Author: Langley, Stephen

Publication Year: 1975

Media Type: Book

Summary:

The purpose of bringing together in one volume several dozen of the theatre's most productive leaders is to seek an experiential definition of theatrical producing and arts management, although with cognizance that definitive answers concerning the contemporary, living theatre are impossible to acquire. (Preface). The individual authors made these remarks as guest lecturers at the performing arts management classes of Stephen Langley at Brooklyn College during spring 1973.

Abstract:

The purpose of bringing together in one volume several dozen of the theatre's most productive leaders is to seek an experiential definition of theatrical producing and arts management, although with cognizance that definitive answers concerning the contemporary, living theatre are impossible to acquire. (Preface). The individual authors made these remarks as guest lecturers at the performing arts management classes of Stephen Langley at Brooklyn College during spring 1973.

CONTENTS
Grassroots theatre:
     Akila Couloumbis.
     Marketa Kimbrell.
     Vantile Whitfield.

Educational theatre:
     Anthony Reid.
     Norris Houghton.
     John Houseman.

Resident theatre:
     Zelda Fichandler.
     Adrian Hall.
     Peter Zeisler.

Off and Off Off Broadway theatre:
     Theodore Mann.
     Paul Libin.
     Ellen Stewart.

Broadway theatre:
     Alexander H. Cohen.
     Morton Gottlieb.
     Warren Caro.

The cultural centers:
     Norman Singer.
     Sir Rudolf Bing.
     Harvey Lichtenstein.

Government, business and the foundations as producers:
     Alvin H. Reiss.
     G. A. McLellan.
     Stephen Benedict.

The predominance of the New York theatre: Three viewpoints:
     James M. Nederlander.
     Robert Kalfin.
     Herman Krawitz.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Performing Arts Organizations