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The play that changed my life : America's foremost playwrights on the plays that influenced them
- Title
- The play that changed my life : America's foremost playwrights on the plays that influenced them / edited by Ben Hodges ; introduction by Paula Vogel.
- Publication
- New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books : American Theatre Wing, 2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-826 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Text | Request in advance | MWER 10-2639 | Offsite |
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- Description
- xxi, 173 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book offers a peek into the theatrical influences of some of the nation's 20th century dramatists. The book is filled with tributes, memories, anecdotes and other insights that connect past to present.
- Alternative Title
- American Theatre Wing presents
- Subjects
- Dramatists, American
- Drama > Technique
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Playwriting
- Biographies
- Authorship
- 1900-1999
- Drama > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Authors, American > Books and reading
- Authors, American > 20th century > Books and reading
- Dramatists, American > 20th century > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- David Auburn : Little Rock -- Jon Robin Baitz : on reading and seeing plays -- Nilo Cruz : distilled to its essence -- Christopher Durang : the incipient existentialist and the Broadway musical -- Horton Foote : Pasadena and beyond, the New York theatre -- Charles Fuller : memories -- A.R. Gurney : back in Buffalo -- Beth Henley : plays that changed my life -- Tina Howe : "tiens, il est neuf heures" -- David Henry Hwang : two plays, two lives -- David Ives : indelicately unbalanced -- Donald Margulies : a playwright's search for the spiritual father -- Lynn Nottage : succotash on ice -- Sarah Ruhl : the Baltimore waltz and the plays of my childhood -- John Patrick Shanley : standing in the wings -- Diana Son : I will follow -- Regina Taylor : Adrienne Kennedy -- Doug Wright : Bruce and Charles.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-826
- ISBN
- 9781557837400
- 1557837406
- LCCN
- 2009032452
- OCLC
- 310398817
- Title
- The play that changed my life : America's foremost playwrights on the plays that influenced them / edited by Ben Hodges ; introduction by Paula Vogel.
- Imprint
- New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books : American Theatre Wing, 2009.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Hodges, Ben (Benjamin A.), editor.Vogel, Paula, writer of introduction.American Theatre Wing.
- Note
- At head of title: American Theatre Wing presents
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-826MWER 10-2639