The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner (Loa #203)

by John Lahr

Book Overview

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."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530690
• ISBN13: 9781598530698
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 850 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.1" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher