The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner - ed. Laurence Senelick

Written by ed. Laurence Senelick
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The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner
Edited by Laurence Senelick
Read by Eva Wilhelm
mp3 - 64kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 101
Total Play time: 34:46:48

Anthology #370
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Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America’s living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody, editor Laurence Senelick presents writers with the special knack “to distill both the immediate experience and the recollected impression, to draw the reader into the charmed circle and conjure up what has already vanished.” Through the words of playwrights and critics, actors and directors, and others behind the footlights, the entertainments and high artistic strivings of successive eras come vividly, sometimes tumultuously, to life.
Observers from Washington Irving and Fanny Trollope to Walt Whitman and Mark Twain evoke the world of the nineteenth-century playhouse in all its raucous vitality. Henry James confesses his early enthusiasm for playgoing; Willa Cather reviews provincial productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Antony and Cleopatra. The increasing diversity and ambition of the American theater is reflected in Hutchins Hapgood’s account of New York’s Yiddish theaters at the turn of the century, Carl Van Vechten’s review of the Sicilian actress Mimi Aguglia, Alain Locke’s comments on the emerging African-American theater in the 1920s, and Ezra Pound’s response to James Joyce’s play Exiles and theatrical modernism. Enthusiasts for the New Stagecraft, such as Lee Simonson and Djuna Barnes, are matched by champions of pop culture such as Gilbert Seldes and Fred Allen. S. J. Perelman lampoons Clifford Odets; Edmund Wilson acclaims Minsky’s Burlesque; Harold Clurman explains Stanislavski’s Method; Gore Vidal dissects the compromises of commercial playwriting. A host of playwrights—among them Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Tony Kushner—are joined by such renowned critics as Stark Young, George Jean Nathan, Brooks Atkinson, and Eric Bentley.

Stories in this collection:

01) Foreword by John Lithgow
02) Introduction by Laurence Senelick
03) From “Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.” by Washington Irving
04) Prologue for the Opening of the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia by Charles Sprague
05) From “History of the American Theatre” by William Dunlap
06) From “Domestic Manners of the Americans” by Frances Trollope
07) Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples by Alexis de Tocqueville
08) On Anna Cora Mowatt’s Fashion by Edgar Allan Poe
09) The Gladiator—Mr. Forrest—Acting by Walt Whitman
10) Miserable State of the Stage by Walt Whitman
11) The Old Bowery by Walt Whitman
12) The Astor Place Riot by Philip Hone
13) From “Mimic Life; or, Before and Behind the Curtain” by Anna Cora Mowatt
14) The Menken by Mark Twain
15) The Model Artists by Mark Twain
16) The Minstrel Show by Mark Twain
17) From “The Journals” by Charles King Newcomb
18) About Nudity in Theatres by Olive Logan
19) From “The Genial Showman: The Church in the Theatre and the Theatre in the Church” by Edward P. Hingston
20) Notes on the Theatres by Henry James
21) From “A Small Boy and Others” by Henry James
22) Clara Morris by by Alan Dale
23) The Art of Edwin Booth: Hamlet by William Winter
24) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Willa Cather
25) Antony and Cleopatra (1) by Willa Cather
26) Antony and Cleopatra (2) by Willa Cather
27) From “The Spirit of the Ghetto; Theatres, Actors and Audience” by Hutchins Hapgood
28) Melodrama by Rollin Lynde Hartt
29) My Most Successful Play by Lottie Blair Parker
30) Stage Struck by Channing Pollock
31) Some American Dramatic Material by Stark Young
32) Hamlet by Stark Young
33) The Illusion of the First Time in Drama by William Gillette
34) Mr. James Joyce and the Modern Stage by Ezra Pound
35) Mrs. Fiske on Ibsen the Popular by Alexander Woollcott
36) Frank Wedekind by James G. Huneker
37) The Painter and the Stage by Lee Simonson
38) Mimi Aguglia as Salome by Carl Van Vechten
39) The Jest by Dorothy Parker
40) Mr. Belasco Explains by Ludwig Lewisohn
41) Susan Glaspell by Ludwig Lewisohn
42) Abie’s Irish Rose Review and Bulletins by Robert Benchley
43) I Gaspiri- “The Upholsterers”: A Drama in Three Acts by Ring Lardner
44) The Dæmonic in the American Theatre by Gilbert Seldes
45) Burlesque Shows by Edmund Wilson
46) The Negro and the American Stage by Alain Locke
47) The Old Trouper by Don Marquis
48) The Audience Emotion by George Jean Nathan
49) On Vaudeville by George Jean Nathan
50) Eugene O’Neill by George Jean Nathan
51) The Days of Jig Cook by Djuna Barnes
52) Alla Nazimova by Djuna Barnes
53) James A. and Katharine Herne by Hamlin Garland
54) Cain’s Warehouse by Sidney Skolsky
55) Trouble With the Angels by Langston Hughes
56) From “Of Time and the River” by Thomas Wolfe
57) Waiting for Santy by S. J. Perelman
58) Our Town by Brooks Atkinson
59) Standards in Drama Criticism by Brooks Atkinson
60) The Man Who Came to Dinner with George Kaufman Directing by Morton Eustis
61) From Arena by Hallie Flanagan
62) Some Thoughts on Playwriting by Thornton Wilder
63) Audience Tomorrow: Preview in New Guinea by Elia Kazan
64) A Streetcar Called Success by Mary McCarthy
65) Tennessee Williams by Harold Clurman
66) The Famous “Method” by Harold Clurman
67) From “The Theatre of the Thirties” by Harold Clurman
68) Even As You and I by John Mason Brown
69) Terry Helburn by Frances Parkinson Keyes
70) Folklore on Forty-Seventh Street by Eric Bentley
71) From “Bentley on Brecht” by Eric Bentley
72) The American Theater by Arthur Miller
73) The Life and Death of Vaudeville by Fred Allen
74) Barns by Walter Kerr
75) Author and Director: A Delicate Situation by Tennessee Williams
76) Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet by Gore Vidal
77) The Commercialites by Gore Vidal
78) Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House by Gore Vidal
79) “Me Tink Me Hear Sounds in de Night” by Lorraine Hansberry
80) Which Theater is the Absurd One? by Edward Albee
81) The Becks’ Living Theatre by Charles L. Mee, Jr.
82) Boredom in the Theatre by John Simon
83) El Teatro Campesino by Luis Valdéz
84) Marat/Sade/Artaud by Susan Sontag
85) A Short Statement on Street Theatre by Ed Bullins
86) Notes on the New Theater by Elizabeth Hardwick
87) From “The Season” by William Goldman
88) From “Notes on A Cowardly Lion” by John Lahr
89) From “Run-Through: A Memoir” by John Houseman
90) From “A Personal History of the American Theatre” by Spalding Gray
91) The Death of Broadway by Thomas M. Disch
92) Gay Theatre by Charles Ludlam
93) “Dolly” Goes Away by Frank Rich
94) Heidi Chronicled by Wendy Wasserstein
95) The Chitlin Circuit by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
96) The Problem Play by David Mamet
97) From “A Director Prepares: Terror” by Anne Bogart
98) Kushner on Miller by Tony Kushner