Play That Changed My Life America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them

Name: Play That Changed My Life America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them
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ISBN: 9781557837400

ISBN-10: 1557837406

ISBN-13: 9781557837400

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ben Hodges

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Twenty of today's greatest playwrights - including Tony Kushner, Christopher Durang, and Suzan-Lori Parks - contribute to this book about the transformative power of theatre. "To this day, I can call up in my mind's eye flashes of the show... This was the moment when I first realized what theatre could do, how visceral it could be. The story was alien, yet comprehensible. It was artifice, of course, yet so real. It was disturbing, yet thrilling. This was the night when the theatre became my true passion (goodbye Boy Scouts; goodbye stamp collecting; goodbye Snoopy) and only four years later, before I had even graduated college, my profession." - from the foreword by Howard Sherman, writing…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 11/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Introduction




Little Rock




On Reading and Seeing Plays




Distilled to Its Essence




The Incipient Existentialist and the Broadway Musical




Pasadena and Beyond. The New York Theater




Memories




Back in Buffalo




Plays That Changed My Life




"Tiens, il est neuf heures"




Two Plays, Two Lives




Indelicately Unbalanced




A Playwright's Search for the Spiritual Father




Succotash on Ice




Everything Changes: Your Life




The Baltimore Waltz and the plays of my childhood




Standing in the Wings




I Will Follow




Adrienne Kennedy




Bruce and Charles



Acknowledgments


The American Theatre Wing