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Author Sweet, Jeffrey, 1950- author.

Title The O'Neill : the transformation of modern American theater / Jeffrey Sweet ; photographs edited by Preston Whiteway ; forewords by Michael Douglas and Meryl Streep
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 319 pages)
Contents Beginnings -- Finding the way -- White & Richards -- National Theater of the Deaf -- Critics and what to do with them -- National Theater Institute -- National Playwrights Conference -- the Richards years -- August Wilson in Waterford -- Cabaret and performance conference -- National Music Theater Conference -- National Puppetry Conference -- Changing of the guard -- National Playwrights Conference -- The Goldberg years -- Beyond Waterford -- O'Neill & The O'Neill -- The O'Neill today & tomorrow -- Bibliographic essay
Summary As the old ways of the commercial theatre were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, and Christopher Durang) and developing works that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes and Tony Awards. Along the way, it collaborated with then-unknown performers (like Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, Courtney Vance, and Angela Bassett) and inspired Robert Redford in his creation of the Sundance Institute. This is the story of a theatrical laboratory, a place that transformed American theatre, film and television
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Eugene O'Neill Theater Center -- History
SUBJECT Eugene O'Neill Theater Center fast
Subject Theaters -- Connecticut -- Waterford -- History -- 20th century
Theaters -- Connecticut -- Waterford -- History -- 21st century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Theaters
Connecticut -- Waterford
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300206937
0300206933