Reimagining American TheatreWide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art. |
Contents
FOREWORD REIMAGINING THE AMERICAN STAGE | 3 |
REIMAGINING THE DRAMA | 19 |
PostNaturalist Triumph Balm in Gilead | 33 |
The Hit of the Building The World According to Me | 40 |
The Shape of the New Geniuses Edmond | 49 |
Transcultural Blends The Gospel at Colonus | 57 |
The Best Play of Which Year? A Walk in the Woods | 65 |
Running on Empty Miracolo dAmore | 72 |
Kid Coriolanus Coriolanus | 159 |
Phèdre with Pilaf and Pekoe Tea Phaedra Britannica | 167 |
Jewish Metaphysics The Tenth Man | 175 |
The Hero of the Nursery Peer Gynt | 182 |
Transforming Actors and Star Personalities The Death | 186 |
PostModern Prophecies Woyzeck Baal | 194 |
How to Serve Shakespeare On Directing Shakespeare | 201 |
INTRODUCTION REIMAGINING THE PROCESS | 209 |
An Evening of Last Rites Jerome Robbins Broadway | 74 |
Orpheus Condescending Orpheus Descending | 81 |
The Havels and HaveNots Some | 89 |
Soured Grapes The Grapes of Wrath | 96 |
ShePlays American Style Machinal Abundance | 104 |
INTRODUCTION REIMAGINING THE CLASSICS | 115 |
Three Years after 1984 1984 | 123 |
Headline Hunting The Front Page | 130 |
The Longest Journey The Mahabharata | 136 |
The Definitive Production A Midsummer Nights Dream | 143 |
The Ultimate Broadway Transfer Our Town | 151 |
The Legacy of the Group Theatre | 217 |
Theatre and the Individual Talent | 225 |
An Actor Prepares The 1988 Democratic National | 234 |
A Theatrical Declaration of Independence | 240 |
Dreams and Hardback Chairs | 248 |
Arts Wars | 257 |
As the Globe Turns | 272 |
Politics and Theatre | 280 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 293 |
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