The O'Neill : the transformation of modern American theater / Jeffrey Sweet ; photographs edited by Preston Whiteway ; forewords by Michael Douglas and Meryl Streep.
As the old ways of the commercial theatre were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, and Christopher Dur...
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Table of Contents:
- Beginnings
- Finding the way
- White & Richards
- National Theater of the Deaf
- Critics and what to do with them
- National Theater Institute
- National Playwrights Conference
- the Richards years
- August Wilson in Waterford
- Cabaret and performance conference
- National Music Theater Conference
- National Puppetry Conference
- Changing of the guard
- National Playwrights Conference
- The Goldberg years
- Beyond Waterford
- O'Neill & The O'Neill
- The O'Neill today & tomorrow
- Bibliographic essay.