Playing With Canons [Perfect Paperback]

Martin Denton; editor (Author), Martin Denton (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2006

Playing With Canons brings together 18 plays by some of indie theatre s most exciting playwrights into a single volume celebrating the enduring power and spirit of classic literature and drama. These remarkable plays reshape familiar material in challenging, innovative, and unexpected fashion, pushing these timeless works into the 21st century in resoundingly resonant high style.

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About the Author

Martin Denton is the founder and executive director of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., and the founder, editor, and chief reviewer for the popular Internet website nytheatre.com. He has edited all seven volumes of the Plays and Playwrights anthologies, which have featured the works of more than eight dozen emerging indie playwrights (watch for the eighth volume in this annual series, Plays and Playwrights 2007). Denton is also the creator of the nytheatrecast, New York s first regularly scheduled theatre podcast offering original content.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (October 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967023483
• ISBN-13: 978-0967023489
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,833,094 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the founder and editor of nytheatre.com, a website that provides lots of information about the New York City theatre scene, from Broadway to off-Broadway to the exciting indie theater sector. It was as editor of nytheatre.com that I became interested in bringing new American plays by emerging or unpublished authors to the attention of readers in the "Plays and Playwrights" anthology series. I've been working on nytheatre.com since 1997. I'm also the producer of nytheatrecast, the first weekly podcast series about NYC theatre. I'm a member of the American Theatre Critics Association; I probably see about 300 shows every year. Last year I was proud to receive (with NYTE's Managing Director) the Stewardship Award from the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, in recognition of my work on nytheatre.com and as editor of the "Plays and Playwrights" books.