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    by M. Barranger ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. ... Read more

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  • The Group Theatre

    Passion, Politics, and Performance in the Depression Era

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and interviews by the foremost theatre scholar of the time period, Helen Chinoy. ... Read more

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  • Margaret Webster

    A Life in the Theater

    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    "In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read ... Read more

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