TY - BOOK AU - Crespy,David Allison ED - Project Muse. TI - Richard Barr: the playwright's producer T2 - Theater in the Americas SN - 9780809331413 AV - PN2287.B22 C84 2013 U1 - 792.02/32092B 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Barr, Richard. KW - Theatrical producers and directors KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780809331413/ ER -