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The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade
Edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal
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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.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Pulling the Curtain on False Dichotomies
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I. Re-visioning Broadway
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The Feminine Mystique Goes to Broadway
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The Long Shadow of A Raisin in the Sun
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Selling the Ensemble
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II. Theater Artists’ Transformations and Innovations
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Boris Aronson, the Jewish Avant-Garde, and the Transition to Broadway
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Paradigm for New Play Development
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From Stanislavski to Grotowski
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III. The European Effect
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Theater of the Sixties
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“The Best Contemporary Theatre Is International”
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How France Canonized the American Avant-Garde
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IV. The Rise of Regional Theaters
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Alphabet Soup
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Twin Cities Theater in the 1960s
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Making Art and Making Money
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V. Popular Demonstrations and Innovative Performances
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The High Road, the Low Road, and the “Many Roads to Truth”
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Sixties Secrets
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Mass Performance, outside and inside the Democratic National Convention, August 1968
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Afterword
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Looking Back at a Funhouse Mirror
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2017
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-07336-8 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12260-8 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-05336-0 (paper)