Richard Barr [electronic resource] : the playwright's producer / David A. Crespy ; with a foreword by Edward Albee.
Material type: TextSeries: Theater in the AmericasPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)ISBN:- 9780809331413
- 0809331411
- 792.02/32092 B 23
- PN2287.B22 C84 2013
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.
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