Download or read book Eva Le Gallienne s Civic Repertory Plays written by Eva Le Gallienne and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eva Le Gallienne written by Robert A. Schanke and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-04-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Le Gallienne's father once explained to an interviewer that "biography is only interesting if true. All should be told," he argued. "If a man is really great, he is great enough to carry off his follies." This volume, though not the typical biography of an actress, is all-inclusive. It includes information on her achievements and awards as well as on her failures and scandals. The reviews and bibliographic entries are not limited to the New York media, but rather are national in scope. Even a cursory examination of the book reveals Le Gallienne's struggle as an artist. Novelist and poet May Sarton has called her "an actress of genius," a woman who communicates "a vision of life." Those who explore this book will be prompted to agree. -- Preface.
Download or read book Eva Le Gallienne written by Helen Sheehy and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1996 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of one of the great actors of the 20th century is viewed in this complex biography, including her protean career and courageous and controversial private life. The actress was dazzling on stage, touring at 18 with Ethel Barrymore and a major Broadway star at 21. The actress profoundly influenced the American theatre in her pioneering role as founder and head of the Civic Repertory Theatre (it became the model for Off Broadway) where she produced, directed, and starred in some 40 plays. 110 photos.
Download or read book Shattered Applause written by Robert A Schanke and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive biography of the actress film critic Rex Reed called “a national treasure” draws on Robert A. Schanke’s interviews and correspondence not only with Eva Le Gallienne but also with more than one hundred of her colleagues and friends, including Glenda Jackson, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Peter Falk, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Farley Granger, Jane Alexander, Uta Hagen, and Rosemary Harris. Forty-two illustrations offer highlights of Le Gallienne’s many notable performances in such plays as Hedda Gabler, Liliom, The Cherry Orchard, Peter Pan, Camille, Mary Stuart, The Royal Family,and The Dream Watcher. Behind her public role as a famous actress and as the founding and maintaining force of the first civic repertory theatre in the United States, Eva Le Gallienne led a private life complicated by her identity as a lesbian. Schanke considers Le Gallienne’s sexuality and how it played a role in the struggles, defeats, and triumphs that combined to inspire her greatness. Shattered Applause, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, tells a fascinating story that also serves as a barometer of the changing values, tastes, and attitudes of American society.
Download or read book Eva Le Gallienne written by Helen Sheehy and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of one of the great actors of the 20th century is viewed in this complex biography, including her protean career and courageous and controversial private life. The actress was dazzling on stage, touring at 18 with Ethel Barrymore and a major Broadway star at 21. The actress profoundly influenced the American theatre in her pioneering role as founder and head of the Civic Repertory Theatre (it became the model for Off Broadway) where she produced, directed, and starred in some 40 plays. 110 photos.
Download or read book Arts Decoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ibsen in America written by Robert A. Schanke and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dramatic freaks," "a cataract of vapid talk," "an offence to taste"--such were the epithets coined by American critics in the late 19th century about the dramas of the "Bard of Bacteria," Henrik Ibsen. By the 1970s, however, attitudes had reversed. When Washington's Kennedy Center opened its new Eisenhower Theater, they premiered with Ibsen's A Doll's House. This shift in one century from rejection to acceptance, from avant-garde to establishment status, did not occur without considerable resistance. Schanke analyzes this evolution from iconoclast to icon. With actresses' essays and interviews about the playwright, index, bibliography, and illustrations of Ibsen productions.
Download or read book Drama Magazine written by Charles Hubbard Sergei and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays Players Playhouses written by Irma Kraft and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Naked Individual written by Cheryl Crawford and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Drama Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadway Plays and Musicals written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the American theater, this is the first single-volume book to cover all of the activities on Broadway between 1919 and 2007. More than 14,000 productions are briefly described, including hundreds of plays, musicals, revivals, and specialty programs. Entries include famous and forgotten works, designed to give a complete picture of Broadway's history and development, its evolution since the early twentieth century, and its rise to unparalleled prominence in the world of American theater. The productions are identified in terms of plot, cast, personnel, critical reaction, and significance in the history of New York theater and culture. In addition to a chronological list of all Broadway productions between 1919 and 2007, the book also includes approximately 600 important productions performed on Broadway before 1919.
Download or read book At 33 written by Eva Le Gallienne and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A charming autobiography is 'At 33' by Eva Le Gallienne, the brief, but none the less interesting, account of the life of a young woman who has know excitement almost from her birth, and who has seen one of her great dreams come to fruition, the New York Civic Repertory Theatre. She still dreams, and is ambitious to see her theatre plans carried much further. Her book is full of stories and personalities--she knew Bernhardt and Duse both well, among many other people--and she writes with modesty and simplicity of a career that has been full of color and violent ups-and-downs." - from the column 'The Literary Landscape' by Herschel Brickell in The North American Review, Vol. 237, No. 3 (Mar., 1934), pp. 284.
