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Drop dead : performance in crisis, 1970s New York /

Hillary Miller's Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New Yorkoffers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city's financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City's performing arts community suffered great...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Hillary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Colección:Performance works.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: City in crisis, performance in Crisis
  • Planned shrinkage and the new theater : Ellen Stewart, La Mama e.t.c., and Julie Bovasso
  • TKTS and "lost audience" anxiety : fiscal crisis Times Square
  • Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps and the "inevitability of interdependency"
  • The theater of poverty : Everyman in Coney Island
  • How the public became a public : Joseph Papp's Civic Building
  • The Brooklyn syndrome : BAM and outer-borough arts
  • Conclusion. the myth of self-sufficiency.