Richard Barr
Crespy, David Allison.
Richard Barr the playwright's producer / [electronic resource] : David A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (320 p.) - Theater in the Americas .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "you have to hock your house: the story of a producer" -- Privilege with a price: Washington, Princeton, and early theatre efforts -- Playing with martians: stage and screen with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre -- A theatrical warrior: Lieutenant Richard Barr -- Learning the director's craft: stock, Broadway, and City Center -- Broadway beginnings: Ethyl Waters, Ruth Draper, and theatrical collage -- The zoo story: discovering Edward Albee -- Producers at work: on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway -- Experimenting with Edward Malcolm to all over -- Hocking the house: Seascape to Sweeney Todd -- Brightening Broadway's lights: Barr's legacy to the American theatre -- Afterword / Edward Albee.
9780809331413 0809331411
Barr, Richard.
Theatrical producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2287.B22 / C84 2013
792.02/32092 B
Richard Barr the playwright's producer / [electronic resource] : David A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (320 p.) - Theater in the Americas .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "you have to hock your house: the story of a producer" -- Privilege with a price: Washington, Princeton, and early theatre efforts -- Playing with martians: stage and screen with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre -- A theatrical warrior: Lieutenant Richard Barr -- Learning the director's craft: stock, Broadway, and City Center -- Broadway beginnings: Ethyl Waters, Ruth Draper, and theatrical collage -- The zoo story: discovering Edward Albee -- Producers at work: on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway -- Experimenting with Edward Malcolm to all over -- Hocking the house: Seascape to Sweeney Todd -- Brightening Broadway's lights: Barr's legacy to the American theatre -- Afterword / Edward Albee.
9780809331413 0809331411
Barr, Richard.
Theatrical producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2287.B22 / C84 2013
792.02/32092 B