Theatre Journal 1960-1974

Writing theatre criticism for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, Michael Smith lucked into an extraordinarily dynamic period in American theatre. Broadway-style commercialism was stifling innovation in the early sixties. In response, a new alternative theatre emerged in lofts, storefronts, churches, and coffeehouses radiating out from Greenwich Village. This generous selection of reviews from Smith's "theatre journal" columns in The Voice gives a sense of the range, seriousness, and energy of the brilliantly imaginative artists he encountered in more than a decade of intensive theatre-going,

Product details

• Authors: Michael Townsend Smith
• Publisher: Fast Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780988716278
• ISBN: 978-0-9887162-7-8
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet