The Actor Speaks: Actors Discuss Their Experiences and Careers

by Joan Jeffri

Overview

The book is based on a series of unique oral histories and interviews with actors who love the stage first and foremost. Editor Joan Jeffri focuses on the experience of actors in their training and career development, and on their relationships to society, culture, and institutions. Although names like Alan Alda are recognizable from other media, these actors all grew up being nourished by the stage. Their stories show that theatre is everywhere in this country—not only on Broadway, but also in churches, in schools, in regions, and in towns. These interviews and a thorough introduction provide a history of the American theatre for almost a century—the Yiddish theatre, the WPA, the start of regional theatre, off- and off-off-Broadway, and the Great White Way—through the voices of those who lived it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313290978
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/14/1994
Series:	Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies , #52
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

JOAN JEFFRI is Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture, which she founded in 1985, at Columbia University, Director of Columbia's Master's Degree Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College and former Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management and Law. Her books include The Painter Speaks (Greenwood Press, 1993), The Craftsperson Speaks (Greenwood Press, 1992)

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ARTISTHELP: The Artist's Guide to Work-Related Human and Social Services and The Emerging Arts: Management, Survival and Growth (Praeger, 1980).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction by Andrew Foster
Alan Alda
Mary Alice
Philip Bosco
Al Carmines
Pat Carroll
Miriam Kressyn
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Susan Nussbaum
John Randolph
Jason Robards
Mercedes Ruehl
B.D. Wong
Bibliography
Index