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To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater

To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary B. RobinsonSeries:Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance StudiesPublish date:2024-04-05Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032580913ISBN-10:1032580917UPC:9781032580913Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Theater, Individual DirectorBook Topic:Direction & Production, History & CriticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCA83AKYKA

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country.

Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032580913ISBN-10:1032580917UPC:9781032580913Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Theater, Individual DirectorBook Topic:Direction & Production, History & CriticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCA83AKYKA

Mary B. Robinson headed an undergraduate directing program at New York University (under the auspices of Playwrights Horizons Theater School) from 1999-2014. She has directed 70 productions at non-profit theaters (including Arena Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and Seattle Repertory Company), from 1981 to the present. She was one of 50 directors (along with Zelda Fichandler) featured in American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2008). Author of Directing Plays, Directing People: A Collaborative Art, published by Smith & Kraus in 2012.


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