The American Theatre Wing Presents: The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them (Applause Books)

The American Theatre Wing Presents: The Play That Changed My Life: America's Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them (Applause Books)

Ben Hodges (Editor)
$18.99
Publication Date: November 1st, 2009
Publisher:
Applause Books
ISBN:
9781557837400
Pages:
178

Description

Nineteen of today's greatest playwrights-including Doug Wright, Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, and Sarah Ruhl-contribute to this book about the transformative power of theatre.

What was the play that changed your life? What was the play that inspired you; that showed you something entirely new; that was so thrilling or surprising, breathtaking or poignant, that you were never the same? Nineteen of today's most gifted playwrights respond in this most revealing and personal book.

From Edward Albee's 1935 visit to New York's Hippodrome Theatre to see Jimmy Durante (and an elephant) in Rodgers and Hart's Jumbo to Diana Son's twelfth-grade field trip in 1983 to see Diane Venora play Hamlet at the Public Theater, America's foremost playwrights share their stories. Also included here are pieces by Christopher Durang, David Henry Hwang, Sarah Ruhl, A. R. Gurney, John Patrick Shanley, Doug Wright, and more.

About the Author

Best known for creating the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards(R), now presented with the Broadway League, the American Theatre Wing is dedicated to celebrating excellence and supporting education in the theatre through a wide variety of programs and activities. Ben Hodges (New York City) is the editor of the Theatre World series, which received a Special Tony Honor in 2001.

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