Stage Dust is an assortment of notices, columns, profiles, and essays which describe the performances, plays, personalities, trends and controversies that preoccupied the cultural scene in America in the last decade of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the theatre. It contains personal observations about some of the seminal performances that took place in the 1990s and the artists that were prominent during that period, culled from a variety of periodical sources including The New York Times, The L.A.Times, American Theatre Magazine, The Guardian (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), The Observer (UK) and London Times (UK). Using brief linking commentary, it also fills in the necessary foreground and background of the items under review.
Recenzijos
This is the first volume in the publisher's series Studies and Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment and it is to be hoped that subsequent publications, edited by the admirable Anthony Slide, prove to be as stimulating as this one. For Marowitz is as much at home describing the work of Lenny Bruce as that of Antonin Arnaud, or Jerzy Grotowsky and Howard Stern. His book reviews encompassing subjects as diverse as Noel Coward, John Barrymore, Lord Alfred Douglas and Lola Montez, are a joy. * The Stage *
Part 1 On the Stage
Chapter 2 Going Round Again: Carousel
Chapter 3
McKellan's Richard III: Junk Shakespeare
Chapter 4 The Main Event: Rent
Chapter 5 Marcel Marceau
Chapter 6 "Non Merci": Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Chapter 7 The Return of Marivaux: Changes of the Heart
Chapter 8 The Next Big
One: Ragtime
Chapter 9 ...And All That Jazz!: Chicago
Chapter 10 A Brace of
Wildes: An Ideal Husband
Chapter 11 Pinter Goes Home: The Homecoming
Chapter
12 He Who Plays the Prince: Branagh's Hamlet
Chapter 13 Sadean Sex Fantasy:
Quills
Chapter 14 Corporate Follies: How to Succeed in Business without
Really Trying
Chapter 15 Annette Bening's Hedda: Once over Lightly
Chapter 16
Rodgers, Hammerstein & Hart: The King and I
Chapter 17 Pearls, Pigs, and
Platitudes: Foreman on the Cutting Edge
Chapter 18 "Hyde" and Chic: Jekyll &
Hyde
Chapter 19 Coward's Courage: Design for Living
Chapter 20 Christopher
Plummer's Barrymore: The Great Profile in Caricature
Chapter 21 Make Believe:
Ah Wilderness, by Eugene O'Neill
Chapter 22 Avignon Theatre Festival: 1998
Chapter 23 The Berliner Ensemble Packs It In
Chapter 24 Defend Us: Monsters
of Grace
Chapter 25 "Showboat" for the '90's
Chapter 26 Counting the House:
Arms and the Man
Chapter 27 Desperate Gambles: Dealer's Choice, by Patrick
Marber
Chapter 28 Ibsen for Dummies: Enemy of the People
Chapter 29 A Class
Act: Strindberg and Langella: The Father
Chapter 30 The Wilde Bunch: Gross
Indecency: The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Chapter 31 Balm for the Mind: Collected
Stories
Chapter 32 The Wearing Down of the Green: The Cripple of Inishman
Chapter 33 The Shrew: Reclaiming The Taming
Chapter 34 Shakespeare by
Numbers: Measure for Measure and Midsummer Night's Dream Part 35 Dramatis
Personae
Chapter 36 Artaud: A Centennial Reassessment
Chapter 37 Nicol
Williamson: Danger Man
Chapter 38 Remembering Lenny Bruce
Chapter 39 The
Exoneration of Elia Kazan
Chapter 40 Robert Lewis: An Appreciation
Chapter 41
Jerzy Grotowsky: An Appreciation
Chapter 42 Howard Stern and the Body Politic
Chapter 43 John Gielgud: The Last Edwardian
Chapter 44 Tom Stoppard: A Little
Light Music
Chapter 45 Rachel Rosenthal: Endangered Species Part 46 On the
Page
Chapter 47 Jacob Adler: A Life on the Stage, Translated and with
Commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld
Chapter 48 The Smart Set: George Jean Nathan
and H. L. Mencken, by Thomas Quinn Curtiss
Chapter 49 Lola Montez: A Life, by
Bruce Seymour
Chapter 50 True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the
Actor, by David Mamet
Chapter 51 Bernard Shaw Theatrics, by Dan H. Laurence
Chapter 52 Noel Coward: A Biography, by Philip Hoare
Chapter 53 John
Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor, by Michael A. Morrison
Chapter 54 Method
Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style, by Steve Vineberg
Chapter 55 Life, the Movie, by Neal Gabler
Chapter 56 Laughing Matters, by
Larry Gelbart
Chapter 57 Coleridge: "Darker Reflections"
Chapter 58 Still
Alive: An Autobiographical Essay, by Jan Kott
Chapter 59 Shakespeare: A Life,
by Park Honan
Chapter 60 How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway?: Writing on
Theater, by John Heilpern
Chapter 61 The Essential Groucho, by Stefan Kanfer
Chapter 62 Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, by Douglas Murray
Chapter 63 Dream Catcher, by Margaret Salinger Part 64 Think Pieces
Chapter
65 Two Cheers for Broadway
Chapter 66 "Were You There When They Crucified Our
Play?"
Chapter 67 This Wooden "O"
Chapter 68 What's in a Name?
Chapter 69
Private World, Public Words
Chapter 70 "It's a Barnum & Bailey World"
Chapter
71 Pimps and Parasites
Chapter 72 Blinded by Science
Chapter 73 The Idiot Box
Chapter 74 Deathless Cyrano
Chapter 75 The Critics' Lot: U.S. vs. U.K.
Chapter 76 Actors and Stars
Chapter 77 Stealing the Show
Chapter 78 The Case
for a National Theater
Chapter 79 Drought of the Imagination
Charles Marowitz is currently the artistic director of the Malibu Stage Company and has been co-director with Peter Brook of the Royal Shakespeare Company Experimental Group. His directorial credits include several West End productions including premieres of work by Saul Bellow, Joe Orton and Sam Shepard. His free adaptation of Shakespeare have been published world-wide and collected in the volume, The Marowitz Shakespeare. Marowitz has been the lead Drama Critic for the L.A. Herald Examiner and he has contributed to a wide variety of publications. He is also an experienced acting teacher having conducted Professional Acting Seminars in Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Wiesabden, Oslo and Stockholm as well as colleges, universities and drama-schools throughout England.
