Play by Play,9780879109899

Play by Play

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ISBN13: 9780879109899
ISBN10: 0879109890
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Limelight Editions
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Summary

This collection begins with a brave and piercing appraisal of the state of current theater criticism, in a section Kalb characteristically calls "Critical Mess." He goes on to revisit the work of Samuel Beckett, as performed in well-meaning efforts to bring it to a new, wider (TV) audience; to consider today's political theater, particularly in the flourishing form of one-person shows; to explore the theatrical landscape of a reunited Germany, where the Berliner Ensemble is no longer a showcase for the East, and finally to cover what's going on back home in New York - everything from The Lion King and Dame Edna to plays of David Mamet and Arthur Miller (new and old) and to the latest trends in the Broadway musical.

Author Biography

Jonathan Kalb, the head of the theater department at New York's Hunter College, has been drama critic for The Village Voice and New York Press and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Theater and American Theatre. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the artist Julie Heffernan, and two sons, Oliver and Sam

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Part I---Critical Mess
The Death (and Life) of American Theater Criticism: Advice to the Young Critic
3(20)
The Critic in Extremis
23(6)
The Critic as Humanist
29(12)
Part II---Something the Dust Said
Stardust Melancholy
41(14)
Krap's First Tape
55(6)
The Last Biography?
61(6)
Suffering Fools
67(8)
Send in the Clown
75(8)
Part III---American Dreams
Documentary Solo Performance: The Politics of the Mirrored Self
83(24)
The Gospel According to Billy
107(10)
Robert Wilson's 21st Century Academy
117(10)
Dayzed
127(6)
Susan and Bob in Bed
133(8)
Part IV---German Questions
Marathon Mensch
141(12)
To B.E. or Not To B.E.
153(8)
You Can Go Home Again
161(6)
Ghosts & The Dead Man
167(8)
Part V---Press Passes
Mameticisms
175(18)
The Unsinkable Avant-Garde
193(24)
Arthur Miller and the Barbecue Grill
217(16)
Musicals and Other Broadway Blandishments
233(20)
The March of the New
253(13)
Acknowledgments 266(1)
Index 267

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