Great North American Stage Directors Volume 3

Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lloyd Richards

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2024
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-04517-0 (ISBN)

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This volume chronicles the lives and artistry of Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, and Lloyd Richards. Their commitment to staging new works, which often focused on the experiences of immigrant and working-class families, significantly expanded the scope and possibilities of American theatre across the 20th century. It illuminates too their collaborations with a range of innovative theatre artists, including Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Marlon Brando, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and August Wilson.

The Great North American Stage Directors series provides an authoritative account of the art of directing in North America by examining the work oftwenty-four major practitioners from the late 19th century to the present. Each of the eight volumes examines three directors and offers an overview of their practices, theoretical ideas, and contributions to modern theatre. The studies chart the life and work of each director, placing his or her achievement in the context of other important theatre practitioners and broader social history. Written by a team of leading experts, the series presents the genealogy of directing in North America while simultaneously chronicling crucial trends and championing contemporary interpretation.

Harvey Young is Professor of Theatre at Boston University, USA. His research on the performance and experience of race has been widely published in academic journals, profiled in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has published seven books, including Embodying Black Experience, winner of “Book of the Year” awards from the National Communication Association and the American Society for Theatre Research and, most recently, Black Theater is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater (coauthored with Mecca Zabriskie). He is the current editor of Theatre Survey.

List of Illustrations
Series Introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Living the American Dream, Harvey Young (Boston University, USA)

Elia Kazan
1 Gadget Makes American Theatre, Harvey Young (Boston University, USA)

Jerome Robbins
2 Choreography as Directing: On Jerome Robbins, Julia Foulkes (New School, USA)
3 Jerome Robbins: A Hide-and-Seek Directorial Life, Stuart J. Hecht (Boston College, USA)

Lloyd Richards
4 Lloyd Richards in the Classroom, cfrancis blackchild (University of Miami, USA)
5 The Performative Tradition of Lloyd Richards, Everett C. Dixon (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
6 Mentoring August: Lloyd Richards and August Wilson, Sandra G. Shannon (Howard University, USA)

Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Great Stage Directors
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Professor James Peck
Zusatzinfo	13 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-350-04517-9 / 1350045179
ISBN-13	978-1-350-04517-0 / 9781350045170
Zustand	Neuware