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...Laurence Shyer Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 American Absurd: Two Nonsense Plays by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, and Ring Lardner Introduction by Laurence Shyer The next few pages stray from the declared subject of this issue...

...George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Something New George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind An Announcer Comes Before the Curtain: (He stops) Old Man: Fifty years it is since first she gave...

... in the 1930s, many of these original texts were not credited to specific authors. There is a growing body of American drama now — a drama caught between book covers — taking the form of documentary: the work of Anna Deavere Smith, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, and Moisés Kaufman, for example...

... Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Index to Volume IX (1977-78) Akalaitis, JoAnne, "Scenes from Dressed Like an Egg" (Notes), Vol. 9, no. 2, Kaufman, George S. and Ryskind, Morrie, Something New (Play), Vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 1978, p. 110...

..., with casts that included Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, Donald Ogden Stewart, George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly . The first...

... Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Index (continued) Books Recently Received Shyer, Laurence, "American Absurd: Two Nonsense Plays by George S. Kaufman Anton Chekhov's Plays Trans. and Ed. by Eugene...

... develop a new performance area for musical theater. All very en- produced Agatha Christie, Kaufman and Hart, and Edward couraging. Then, with equal pride, the statement lets us know Albee. Shakespeare, no surprise, heads...

... with Gershwin, Kaufman, and Astaire. audaciously intelligent productions of Electra, Gaunt and delicately mannish, Fiona Shaw The Good Person ofSzechwan, Hedda Gabler, and appeared before us like a specter in occult dis- most recently, a controversial Richard II. (A few tress. The production was not so...

... by Lloyd Kaufman in which a s P E N c E R/G I E R s DO R F lesbian relationship between Juliet and the part of German history in their work. Toepfer Nurse is “made clear in a soft-core porn historicizes the development of theatrical dance sequence”) and ((hard-corepornographic adap...

..., I don t know why, but somehow I think you re necessary. 5 I m curious about your behind-­the-s­cenes relationship with the other comedians given that you were an oddball, wildcard figure in the alt-­com scene. The next Andy Kaufman was a phrase that critics had floated about you, presumably...

... productions it cries out for cleansing treatment, a ruthless staging choices of van Hove’s “rattling decon- stripping of the clichés and stereotypes that struction” as “tricks,” while the Daily News’s have built up like barnacles over the decades, David Kaufman said that “the entire fiasco has from...

... sad was that I was fired before my work Saks, who directs all the Neil Simon plays, has real technique. He ever saw an audience. I wanted to shape the show during perfor- can get the laugh. A husband comes into the Plaza Suite with a mances out of town the way George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart...

... related these to the tactics Baras. and values of his own comedian heroes—chiefly Lenny Bruce and Andy Kaufman— began studying the demeanors of preachers in New York’s Pentecostal churches, and found himself with an act whose power no one could have...

... erent parts of the world. Ursula Kaufman This fl eeting encounter between a traveler and familiar strang- ers, who had taken her on many a wondrous journey before, at the crossroads between real and mythic time and space was more poignant than the actual perfor- mance. Tierno Bokar...

... erent parts of the world. Ursula Kaufman This fl eeting encounter between a traveler and familiar strang- ers, who had taken her on many a wondrous journey before, at the crossroads between real and mythic time and space was more poignant than the actual perfor- mance. Tierno Bokar...

... erent parts of the world. Ursula Kaufman This fl eeting encounter between a traveler and familiar strang- ers, who had taken her on many a wondrous journey before, at the crossroads between real and mythic time and space was more poignant than the actual perfor- mance. Tierno Bokar...

... erent parts of the world. Ursula Kaufman This fl eeting encounter between a traveler and familiar strang- ers, who had taken her on many a wondrous journey before, at the crossroads between real and mythic time and space was more poignant than the actual perfor- mance. Tierno Bokar...

... to the mid-­1990s. Beginning in 1994, the Tricycle The- atre in London produced “tribunal plays,” employing documentary techniques. In the States, the tradition was mostly dormant from the Federal Theater Project days until The Laramie Project, collectively written by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic...

..., in which Auslander joins several other scholars in considering how performance documentation can incite an unruly desire to experience a performance by embodying it. Citing karaoke, Gui- tar Hero, and YouTube recreations of Andy Kaufman s Mighty Mouse routine, Aus- lander argues that this array...