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A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
"One of a handful of great American plays -- it belongs in the inner circle, along with Death of a Salesman, Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Glass Menagerie " Washington Post, on A Raisin in the Sun By the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city. Barely five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Hansberry gave us an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice. These two plays remain milestones in the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination and the heart. "Rich and warm and funny and varied ... beautifully written." -- Los Angeles Times, on The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window With an Introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
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Letters to a Young Actor (Art of Mentoring)
The founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and a drama critic for more than thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. Letters to a Young Actor not only inspires the multitudes of struggling dramatists out pounding the pavement, but also reinvigorates the very state of the art of acting itself..
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Chekhov: The Major Plays (Signet Classics)
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The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933
Who were the millions of Germans who supported the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, and why did they support it? In this provocative book, William Brustein argues that a careful analysis of pre-1933 Nazi Party membership data shows that Nazi followers were far more representative of German society as a whole than has been believed and that they supported the party not because of Hitler`s charisma or anti-Semitism but because the Nazis addressed their economic interests better than did the other political parties..
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The Old Glory: Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno
Winner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and Melville In the three plays in The Old Glory--Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno--the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century. The result is a mythical, nightmare history of three centuries in America. In Endecott and the Red Cross, Hawthorne's Puritan governor, horrified by his colony's high living, declares, "Everything in America will be Bible, blood and iron. / England will no longer exist." The other two plays, based on Hawthorne's My Kinsman, Major Molineux and Melville's Benito Cereno, take up the themes of parricide and independence: one in Boston on the eve of the Revolutionary War, the other on a merchant ship in the Caribbean in the early nineteenth century. The plays were first performed in 1964, when the poet Randall Jarrell wrote: "I have never seen a better American play than Benito Cereno, the major play in Robert Lowell's The Old Glory . . . The play is a masterpiece of imaginative knowledge." .
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The English Channel: An Original Play About Shakespeare
"To the theatre in this country Robert Brustein has long been indispensable His voice, his reactions are always eloquent, stimulating "--Susan Sontag "Mr. Brustein's voice is, to me, like water in the desert--he is harsh, and funny, and insightful, and most important, fearless."--David Mamet "Robert Brustein is the rarest of rare amphibians: a powerful theatre practitioner who is also a powerful critic.... Savvy, fearless, opinionated, and fathomlessly curious, he is at once steeped in the classics and alert to the most recent tremors on the cultural seismograph."--Stephen Greenblatt.
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Millennial Stages: Essays and Reviews 2001-2005
A major figure in the world of theater as critic, playwright, scholar, teacher, director, actor, and producer, Robert Brustein offers a unique perspective on the American stage and its artists. In this wise, witty, and wide-ranging collection of recent writings, Brustein examines crucial issues relating to theater in the post-9/11 years, analyzing specific plays, emerging and established performers, and theatrical production throughout the world. Brustein relates our theater to our society in a manner that reminds us why the performing arts matter.
Millennial Stages records Brustein’s thinking on the important issues “roiling the national soul” at the start of the twenty-first century. His opening section explores the connections between theater and society, theater and politics, and theater and religion, and it is followed by reviews of such landmark productions as The Producers and Spamalot, Long Day’s Journey into Night and King Lear. In his final section, Brustein reflects on people and places of importance in the world of theater today, including Marlon Brando and Arthur Miller and Australia and South Africa. .
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The Theatre of Revolt: Studies in modern drama from Ibsen to Genet
Focusing on Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet, Mr. Brustein uncovers the roots of the modern theatre in the soil of the rebellion they cultivated..
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Everett Raymond Kinstler: The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture, 1942-1962
Everette Raymond Kinstler's portraits of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Jimmy Cagney, and Katharine Hepburn may be familiar to art lovers, but few realize that he honed his craft as a high school dropout, inking and sketching comics for pulps like Dime Mystery. This book is the first to examine the popular culture phase of Kinstler’s career, and it includes an extended biography liberally spiced with anecdotes, reminiscences, and commentary by the artist. More than 300 illustrations — many reproduced from originals in Kinstler’s archives — portray his lively early work, including double-page pulp spreads, paperback novel covers, and panels from Classics Illustrated..
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