Robert Brustein
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300115772
- eISBN:
- 9780300135367
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300115772.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This book offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. The author examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and ...
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This book offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. The author examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world. He relates our theater to our society in a manner that reminds us why the performing arts matter. The book records the author's thinking on the important issues “roiling the national soul” at the start of the twenty-first century. His opening section explores the connections between theater and society, theater and politics, and theater and religion, and is followed by reviews of such landmark productions as The Producers and Spamalot, Long Day's Journey into Night and King Lear. In his final section, the author reflects on people and places of importance in the world of theater today.Less
This book offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. The author examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world. He relates our theater to our society in a manner that reminds us why the performing arts matter. The book records the author's thinking on the important issues “roiling the national soul” at the start of the twenty-first century. His opening section explores the connections between theater and society, theater and politics, and theater and religion, and is followed by reviews of such landmark productions as The Producers and Spamalot, Long Day's Journey into Night and King Lear. In his final section, the author reflects on people and places of importance in the world of theater today.
