The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade Edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal https://www.press.umich.edu/9286618/sixties_center_stage University of Michigan Press, 2017 Contents Introduction Pulling the Curtain on False Dichotomies: e Importance of the eatrical Mainstream in the 1960s James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal 3 I. Re-visioning Broadway e Feminine Mystique Goes to Broadway: Housewives in 1960s Musical eater Stacy Wolf 27 e Long Shadow of A Raisin in the Sun Harvey Young 52 Selling the Ensemble: Hair, Oh! Calcutta!, and Commercial eater in the Late 1960s Stephen Bottoms 71 II. eater Artists’ Transformations and Innovations: Stagecraſt, Playwriting, and Acting in the 1960s Boris Aronson, the Jewish Avant-Garde, and the Transition to Broadway Alisa Solomon 97 Paradigm for New Play Development: e Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit David A. Crespy 117 From Stanislavski to Grotowski: Rethinking 1960s Acting Training and Practice Cindy Rosenthal 138 III. e European Effect: Cultural Gravitas in Popular eater eater of the Sixties: e German Connection Marvin Carlson 165
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The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade Edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal https://www.press.umich.edu/9286618/sixties_center_stage University of Michigan Press, 2017
Contents
Introduction
Pulling the Curtain on False Dichotomies: The Importance of the Theatrical Mainstream in the 1960s
James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal 3
I. Re-visioning Broadway
The Feminine Mystique Goes to Broadway: Housewives in 1960s Musical Theater
Stacy Wolf 27
The Long Shadow of A Raisin in the Sun Harvey Young
52
Selling the Ensemble: Hair, Oh! Calcutta!, and Commercial Theater in the Late 1960s
Stephen Bottoms 71
II. Theater Artists’ Transformations and Innovations: Stagecraft, Playwriting, and Acting in the 1960s
Boris Aronson, the Jewish Avant-Garde, and the Transition to Broadway Alisa Solomon
97
Paradigm for New Play Development: The Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit
David A. Crespy 117
From Stanislavski to Grotowski: Rethinking 1960s Acting Training and Practice
Cindy Rosenthal 138
III. The European Effect: Cultural Gravitas in Popular Theater
Theater of the Sixties: The German Connection Marvin Carlson
The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade Edited by James M. Harding and Cindy Rosenthal https://www.press.umich.edu/9286618/sixties_center_stage University of Michigan Press, 2017
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“The Best Contemporary Theatre Is International”: Plays in Translation on and off Broadway in the 1960s
Neil Blackadder 180
How France Canonized the American Avant-Garde Kate Bredeson
200
IV. The Rise of Regional Theaters
Alphabet Soup: The Acronymization of the American Theater Dorothy Chansky
231
Twin Cities Theater in the 1960s: Negotiating the Commercial/Experimental Divide
Susannah Engstrom 251
Making Art and Making Money: Arena Stage in the 1960s Donatella Galella
273
V. Popular Demonstrations and Innovative Performances
The High Road, the Low Road, and the “Many Roads to Truth”: Richard Schechner, Peter Brook, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1966 Production of US
James M. Harding 295
Sixties Secrets: The Beatles, Yoko Ono, and the Borders of Experiment in 1960s Rock Music Performance
Graham White 315
Mass Performance, outside and inside the Democratic National Convention, August 1968
Kimberly Jannarone 341
Afterword
Looking Back at a Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Experimental Theater in the Sixties
