Author: LaHoud, John

Publication Year: 1976

Media Type: Report

Summary:

This report is an overview of the development of American theatre with an emphasis on the professional resident theatre around the country with the beginning of Ford Foundation support in 1958.

Abstract:

This report is an overview of the development of American theatre with an emphasis on the professional resident theatre around the country with the beginning of Ford Foundation support in 1958.

CONTENTS
Backdrop.
     Before the Decline.

The Resident Theater.
     Do the Sectors Mean It?
     The Turning Point.
     Audiences and the Earnings Gap.

Individual Artists.
     Directors.
     Playwrights.
     Designers.
     Administrators.
     Critics.
     International Exchanges.
     New American Plays.

Experimental Theaters.
     Three of the Genre.
     Enter Peter Brook.

Minority Theaters.

Communication.

The Stage Tomorrow.

Electronic Theater by Nancy Boggs.
     The Educational Connection.
     Joining Forces.

Ford Foundation Assistance to American Theater.
     Theater Companies.
     Supporting Institutions.
     Social Development.
     Individual Awards and Foundation-Managed Projects.
     Television Drama.

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Categories: Private Sector