The sixties, center stage : mainstream and popular performances in a turbulent decade / edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal.
Harding, James Martin, 1958- editor.; Rosenthal, Cindy, 1954- editor.
2017
PN2189 .S59 2017 (Mapit)
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Title The sixties, center stage : mainstream and popular performances in a turbulent decade / edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal.
ISBN 9780472053360 (paperback)
0472053361 (paperback)
9780472073368 (hardcover)
0472073362 (hardcover)
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Language English
Description viii, 400 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number PN2189 .S59 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.0909046
Summary "The Sixties, Center Stage offers rich insights into the innovative and provocative political underpinnings of mainstream and popular performances in the 1960s. While much critical attention has been focused on experimental and radical theater of the period, the essays confirm that mainstream performances not only merit more scholarly attention than they have received, but through serious examination provide an important key to understanding the 1960s as a period. The introduction provides a broad overview of the social, political, and cultural contexts of artistic practices in mainstream theater from the mid-fifties to mid-seventies. Readers will find detailed examinations of the mainstream's surprising attention to craft and innovation; to the rich exchange between European and American theatres; to the rise of regional theaters; and finally, to popular cultural performances that pushed the conceptual boundaries of mainstream institutions. The book looks afresh at productions of Hair, Cabaret, Raisin in the Sun, and Fiddler on the Roof, as well as German theater, and performances outside the Democratic National Convention of 1968"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Harding, James Martin, 1958- editor.
Rosenthal, Cindy, 1954- editor.
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Introduction. Pulling the curtain on false dichotomies : the importance of the theatrical mainstream in the 1960s / James H. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal
Re-visioning Broadway. The feminine mystique goes to Broadway : housewives in 1960s musical theater / Stacy Wolf ; The long shadow of A raisin in the sun / Harvey Young ; Selling the ensemble : Hair, Oh! Calcutta!, and commercial theater in the late 1960s / Stephen Bottoms
Theater artists' transformations and innovations : stagecraft, playwriting, and acting in the 1960s. Boris Aronson, the Jewish avant-garde, and the transition to Broadway / Alisa Solomon ; Paradigm for new play development : the Albee-Barr-Wilder playwrights unit / David A. Crespy ; From Stanislavski to Grotowski : rethinking 1960s acting training and practice / Cindy Rosenthal
The European effect : cultural gravitas in popular theater. Theater of the sixties : the German connection / Marvin Carlson ; "The best contemporary theatre is international" : plays in translation on and off Broadway in the 1960s / Neil Blackadder ; How France canonized the American avant-garde / Kate Bredeson
The rise of regional theaters. Alphabet soup : the acronymization of the American theater / Dorothy Chansky ; Twin cities theater in the 1960s : negotiating the commercial/experimental divide / Susannah Engstrom ; Making art and making money : arena stage in the 1960s / Donatella Galella
Popular demonstrations and innovative performances. The high road, the low road, and the "many roads to truth" : Richard Schechner, Peter Brook, and the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1966 production of US / James M. Harding
Sixties secrets : the Beatles, Yoko Ono, and the borders of experiment in 1960s rock music performance / Graham White ; Mass performance, outside and inside the Democratic National Convention, August 1968 / Kimberly Jannarone
Afterword. Looking back at a funhouse mirror : reflections on experimental theater in the sixties / James M. Harding.

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