Miller
Author | : C. W. E. Bigsby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : 9780511324741 |
A fascinating exploration of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum), Tony Kushner (Angels in America), Emily Mann (Anulla: An Autobiography), Richard Nelson (An American Comedy), Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden), David Rabe (In the Boom Boom Room), Paula Vogel (Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief), Wendy Wasserstein (The Sisters Rosenzweig), and Lanford Wilson (Talley's Folly).