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The American stage: writing on theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner
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Library of America
Publication Date
c2010
Language
English
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From Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. / Washington Irving
Prologue for the Opening of the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia / Charles Sprague
from History of the American Theatre / William Dunlap
from Domestic Manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope
Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples / Alexis de Tocqueville
On Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion / Edgar Allan Poe
The Gladiator-Mr. Forrest-Acting ; Miserable State of the Stage ; The Old Bowery / Walt Whitman
The Astor Place Riot / Philip Hone
from Mimic Life; or, Before and Behind the Curtain / Anna Cora Mowatt
The Menken ; The Model Artists ; The Minstrel Show / Mark Twain
from The Journals / Charles King Newcomb
About Nudity in Theatres / Olive Logan
from The Genial Showman: The Church in the Theatre and the Theatre in the Church / Edward P. Hingston
Notes on the Theatres ; from A Small Boy and Others / Henry James
Clara Morris / Alan Dale
The Art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet / William Winter
Uncle Tom's Cabin ; Antony and Cleopatra (1) ; Antony and Cleopatra (2) / Willa Cather
from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Theatres, Actors and Audience / Hutchins Hapgood
Melodrama / Rollin Lynde Hartt
My Most Successful Play / Lottie Blair Parker
Stage Struck / Channing Pollock
Some American Dramatic Material ; Hamlet / Stark Young
"The Illusion of the First Time" in Drama / William Gillette
Mr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage / Ezra Pound
Mrs. Fiske on Ibsen the Popular / Alexander Woollcott
Frank Wedekind / James G. Huneker
The Painter and the Stage / Lee Simonson
Mimi Aguglia as Salome / Carl Van Vechten
The Jest / Dorothy Parker
Mr. Belasco Explains ; Susan Glaspell / Ludwig Lewisohn
Abie's Irish Rose Review and Bulletins / Robert Benchley
I Gaspiri-"The Upholsterers": A Drama in Three Acts / Ring Lardner
The Dæmonic in the American Theatre / Gilbert Seldes
Burlesque Shows / Edmund Wilson
The Negro and the American Stage / Alain Locke
the old trouper / Don Marquis
The Audience Emotion ; On Vaudeville ; Eugene O"Neill / George Jean Nathan
The Days of Jig Cook ; Alla Nazimova / Djuna Barnes
James A. and Katharine Herne / Hamlin Garland
Cain's Warehouse / Sidney Skolsky
Trouble with the Angels / Langston Hughes
from Of Time and the River / Thomas Wolfe
Waiting for Santy / S. J. Perelman
Our Town ; Standards in Drama Criticism / Brooks Atkinson
The Man Who Came to Dinner with George Kaufman Directing / Morton Eustis
from Arena / Hallie Flanagan
Some Thoughts on Playwriting / Thornton Wilder
Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea / Elia Kazan
A Streetcar Called Success / Mary McCarthy
Tennessee Williams ; The Famous "Method" ; from The Theatre of the Thirties / Harold Clurman
Even as You and I / John Mason Brown
Terry Helburn / Frances Parkinson Keyes
Folklore on Forty-Seventh Street ; from Bentley on Brecht / Eric Bentley
The American Theater / Arthur Miller
The Life and Death of Vaudeville / Fred Allen
Barns / Walter Kerr
Author and Director: A Delicate Situation / Tennessee Williams
Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet ; The Commercialites ; Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House / Gore Vidal
"Me tink me hear sounds in de night" / Lorraine Hansberry
Which Theater Is the Absurd One? / Edward Albee
The Becks' Living Theatre / Charles L. Mee, Jr.
Boredom in the Theatre / John Simon
El Teatro Campesino / Luis Valdéz
Marat/Sade/Artaud / Susan Sontag
A Short Statement on Street Theatre / Ed Bullins
Notes on the New Theater / Elizabeth Hardwick
from The Season / William Goldman
from Notes on a Cowardly Lion / John Lahr
from Run-Through: A Memoir / John Houseman
from A Personal History of the American Theatre / Spalding Gray
The Death of Broadway / Thomas M. Disch
Gay Theatre / Charles Ludlam
"Dolly" Goes Away / Frank Rich
Heidi Chronicled / Wendy Wasserstein
The Chitlin Circuit / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Problem Play / David Mamet
from A Director Prepares: Terror / Anne Bogart
Kushner on Miller / Tony Kushner.
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