...Emanuel Azenberg Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 An Interview: Producing Broadway Musicals Emanuel Azenberg 94 The large Broadway musical, the one that costs three-quarters of a million dollars, is now economically unfeasible. It used...

...Rebecca Ann Rugg © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Gary Beach and Roger Bart in The Producers. Photo: Paul Kolnick Rebecca Ann Rugg What It Used to Be Nostalgia and the State of the Broadway Musical “Springtime for Hitler and Germany!” A surprise...

...Ben Cameron Copyright © THEATER 1980 1980 Theater in New York Benton Broadway Ben Cameron Richard Gere and David Dukes in Bent. Broadway seasons are inevitably marked however, Sherman's...

...Michael Bertin Copyright © THEATER 1984 1984 THEATER IN NEW.YORK “Riding on a Smile and a Shoeshine”. . The Broadway Salesman...

...Martin Gottfried Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Why is Broadway Music So Bad? Martin Gottfried 82 It has become commonplace to say that musicals are America's greatest contribution to the theater and yet musicologists persist...

...David DeRose Slouching Towards Broadway: Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind r/ premiere to coiricide with the nationwide A Lze ofthe illind opens...

... Long Wharfs artistic director for eleven years. In that time he has directed regularly: at the Long Wharf; at other regional theaters, and in New York. He has received two Tony Award nominations for his work on Broadway (The National Health and Ah! Wilderness) and has won the Vernon Rice Award for his...

...Mark Bly; Joel Schechter In 1963, the Tyrone Guthrie Theater was founded in Minneapolis as an alternative to Broadway and its commercialism. Despite occasional financial setbacks, Tyrone Guthrie and his British proteges gradually established it as a major classical repertory theater. Guthrie died...

... of millions of people all over the way and be an alternative to country.” Broadway.” - Joseph Papp Andre Gregory in a speech delivered...

... that separates us from our predecessors. Perhaps this is why I felt strangely consoled when, in reading Stephen J. Bot- toms’s Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement (2004), I came across Village Voice...

... before the show’s Broadway opening, causing producers to whine. As the story goes, the money people have driven intelligence out of town. Reading intelligent, cantankerous, tenacious voices arguing over the meaning of a play seems as luxurious as having our own national theater. No longer...

... website Breitbart.com framed the story politically (“Obama’s The Public Theater, New Favorite Broadway Show ‘Hamilton’ Seeks ‘Non-­white’ Actors, Possibly Violating New York, 2015. York Law while the left-­leaning...

... York. Had it not occurred our musical theatre might well have been very different. Today our musical theatre is nearly moribund, but fifty years ago, when Sissle and Blake performed on and wrote for the stage, Broadway was a vibrant place ablaze with the fires of ambition...

..., the theatre has always been "awful", and the bane of serious playwrights in Oslo, Paris and New York. But while the run of Boulevarde or Broadway drama has traditionally been mediocre, never, it seems, has morale been as low as it is today. I suspect that it's the theatre's current lack of elan...

... restorations, while the actual new ones are small. Manhattan is now too expensive for young direc- tors. Many downtown theaters I used to attend have become discos on Second Avenue, or on Fourteenth Street. The geographical theater centers are now Broadway, the Public Theater, and the Brooklyn...

... Am referring to the death of Fo’s play on Broadway. He was somewhere, I am still not aware of it. True, I have not read the quoted in the press as saying he rather approved of a Broadway pro- Italian original, or seen any other production. But shouldn’t I have duction on the grounds...

..., Feb. 25, ’88).He ig- (Broadway audiences, the Press, Equi- ensued in the wake of this theatrical nores the implications of Churchill’s ty regulations),before unveiling his own casualty involves its own, uninten- deliberate infiltration of the theatrical (the Producer: Joseph Papp, the Direc...

..., it might have quickly reached the usual oblivion, to a groundswell of attention that followed hard upon Declan Donnellan’s production last year at Britain’s National Theatre. Suddenly it became flavor-of-the-year, just in time to attract the attention of all those producers-off-Broadway, regional...

...Michael Feingold Copyright 1968 by yale/theatre 1968 A Revolution Wasted by Michael Feingold Tom Paine by Paul Foster was produced Off-Off Broadway really is to the by William Dorr and Michael White at American theatre what Paine...

...Michael Feingold A Revolution Wasted by Michael Feingold Tom Paine by Paul Foster was produced Off-Off Broadway really is to the by William Dorr and Michael White at American theatre what Paine is to Stage 73, New York, after having pre...