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Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater

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Availability:In StockContributor:Carey PerloffPublish date:02/10/15Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:City Lights BooksISBN-13:9781931404143ISBN-10:1931404143UPC:9781931404143Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, Theater, Women in BusinessBook Topic:Direction & ProductionSize:8.40 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC9GBXWSA7
Carey Perloff, former Artistic Director of San Francisco's legendary American Conservatory Theater, pens a lively and revealing memoir, and delivers a provocative and impassioned manifesto for the role of live theater in today's technology-infused world.

Perloff's personal and professional journey--her life as a woman in a male-dominated profession, as a wife and mother, a playwright, director, producer, arts advocate, and citizen in a city erupting with enormous change--is a compelling, entertaining story for anyone interested in how theater gets made. She offers a behind-the-scenes perspective, including her intimate working experiences with well-known actors, directors, and writers, including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Robert Wilson, David Strathairn, and Olympia Dukakis.

Whether reminiscing about her turbulent first years as a young woman taking over an insolvent theater in crisis and transforming it into a thriving, world-class performance space, or ruminating on the potential for its future, Perloff takes on critical questions about arts education, cultural literacy, gender disparity, leadership, and power.

Carey Perloff is an award-winning playwright, theater director, and the artistic director of the American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco since 1992.
Language:EnglishPublisher:City Lights BooksISBN-13:9781931404143ISBN-10:1931404143UPC:9781931404143Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, Theater, Women in BusinessBook Topic:Direction & ProductionSize:8.40 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC9GBXWSA7
Carey Perloff is an award-winning playwright, theater director, and the Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco since 1992. She also teaches and directs in the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program. Perloff is a recipient of France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the National Corporate Theatre Fund's 2009 Artistic Achievement Award. In 2011 Perloff won the Blanche and Irving Laurie Theater Visions Award for her play HIGHER.
Publisher: City Lights Books

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