Compiled by Mel Gussow, this collection of sideshow American and international theatre includes: Deeply American Roots (Sam Shepard) * The Man Who Made Theatre Ridiculous (Charles Ludlam) * From the City Streets, a Poet of the Stage (Miguel Pinero) * The Clark Kent of Modern Theatre (Robert Wilson) * Speaks the Language of Illusion (Martha Clarke) * The Lonely World of Displaced Persons (Lanford Wilson) * A Virtuoso Who Specializes in Everything (Michael Gambon) * Actress, Clown, and Social Critic (Whoopi Goldberg) * Comedy, Tragedy and Mystical Fantasy (Peter Brook) * Celebrating the Fallen World (Richard Foreman).
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Editorial Reviews
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One of the most perceptive voices in American theater, New York Times drama critic Gussow writes with a sense of theatrical history and a passionate engagement about theater as a vehicle for raising social consciousness. In this bracing collection of his reviews and essays from the mid-1970s to the present, he ferrets out adventurous playwrights and directors who have revitalized the American stage, such as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Albert Innaurato and Robert Wilson. His reviews are pithy and fair, zeroing in on a production's strengths and weaknesses. Although his appraisals may strike some readers as overly generous toward self-styled avant-garde pieces such as Richard Foreman's semi-absurdist extravaganzas or performance artist Karen Finley's confrontational politics, Gussow's openness to new directions enables him to spot and explicate innovations such as Shepard's psychodramas, Eric Overmyer's linguistic pyrotechnics and director Peter Brook's experimental adaptations of classics. This roundup displays tremendous diversity, ranging from reviews of works by Chekhov, Shakespeare, Pinter and Harvey Fierstein to one-person shows (Whoopi Goldberg, Calvin Trillin), street theater and circuses.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Well known for his theatrical reviews in the New York Times, the author is noteworthy for being the first to review new off-Broadway dramas, musicals, revues, and performance pieces and has often been the first critic to recognize the talents of new playwrights, directors, and performers. Carefully chosen from his thousands of columns, the individual pieces in this remarkable collection include essays reflecting on the lives of such stage luminaries as Ruth Gordon and on directors and playwrights including Tennessee Williams, Christopher Durang, Harvey Fierstein, and Lanford Wilson. Also featured are reviews of classic revivals and the circus, puppet theater, and one-person shows by Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Cosby, among others. Gussow makes each word count as he takes us through the past 20 years of theatrical milestones. Recommended as a valuable addition to theater arts collections.AHoward E. Miller, St. Louis Science Ctr.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- A Different Kind of Intimacy: The Collected Writings of Karen Finley by Karen Finley in Front Matter
- Conversations with Miller by Mel Gussow in Front Matter
- Pinter at 70: A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists) by Lois Gordon in Front Matter
- Intermediality in Theatre and Performance (Themes in Theatre 2) by Freda Chapple in Back Matter
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